Some Kinda Hunch

 What do you do with a premonition?  I think I didn't even know the word for a long time, using its synonyms, hunch, foreboding, omen, rarely portent, more often suspicion, and never to any such apprehensions that I myself felt, because I never had them, only others reported such things, some of them close to me, most elsewhere, in newspapers, television or books.

One dictionary definition (and there are several with subtle but significant differences) has 'premonition' meaning . "a strong feeling that something is about to happen, esp. something unpleasant." (the 'especially unpleasant' part doesn't figure in all definitions.)

It just happened a month or so ago, around the Thanksgiving Day that I had a premonition, and it was not about something 'especially unpleasant', but about something either pleasant or neutral.   It hit me strongly and unexpectedly, I don't know why or how - I was awake and perfectly sober at the time, standing in front of the city's Central Post Office and hesitating a minute before dropping into the mailbox some envelopes containing checks or business correspondence, nothing personal anyway.  I hesitated trying to remember if I had signed and dated some document or check, I no longer recall.

And it came to me that before the New Year's Day I would receive in the mail Christmas  Greetings from an unexpected source, someone I hadn't seen or heard from for years and decades.  It wasn't a fantasy, wishful thinking, no one's name came to mind, no speculations, no guesses.  I shook it off and forgot about it, the way one forgets most random thoughts and observations.

What do you think happened next? A story must have some point, a pay off, and if we're lucky, even a moral.  It's now New Year's Eve, the last day of the year, the postman reaches my house late in the day on his route, after 6, sometimes 7PM, so there is still a chance for the premonition to prove itself,  because (if I have to serve it explicitly) nothing happened.