And busily keeping my small town post office in business!

I have three or four invoices at NGC which have stayed in "Received" status for about a week, Modern, Modern Special and World Modern.

But, instead of letting NGC deal with those, what do I do? I went to the post office in the sleet today, early, before it got too slippery, and submitted FIVE MORE invoices. A couple Modern Special, including my REPLACEMENT 10th Anniversary Platinum Eagles from the Mint, a Modern or two, and yet another World Modern -- how I am coming up with these World coins all of a sudden is a mystery even to me.

I had a couple other packages to mail, so of course my Post Mistress is THRILLED because she needs the activity to help make her numbers, and Registered Mail is especially helpful for her figures apparently.

I live in a very small town you see, actually in a village within a town, and my rural post office is a hole in the wall sort of place, a place that even shuts down for two hours during the day, from 1-3pm. How quaint, huh? Rarely more than one employee on at any given time, and that's usually the friendly Post Mistress, who was so concerned about me venturing out on the ice in my little car, she had me call her when I got home so she knew I made it safely (she knows I live on the side of the mountain). How sweet, huh?

So, I do my part to add to NGC's workload, or backlog, whatever the case may be, and to keep my village post office in business as long as possible, as more and more USPS retail locations across the country are closed - I sure don't want that to happen here.

Am I a grading junkie? It gets addictive to want to get your coins slabbed, doesn't it? I mean to clean out a safe deposit box, and take coin after coin out of the OGP and add it to the submission form to NGC, tedious, time consuming, but SO EXCITING! What will I get?

ALL THOSE EMPTY OGP boxes though, what is one to do? I've seen people sell some on eBay, cheaply, and they actually sell. Is that odd? Should I keep them with the COA to go with the slabbed coins? Hmmm. If I sold a slabbed coin on eBay, would selling it with the OGP and COA be "value added" and make it more desirable? I mean it is already certified, but having the original paperwork is sort of like having the maintenance records on a used car or on a house you bought.

I wonder...