Thank you, we're sorry

So, we've been working on thank you cards for our wedding gifts during the trip (see, this is how much we appreciate you all; we could be out enjoying the bountiful wonders of British Columbia and instead we are huddled in our dank little cave by candle-light scratching out thank-you cards instead) and mailing batches off as they are done along the way.

In a lot of these places the post office consists of a shack with a slot in it somewhere, or a small corner of the general store with the proprietor wearing a second hat as part time postmaster. As you might expect, this does not absorb the fullest measure of their attention, but by and large they do yeoman's work in a thankless task for the small communities and transient boaters they serve. Nonetheless, we checked in Victoria on the rates to use for mailing cards and such to the States. It was complicated a bit by the fact that we (ahem... Mandy) picked two different sizes, which took different rates. But we thought we had it all straight... until Tofino.

There, the good folks at Canada Post informed us that the stamps we had been putting on one of the card sizes was insufficient... by almost a dollar! They said the cards would probably still be delivered, but that the recipient would have to pay the difference on the postage! This was terrible news; here we are thanking people for their immense generosity, and instead, they are having to pay even more just to read the thank you!

So; if you are among those so affected, we apologize deeply and will think very carefully on sending out additional, follow-up thank you cards, weighing the benefit of thanking you properly with the very real possibility that we will screw it up yet again and force you to pay a third time for being so nice to us at our wedding.