Really Putting the "Super Freaking Slow" in "Snail Mail"

On November 16th, Lorraine let me know that she had mailed my Hanukah present. By the time I moved out of my old flat on December 1st, I had yet to receive it, so I let my former roommates know to keep an eye out for it. Through December I sent them a couple more messages, and even went to the post office to see what was taking such a long time. I had sent my mother a package, but she had received it in just over a week, so I was quite concerned for my Hanukah present. By the time I got back from Christmas break, I was fairly resigned to the idea that the postal system had lost it, to my great sadness. However, on the 14th I got a message from my former roommates - something had arrived in the mail for me. Excited, I went over to find two issues of a Canadian publishing magazine that I had also thought lost in the mail. With hope renewed that  the package was on its way, I went back home... and two hours later received another message - there was something else now at the flat for me! 

Two days shy of two whole months, my Hanukah package had arrived. 

It was so nicely wrapped I almost didn't want to open it...

The rules for our Hanukah presents is that they have to be handmade (this year, my dad helped me make a cutting board for Lorraine). The chocolates were obviously just a bonus (perhaps because we usually play for chocolate when we play with the dreidel on Hanukah?)

A gorgeous modified books, containing the covers and first pages from a number of different literary works.

There was also some of the original book left in at the end.

A gorgeous present from a wonderful godmother :)

Hopefully this means my christmas package from my dad has been similarly delayed - and for those wishing to send me gifts in the future, it might be a better idea to just order them off a UK site and have them sent to me from inside the country, as the snail mail between the UK and Canada seems to be much faster in one direction than the other.