Important missives from people we actually owe money to are damned difficult to tell from scammers and unsavory marketers anymore.

Then send it certified mail, we say... but then the post office has been undermined by an outgoing administration and the realities of being staffed by humans equally affected by a pandemic.

So here we are, more ways to communicate than have ever been dreamed of, and you can't get a signal out of the goddamned noise. I don't have any Bloody Marys, but if the bartender isn't around, some Tennessee whisky perhaps?