Comments on: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night… http://matadorpulse.com/neither-snow-nor-rain-nor-heat-nor-gloom-of-night/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:42:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Julie http://matadorpulse.com/neither-snow-nor-rain-nor-heat-nor-gloom-of-night/comment-page-1/#comment-1529 Julie Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:49:55 +0000 http://matadorpulse.com/?p=445#comment-1529 Wow-- maybe we should outsource the USPS to Laos! My craziest post story was trying to mail a package or rum and Romeo and Julieta cigarettes to Puerto Rico from Cuba. Spent a whole day scouring Havana to come up with the packing supplies (a box, twine, and some sawdust), then a good chunk of money sending, and an equally large chunk of time filling out forms. I never received the box, but I'd like to think that some postal clerks in some country missed an afternoon of work, passing around the bottles I'd bought and enjoying themselves! Wow– maybe we should outsource the USPS to Laos! My craziest post story was trying to mail a package or rum and Romeo and Julieta cigarettes to Puerto Rico from Cuba. Spent a whole day scouring Havana to come up with the packing supplies (a box, twine, and some sawdust), then a good chunk of money sending, and an equally large chunk of time filling out forms. I never received the box, but I'd like to think that some postal clerks in some country missed an afternoon of work, passing around the bottles I'd bought and enjoying themselves!

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]]> By: Hal http://matadorpulse.com/neither-snow-nor-rain-nor-heat-nor-gloom-of-night/comment-page-1/#comment-1528 Hal Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:16:43 +0000 http://matadorpulse.com/?p=445#comment-1528 Visiting post offices abroad is such a surreal experience...Audrey captures it so well in her article. I remember stepping into a post office in Pakse, Laos, to ship home an assortment of unnecessary items and Christmas presents. Everything was so informal (the box made up on the spot, the guestimated weight) I was sure I'd never see any of those things again. But lo and behold, a short 3 months later (and just a couple days before Christmas, to boot), there they were on my doorstep in Texas! Visiting post offices abroad is such a surreal experience…Audrey captures it so well in her article. I remember stepping into a post office in Pakse, Laos, to ship home an assortment of unnecessary items and Christmas presents. Everything was so informal (the box made up on the spot, the guestimated weight) I was sure I'd never see any of those things again. But lo and behold, a short 3 months later (and just a couple days before Christmas, to boot), there they were on my doorstep in Texas!

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