Humming "No post today"

Seems that our new postman is utterly overworked now that a few of his colleagues headed off on vacation, because we got no post since last Thursday. Today my neighbour heard the familiar sound of a postcar, dashed out onto the street, and there he was, our precious postman, having already turned the car to go into hiding again. Thanks heavens our neighbour is a rather resolute person and ordered him to immediately turn back and deliver what was meant to be delivered. As things turned out he had disposed of all the mailshots and most of the subscribed magazines because ten hours of daily work weren´t enough to deliver all that waste mail. Son still awaits the already paid tickets for the Metal Train to Wacken which have been sent off from Germany last Thursday, I hope those were not sent on the premature path of scrap paper, because that would be a faux pas with severe consequences.
Postman´s colleagues of the parcel service work quite different, they will put the parcels next to your door whether you are at home or not. Last week I found a 1300 Euro food processor at my front door, two days later an expensive monitor. No one was at home on those days to sign the delivery note, no one brought in the parcels. I would not even have noticed in time my food processor had already been delivered in case someone had taken a liking to an abandoned parcel. That delivery guy better give our house a wide berth, or I´ll cut him down to size zero the moment I see him!
And now I´m off to the first concert of Salzburg Festival. Strenuous days are looming ahead, so many concerts, so many operas, and lots of free or reduced tickets!