Barb Pulls a Barry

Our neighbour Barry was collecting our mail while we were in Florida and Barb was waiting for her new driver's license to come in the mail.  She asked Barry to look out for it and when it comes in the mail to forward it to her in Florida.  After a couple of months, Barry said it hadn't come. So Barb phoned the license bureau and they said it had been mailed on a certain date.  So she asked Barry to look for it again.  This time he found it and mailed it to her just before her temporary license expired.  Well Barb had been waiting for her new Mastercard to come in the mail.  She was using my Mastercard all this time.  So she phoned Mastercard and they said that all they could do is cancel her card and mail her a new one.  They said they could courier it but then when they found out we were in New Hamburg they said it would get there just as fast by normal mail.  So she waited a few days and it didn't come.  She was about to complain again when she noticed a strange letter in the pile of mail she had collected on the table.  It was her new card in a black envelope.  Then she looked harder at the mail on the table and found another black envelope which contained her replacement card and my replacement card.  There was nothing she could do now except change all the automatic payments coming out of her Mastercard to her new number.  It was a big hassle that could have been easily avoided if she had opened her mail promptly.