On Wednesday morning, after not receiving mail for two days at our Lincoln Square home, I turned to the Lincoln Square Patch Facebook page to see if we were alone.

The resounding answer was "no." "No mail as of yesterday... and that's OK...would rather the mail carriers be safe & warm... my bills can wait," wrote Jodi S.

She was representative of the more than 20 people who left a comment, saying they hadn't received mail Monday or Tuesday. Most of them, like myself, weren't surprised or upset by this. We didn't want the mail carriers losing fingers and toes to frostbite. We just wanted to know when to expect our letters and packages to show up. So I checked in with the USPS spokesman Mark Reynolds to find out when mail would resume. His answer: it had never stopped.

"All carriers have been out all week," he told me. But what about the 20-some people on our Facebook page who said otherwise? What about my missing mail?

He told me everyone had been out as normal and he could only look into problems if I gave him a specific address on Thursday, when he'd be back in the office.

Hmm, really, there wasn't any overarching problem with delivery? Nope, mail had been being delivered all week, he said.