Ask Elnora--About Book Deliveries??? Lenora Worth

Hello, my lovelies. It's been a crazy week in Elnoraville. I decided I'd take a few days off to celebrate meeting some major deadlines. I had plans to lounge about, stroll through the garden and catch up my reading. But Monday, Big Daddy and I went to lunch and went shopping. After that I needed a nap! Tuesday, I went to visit a dear friend and rejoiced with her when her seriously injured husband got the go-ahead to be moved to Houston for rehabiliation from a spine injury. Wednesday I signed copies of a self-published devotional book that I wrote with a nice lady here in town. (With proceeds to go to Volunteers of America). And Thursday, I enjoyed a trip about an hour east of here with my writing friends Winnie Griggs and Liz Talley. We talked shop while Big Daddy served as our chauffeur. We met up with writers Beth Cornelison, Alyssia Kirkhart and Keri Reynolds at the Lincolon Parish Library. We did a panel discussion and held a booksigning. (Thanks to Erin Cole for setting this up.) It was fun to discuss plotting books and it was great to take pictures with readers. We had dinner and drove home and this is what was at our front door.

Yes, my November "The Life of Riley" books arrived (too late for me to put one in the basket we gave away at the libary function!) But this is exactly how they looked when we opened the box. Okay, so I'm thinking the delivery person was either an angry orangutan or maybe a really angry reader. I've never seen books delivered in quite this manner. It is close to Halloween, but this trick was no treat. I checked each and every one of my babies and they were all in pretty good shape considering they were in big box with no padding to hold them in place. So what do you think the story is behind the books? Did they run out of boxest to fit them? Or did they just toss them in the box and say "Good Luck." Let's discuss--bad deliveries!!!! Have you ever received something in the mail that was battered or damaged?? Have you ever had mail go missing? Elnora is curious. What is it with bad deliveries????