Who, these days, isn’t concerned with the education of our children? That’s why it’s gratifying to discover an easy way to teach our young ones all about the geography of this great country of ours.

Not only that, all the teaching materials are made possible by…and you’re not going to believe this…the United States Postal Service, better known by its acronym WOWIE (Where Oh Where Is Everything).

Often abbreviated USPS.

The USPS has made learning geography simple. All you do is ask it to deliver a package. Then wait until the USPS—and this certainly honors the memory of those Pony Express riders who had only the stars to guide them—advises you that your package is lost somewhere in the country.

With luck, it will be a place you and your family have never heard of.

For example, only last week I ordered a Bluetooth headset for overnight delivery. Two days later the USPS informed me that my package would not be there overnight because it was in Roy, Utah.

And so the  geography lesson begins.

The first thing I did was look up the ZIP Code for Roy, Utah, which is 84067. Then, and this is a game you can play with your kids, I wrote “840” on a piece of paper and my wife and I squinted at it from all directions.

The winner of the game is the first person to figure out a way of making 840 look like 900, the first three digits of the Los Angeles ZIP Code, which is where the package was supposed to go.

This game is great for building imagination, math skills, and hand-eyelid coordination.

Then it was time to learn all about where my package was. According to the official Roy, Utah website (royutah.org), Roy is a city where, “…life-long residents and visitors, alike, are part of the same tight-knit family.”

This explains why, when I called the Roy, Utah post office, which is at 4879 South 1900 West Street (also known as State Route 126), nobody would talk to me about missing Bluetooth headphone packages.

“Could it be that everyone is down the street at Little Caesar’s, scarfing pizza and learning to sync Bluetooth headsets with their phones?” I asked.

The person on the other end of the call, startled that I knew so much about Roy, literally gushed silence.

Then she hung up, letting me know how much I was a part of the aforementioned tight-knit family.

My experience, however, should in no way dampen your enthusiasm for learning more about Roy and its very special corner of Utah. Unfortunately, Roy is roughly in the center of the Utah panhandle. Out of Utah’s six corners, none belong to Roy.

Admit it. That’s a Jeopardy! question you’ll never get wrong again.

Imagine if the USPS had done something mundane, like its job. The opportunity to learn something new about a great American city like Roy, Utah (which, by the way, now allows every homeowner to keep six chickens, six rabbits, or a combination of chickens and rabbits not to exceed six in his or her backyard) would be lost forever.

Meanwhile, if I’m lucky, one day within my lifetime the Roy post office will forward my Bluetooth headset to me.

Or advise me what great American city I’m going to learn about next.

(FOR THE RECORD: This is a work of satire. I have great respect for the USPS. If I ever own a parakeet I will name it Ben Franklin. My mail carrier and I are on a first-name basis. We even exchange holiday cards which, at his suggestion, we don’t put in the mail.)