Dear John: Regarding your column about the US Postal Service losing cremains: You’re being way too nice to it. 

I’ve had plenty of packages lost by the USPS. Getting any sort of response from it is almost impossible. 

I wrote to the postal inspectors, the inspector general and also the postmaster general. Often no answer whatsoever. And when there is one, it’s generally a pablum form letter. 

I got my local (at my wife’s home in Michigan) congressional rep involved. That finally at least got some attention. 

They never found that specific package. It was a bunch of old cellphones I was sending a techie friend. USPS tracking showed it leaving the local post office en route to the distribution center. And then it was lost. D.B. 

Dear D.B.: What can I say? I was probably in a good mood if I was being too gentle on the post office for losing the remains of that woman’s mother.

But think about this: At least you are alive and your ashes aren’t sitting somewhere in a storage facility waiting for the post office to find you.