So a couple of days ago I make a call home to make sure that my family got the box with the Christmas gifts that I'd sent them and they did. However they asked if I'd gotten the package that they sent to me, which I told them that I had not, which made them curious since it was supposed to be delivered on Saturday the 19'th. I told them that it probably was just late and would be delivered after the weekend was over since a lot of packages get shipped during Christmas and it can be hard to keep track of all of them. Fast forward to today, the 24'th and I still haven't gotten the package and when they check the tracking number on the package, they confirm that it was delivered indeed on the 19'th to my apartment building and left in the mail room.

Hm, that doesn't bode well. Maybe the building Super picked it up and took it into the office? So I go talk to him and he never moved any package or even saw the package sitting in the mail room when he made his rounds that afternoon. I call the post office up and confirm through their package tracker that the postman brought it and delivered it around 9 AM in the morning when mail is usually delivered and left it in the mail room instead of in front of my door because it was taking too long to deliver individual packages in a seven story building and the building had never had issues with theft before. Suffice to say, he said that the tracker said it was there and in the three hour period between when the package was delivered and the Super showed up it disappeared.

Much as I didn't want to believe it, someone apparently stole it.

Now I'm old enough to not mind if I don't get anything for Christmas as I can just buy myself whatever anyway, but what unmitigated gall some people have. To steal what is clearly someone's Christmas package from the mail room and for what? So that they can ruin the feelings of my younger brothers and sisters who got me some treats and made me some crafts that they poured hours of time into making when they find out that I didn't get my package and will never see what they got me let alone use it? To make my mom upset that the special batches of extra cookies she made for me were a waste of her time?

Some people say that Christmas is a time for miracles and I still believe that, but as much as we like to forget about the hardships of the world for a few days, for all the good that random strangers can do, for all the charity and whatnot, this only reminded me what scum humanity can be on the whole as well. It reminded me that I'm but one person that this has happened to and even if it doesn't ruin my Christmas, there are hundreds of families that this happens to ever year. Some lowlife breaking into their house stealing their gifts from under the tree, kyping gifts from people's front porches or mailboxes. For all the good that people do, there's always THAT group that remind us of just how fucked up that this world really is at the core.