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Post by Nathan on May 10, 2004 15:34:00 GMT -6
hey ryan... update on the package: my mom called the post office today... she got three responses... 1) "its only been two weeks, give it another week or so" only two weeks to send it 30 miles? 2) "oh? Media Mail? well... if Media Mail isn't shipped we just throw it away" throw it away? ? DAMN THEM!!!!!! 3) "Media Mail is shipped with First Class mail so it should have gotten there..." a bit of irony, the post office is running a new ad campaign with a mailcarrier delivering mail through the traditional rain snow and heat... and evil robots and other fantastic situations... and then their slogan of "Guaranteed to Get your Mail there, no matter what" or something along those lines. i busted out laughing after seeing this
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Post by ZacharyKlaas on May 10, 2004 21:22:19 GMT -6
We just got 30$ (Canadian money, roughly translates to "pocket lint" in American money) from Canada Post for them losing some sheet music we sent to Michigan. Sympathies on the postal crud.
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Post by Tasneem on May 11, 2004 15:07:49 GMT -6
The mail sucks in general. I mail letters and the other person gets them two weeks later at the earliest. Funnily enough, my parents sent a graduation card to Bangladesh (a country need India) and it got there faster than the cards sent out to people in Missouri. Half of the people didn't even get their cards still.
My parents just thought it was the mail at UMKC first because my brother along with the rest of the people accepted got their admission papers a month after they were mailed out. It was so pathetic that they emailed everyone an acceptance email but half of the people stull didn't get it since they forgot to put ".com" at the end of people's emails.
Before that, my mom was supposed to get important papers from UMKC so she could get her medical license. Those papers also came a month later than planned. Now my mom is frantically trying to obtain all the information she needs. Which leads to another post office mess up. My mom did a rotation (some sorta class in medical school) in a place called La Clinica. This place mailed her grade to her medical school in Nashville about two months ago. My mom's school never got it and the person who did the grade is no where to be found. So she has to figure out some way to get the grade or she can't graduate in a week or so.
My theory on the mess-up: The post office fired all the aliens who work there (as told in Men in Black) so the average idiot who works there happens to be so stupid that they keep losing stuff.
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Post by Nathan on May 11, 2004 16:51:50 GMT -6
that must be it.
or in my circumstance... i think the Government destroyed my package!! u know why? Because along with a video game and guide i sent ryan the Natopian constitution to be signed... the P.O. must have found out about the counter-culture-constitution (alliteration!!!!) in the package and destroyed the entire package!!!
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Post by ZacharyKlaas on May 12, 2004 7:53:37 GMT -6
Tasneem: Bangladesh is "a country near India"? How is it that a country with more than 100 million people has to describe itself with reference to being next door to some other country? Do you actually write this on the envelope when you send mail there, for the geographically-challenged U.S. Postal Service? By those standards, I should preface all my entries here as being from Canada, "a country near the United States". Nate: Can you blame the Post Office for monitoring the transmission of your scandalously seditious Natopian literature? (P.S., for all you CIA and FBI dudes reading this post - howdy!) After all, as St. Louis goes, so goes Edwardsville.
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Post by Tasneem on May 12, 2004 16:51:45 GMT -6
Tasneem: Bangladesh is "a country near India"? How is it that a country with more than 100 million people has to describe itself with reference to being next door to some other country? Do you actually write this on the envelope when you send mail there, for the geographically-challenged U.S. Postal Service? By those standards, I should preface all my entries here as being from Canada, "a country near the United States". Isn't that sad that I always have to say it's next to India for people to actually picture where it might be. I suppose that we just don't learn that much geography in America since America is always in the middle of the maps. General people know where only a couple countries are like Japan, China, Mexico, India, Russia, Canada, Australia, and possibly England. I'm probably missing some but not much. Funnily enough, when most people ask my where I was born I tell them Mexico (I leave out the part that it is a small city in Missouri). So then they ask where my parents are from. Usually people have no idea where Bangladesh is so I have to add in the part about it being next to India. The only people who know where it is are people who lived in other countries. Which proves my point that Americans probably never learned much geography in school. Back to the main subject: The post office probably did seize the constitution (I just noticed there are 3 t's in that word) and the game because the postal service thought that we are trying to overthrow the US government. The game has all of our "plans" that we have to destroy the gov't. So Natopia is like Mario and the bad guys represent the gov't. You know how our gov't always picks the wrong things out of the mail for suspection
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Post by ZacharyKlaas on May 13, 2004 20:12:52 GMT -6
You're from Mexico? ¿Como está? Actually, I believe I've actually heard of Mexico, Missouri. Isn't it near Louisiana, Missouri? (I rather enjoy that one, as I spent seven years living in the "other" Louisiana, in New Orleans.) I remember when I was a kid, I was watching some show with a stand-up comedian who said "I know what you're thinking...another comedian from Bangladesh." At the time, we thought this was an extremely funny thing to say. Of course, now, I know enough funny people who either hail from the Indian subcontinent or have families who do, so I don't know if I'd be as amused by the joke as I was then.
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Post by Tasneem on May 14, 2004 14:17:34 GMT -6
Yo estoy bien. ¿Y tu? (I'm too lazy to go find an accented 'u')
I've never been to Louisiana, Missouri. I'm not really sure where it is either. Mexico is around Columbia and Moberly and other small places like those. Those small towns are always fun.
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Post by ZacharyKlaas on May 14, 2004 14:47:12 GMT -6
My dad is from small-town Missouri/Illinois. He was born in Batchtown, IL and spent his later childhood in Elsberry, MO. Basically anyplace the Mississippi floods like the dickens is where my dad's family has lived.
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Post by Tasneem on May 14, 2004 22:55:56 GMT -6
Small towns in Missouri RULE!
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Post by ZacharyKlaas on May 15, 2004 22:33:37 GMT -6
Isn't that the cheer of all the people who went every summer to John Cougar Mellen Camp? Sorry, just looking for an excuse to make that joke.
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Post by Tasneem on May 15, 2004 23:37:41 GMT -6
That's a long name for a camp
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Post by ZacharyKlaas on May 16, 2004 16:03:05 GMT -6
(*someone will probably explain it to her later*) (*either that or I'm the only one old enough to remember who John Cougar Mellencamp is*)
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Post by Tasneem on May 17, 2004 16:52:07 GMT -6
Wait did the guy's name have 'camp' in it? I'm confused
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Post by ZacharyKlaas on May 17, 2004 20:04:51 GMT -6
Yeah, that was the joke. Don't worry, I have a zillion more old-people-references.
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