48     SPECIAL DELIVERY 

KEY CONCEPTS:  swiftness, movement, haste, hope, messenger, activity, news, speedy and positive conclusions, jealousy, arrows of love, pregnancy, delivery

MESSAGE:  Just ponder all the mail in that patriotically-festooned jeep trundling down the motorway—everything from unwanted bills to confessions of sizzling desire from secret sweethearts.  News arrives with impartial swiftness.  Any way you stamp it, a Special Delivery is rolling your way.   Perhaps you’ll welcome a hot-pink envelope bearing a gift card from Auntie Maybelline in Malibu?  Or maybe a fat lottery check?  Prepare for big news. 

A postal carrier’s arrival could ascend your mood to piney peaks...or plunge it into overcast valleys.  Tragically, Mortimer received word of a cherished friend’s death…while delighted Grammy DeeDee got notified of the birth of her third grandchild.  Trixie rushed to rip open an official-looking envelope:  she finally landed her dream job!  Awkward class pictures rub elbows with soy-ink circulars; manufacturer’s coupons seek redemption while chain letters threaten heinous curses.  Earnest missives gently dispense hard-earned family wisdom but reams of screaming, trashy advertisements drown them out.  All this and more lie cinched into cumbersome sacks or flat trays jostling in the rear of this vintage postal transport.  The secrets of life are simple: you’ll find them hidden even in letters from Cousin Ralphie…but they’re useless if you never open the letter.

Will Special Delivery rock your world in the blink of this carrier’s eye?  Your best day coincides with someone else’s worst.  Perhaps the seeds of Mary’s miserable date night sprout into her babysitter’s fortunate sunrise.  Are you jealous of your neighbor’s package when you only get a measly flyer?  Don’t go postal, dear traveler…it won’t solve a thing.  One day, in a flash, your overstuffed mailbox will fall forever empty.  For now, be sure to savor today’s cache of valentines.

RELATED SITES:  STAMPS COMMEMORATING ROUTE 66 WERE RELEASED IN 2026; ASK FOR THEM AT ANY POST OFFICE ALONG THE ROUTE, BUT NOT AT THE HISTORICAL BEVERLY HILLS POST OFFICE, NOW PART OF THE WALLIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, AND KNOWN AS THE PAULA KENT MEEHAN HISTORIC BUILDING.  THIS 1930’S RENAISSANCE REVIVAL BUILDING IS ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AND HOUSES EIGHT FRESCOES BY ARTIST CHARLES KASSLER, BEVERLY HILLS, CA.