OK this looks like it's going to turn into a MINI-SERIES, doesn't it? So my apartment's concierge called me to tell me that they got a CALL from the Post Office, saying that there's a package waiting for me and I have to go pick it up. I asked if there's a slip I need to bring to claim my package. Concierge-san said no slip, all they got was a PHONECALL. WTF the post office don't even send SLIPS anymore? Why the heck are they called THE POST OFFICE if all they do is call and ask people to pick up their own stuff instead of DELIVERING IT like what their job description implies???

Fine. No slip. I sent our office errand boy to GO FETCH! I wrote down on a piece of paper the address of the Post Office, which floor and which counter he has to go to, my name, the EMS tracking number, my ID, and some money to pay off some minor bogus "admin fees" ~_~ And within the next hour I keep getting these wild goose chase phonecalls every freakin 5 minutes from my errand boy who got LOST being bounced from counter to counter in the post office. Everytime he called, I would talk to the person who is behind the counter that he's at, and I already feel like repeating broken record:

Seriously I don't know if the Post Office is just so screwed up or my errand guy is stupid but seriously, my errand guy is pretty smart, well, smarter than average definitely (else we wouldn't have hired him) BUT I KEEP THINKING IT WOULD'VE BEEN SO MUCH EASIER IF HE WAS ACTUALLY HOLDING A SLIP!!! A SLIP THAT THE POST OFFICE NEGLECTED TO SEND BECAUSE THEY WERE TOO LAZY, A SLIP THAT WOULDN'T HAVE SENT MY GUY OFF IN SUCH WILD GOOSE CHASE!!!!

It's not even about being frustrated over NOT BEING ABLE TO GET MY CDs anymore, but it's all about being frustrated about HOW THINGS WORK IN THIS DAMN STUPID COUNTRY!!! And yes, I was enlightened at how much more screwed up they are when my phone started ringing with the 4TH CALL!!! GOOD LORD!!! WHAT THE HELL IS IT NOW?!?!

..... (translation: complete and utter speechlessness)

 
*looks at the clock*

BUT IT'S ONLY 3 PM!!!!

Or at least, if he called and notified at 12:30PM, he should've at least warned us to be there BEFORE 3 PM because it's common practice that people who work in the post office just goof off and knock off TWO HOURS EARLIER THAN THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO.

Unfuckingbelievable, this country is.

Now tell me how can we live in this dunghole they call a country and not have our cumulative lifespan shortened by possibly at least 30 YEARS!!!! RARRRR!!!

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Posted on > 04/24/2007 15:02pm by Nefretiri
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