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The Mail Arrives
🕑 Added 2017-07-16 18:40:25 +0000 UTC Okay after a few weeks hiatus it's back to the story.
While other ponies responded to interesting packages and letters they'd received in the mail; Rainbow Dash was having her own postal adventures in my Equestria dreamscape.
RD's personal office at the Ponyville headquarter of the Royal Equestria Weather Service, REWS, was modest size room. The headquarters had once been a local inn until it was purchased and converted about 20 years ago. Her office on the second had once been one of larger bedrooms in the inn, but once one stuffed in all the file cabinets, her desk, a couple of chairs, and other random office items the room was cramp. Still she'd found space to hang several pieces of Wonderbolt memorabilia on the walls.
Dash was reviewing the next week's work schedule when her concentration was broken by the sound of her office door opening. Glancing up she watched as Derpy backed into the room dragging a large, very full, and obviously heavy mailbag into the room. Gripping the bag's drawstrings with her teeth she continued backing into the room until she was in front of RD's desk. Through it all Dash had stared silently with a befuddled look on her face. Finally the light gray mare let go of the drawstrings. She panted for a couple seconds and then turned around and faced RD.
"Morning Rainbow Dash!" said the mailmare. "How's your day been so far?"
The light cerulean blue smirked. "Less strenuous then yours apparently. What's with the bag?"
Derpy having already opened her front pannier was unable to answer until she'd removed a small bundle of envelopes from the pannier with her teeth and set them on RD's desk.
"Oh! This is all mail I needed to deliver to you! I just figured you could return the mail bag to the post office when you've gone through all of it."
"What! Wait! Whoa! Derpy are you saying all this mail is suppose to be delivered to the Weather Service here? We've never gotten this much mail in a day! We don't get this much mail in a week!"
Dash once again had to wait for an answer as the mailmare grunted, and strained to lift the heavy mailbag off the floor and deposit it on her desk which groaned under the weight of the bag. With the task completed Derpy looked at her.
"No Dash. This bag is all for you. Apparently most of this came in from Cloudsdale Office this morning. They apparently decided to wait until they'd collected a bunch of it before they forwarded it to Ponyville. The rest arrived today in the regular mail deliveries. This is your personal mail. The REWS Office is closer to the Post Office, and closer to the ground, so I decided to deliver it to you here. Please don't make me haul it all the way up to your cloud home!"
Dash stared with a incredulously at the bag. "This, is, all, for me?"
"Yes." Said Derpy.
"Why am I suddenly getting all this mail?"
Derpy rubbed the back of her neck with a front hoof and grinned sheepishly.
"Well Dash you know that Royal Equestria Mail Service workers are not allowed to open, read, or tamper with mail addressed to other ponies, but from some of the writing on the few envelopes I saw I'd say these are all letters from ponies who saw or heard of your performance in Cloudsdale. This is your fan mail Rainbow Dash!"
To be continued.
Comments
Baron Engel
Well there are journalists in Equestria like Sundown.
MishaFox
Are there paparazzi in Equestria?
Baron Engel
Eeyup!
Baron Engel
Yep and all that means.
MishaFox
Now she has top deal with being so popular!
McClaw
She wanted to be well-known, now she is.
Vet
Should be some interesting mail in there. Congratulations. Solicitations. Death threats.......
Major Matt Mason
Funnily enough, I'm putting the final touches on a Lionel DerpyMail car. Derpy's head ducks as the car passes a tell-tale over the tracks. ;-)
