This can prove to be a full day, depending on how things are going. The lines at the newly reopened recycling centers in Michigan can be very long, with limited entry. We pay 10 cents a bottle or can when purchased, and we get that money back when we return them. There has been a 3 month stack up of returnables that I am slowly dipping into. We are limited to $25 per visit when returning cans and bottles...this is seriously only a fraction of what I have piling up in my basement from the past 3 months: everyone in my house drinks beverages in returnables, and everyone's been home the entire time. Math!
My local post office periodically shuts down with signs that suggest that someone in the office has contracted the virus. Or, maybe it's just that they have to give the place a deep cleaning? The upshot is that I need to go to a post office further away, and that office of course now has the customers of two offices (or more). My wife has started selling her clothes online, and she's doing quite well, which means I need to run packages to the post office several times a week. Most recently, my local office was closed, and the next one had their bins so full I had to cram everything into a mailbox outside the office.
Clearly, a lot more people are leaning on the post office these days. Aside from healthcare workers, they face more potential exposure than anyone.
