Cards and zip codes and general mail services observations

Dear Faithful Friends,

We love getting cards, and packets in the mail. We love it. We take notice of your messages, and names, and well wishes and it is a huge blessing and an encouragement. Life changes everyday, and apparently sometimes zip codes do to. Well, things can sometimes be confusing for several reasons, but, if I want to make an improvement of a confusing situation, then I have to give out a notice. I pray my efforts here will help untangle at least some confusion. HA! 

When we first moved here, I asked "what is the zip code for my address" - I got several kinds of response. The "official" response from the post office was different from the mail that was coming to our home address. The internet's information was different from both of the previous response (of course we all know that we can rely on the web, right? uhm, not really). Several local friends said it doesn't matter, we don't use it, it changes, we aren't sure, just put the subdivision address and city and the postal delivery system understands and works through it, etc.

Okay. I believe I have credible information now (10 years of living here, mind you). Our mailing address zip code is 1639. If you have an old prayer letter, prayer card, old information concerning our mailing address, just update the zip code to 1639.

Mail sometimes gets to us - - sometimes they don't. It is what it is. If you sent us a check - - contact me personally (just kidding). If you would like to send us a greeting card and do not want to go the "old fashioned" way of "snail mail" with the potential of it being lost or undelivered - - feel free to send it to our sending church's missions office. They will recognize that the card is intended for us, they will scan it and email us a scanned image of the card.

We appreciate it. We say, thank you for thinking of us, and more importantly praying for us. This also saves money, too. NOW, we like it either way, and we do not prefer one way over the other, although there is that slight edge of opening a card that is actually mailed directly to our home address and miraculously delivered. But please know - it is the thought that counts and we feel so honored to be remembered and thought of and prayed over - Thank you! We know that it is God who put that in your hearts to do and we praise and honor God in all this! Thank you for being a good and faithful servant of God! Folks like you are blessing and we really appreciate your good work. We sure need encouraged along the way, and your card sending is a breath of fresh air, or a brook along the path (I am not even trying to be poetic, but it hits me like that, just saying). Do click on the "about us" tab and check out our mailing info, if you would like to see that information. But do feel free to mail our sending church office any greeting card or even letters, etc. for us, and our dear friends will scan it and email it to us. The church office address is also found in that "about us" tab.

Thank you for being a blessing!

Bro. Bill