The Remarkable Fools Letter

The Remarkable Fools Letter

your package driver talks about you

and if deliveries don’t show up where you want them it’s a sign (that you’re a dick)

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Jim Dalling
Dec 16, 2025
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Times are tight these days dear reader, times are tight indeed!

Lately though?

I’ve been saving constantly - saving steps that is.

Typically these days I’ve been stopping at between a hundred and twenty and a hundred and forty homes to deliver gifts. Most of them have front steps.

Today I took the time to do some maths for all y’all.

The average house has four steps going up to their door. Some homes have more. Some have none. But the average seems to be four.

Four steps per stop for over a hundred and twenty stops? That’s like forty eight stories of stair climbing in a day, well over two hundred stories of stair climbing in a week.

On purely a caloric basis, this requires a lot of work, a lot of extra effort.

It requires a delivery driver and his incredibly handsome walking assistant (me) to often go that extra mile for our customers.

But who dear reader are you willing to go that extra mile for?

With us? We go up the stairs for kind people, considerate people who open their door to receive…

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