While at the post office today, on a seemingly routine drop off/pick up mission for F&SF, I ran into none other than the Mumpsimus himself, Matt Cheney. Which was a bit weird, as I had something I was dropping in the mail for him. We discussed me just hand delivering it, but I had a lot of parcels and no idea where it was, and it already had Stamps.com metered postage on it (though I belatedly realized I could have canceled the postage and gotten my money back). In the end, we thought it best to just let the PO bring it by his place.

When I learned of what part of Hoboken Matt moved into, I wondered if I might run into him at the post office. Turned out to happen sooner rather than later. It went much better than my nightmare scenarios of crazed slush writers staking out the post office waiting for me near Box 3447 with a sock full of pennies.