Make sense a’ dat!

The post-office in Plantation, FL was apparently unable to forward a Christmas present to a grand-nephew, so it bounced back.
My wife, who used to work part-time at the tiny West Bloomfield post-office nearby, tells me a forward is good for a year; but there has to be one for each last name.
When my niece moved out of her condo, it was to a townhouse, and that was the address I had.
She later moved to another house in Fort Lauderdale — unannounced to me.
So a forward would be from the townhouse in Plantation to the new house in Fort Lauderdale.
But my grand-nephew is by her first marriage, so has that guy’s last name.
My niece has since remarried, and they had a daughter.
That daughter, of course, has the same last name as what’s on the forward. So anything to her at the townhouse address gets forwarded to the new address.
Meanwhile, my grand-nephew, having the last name of my niece’s first husband, is “addressee unknown.”
“Fiddlesticks,” my wife says.
“We woulda figured it out at the West Bloomfield post-office;” where addresses may harbor four or five different last names — his previous kids, her previous kids, their kids, an unrelated tenant.
So I set about making a new address-label, with the new address.
I do this with Microsoft Word®, its label-printing function.
I copy/paste the address from an AppleWorks® file I have, and crank into Word’s label window.
I’ve done it hundreds of times, and had just made another shipping-label to an old college friend.
Crank copied name-and-address into Word label window.
“Print.”
Um, nothing.
Total silence from my printer.
Try it again — starting from scratch.
“Print.”
Again, nothing.
Fire up printer dialog.
Nothing in printer queue.
“What’s going on here?
I must be doing something wrong.........”
Wife strides in — begins watching.
Try a third time.
Nothing.
Again, nothing in printer queue.
Try it a fourth time.
“Print.”
Deafening silence from my printer, then all-of-a-sudden it starts printing the label.
“Make sense a’ dat!” I say.
“Make sense a’ dat!”

• My wife of 42 years is “Linda.” Like me she’s retired, but she worked part-time at the West Bloomfield post-office. She retired as a computer programmer. She no longer works at the post-office.
• We live in the small rural town of West Bloomfield in Western N.Y., southeast of Rochester.
• “AppleWorks” is Apple Computer’s word-processing software. It also does spreadsheets and drawing, etc. It’s now called “iWorks.” I drive an Apple Macintosh computer.