First sale on Amazon

Soon after returning from deployment, I got a box from the post office with a letter saying "uh ... yeah, we accidentally trashed your package -- but here's what we found."

Though they'd lost a couple of my Japanese books, they weren't anything I couldn't replace. Included among what they returned, however, was an IT book that they must have thought was mine.

After sitting on it for some time, thinking that the United States Postal Service might come looking for it (you never know), I finally made use of it -- by selling it on Amazon.com.

So thank you, post office, for bashing my box to smithereens. Your collective mistakes actually netted me a profit.