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arriterre and gleam, your packages went out today. You should receive them within 4-10 and 3-5 days respectively. My amazement is recurrent every time I go into the post office to mail something to New Zealand. Last time, a five pound box cost me forty bucks to ship. This time? An eleven ounce envelope cost me $10. And there wasn't nearly as much paperwork this time as there was before. And I didn't get an annoying anecdote from the postal worker who helped me. Last time I shipped something to NZ, I made the mistake of showing interest in the vacation story of the postman. I had to beg leave before he started pulling out a projector and slides to show the day he spent with the Maori and "that weird ritual with the funny-tasting punch."
...Okay. I might be stretching my credibility with the punch story.
Last week, eighty percent of the office was out with The Flu Who Lived. Now I'm getting a cough and I bet that, by the end of the week, I'm going to be cozied up in bed with a humidifier and a stack of House and The West Wing DVDs. I'm going to self-medicate with a heavily-frosted cookie and Diet Mountain Dew (did you know that every 12 oz. can contains at least 1,000mg of vitamin C? YA RLY!)
I just pulled an eyelash off my tongue.
arriterre and gleam, your packages went out today. You should receive them within 4-10 and 3-5 days respectively. My amazement is recurrent every time I go into the post office to mail something to New Zealand. Last time, a five pound box cost me forty bucks to ship. This time? An eleven ounce envelope cost me $10. And there wasn't nearly as much paperwork this time as there was before. And I didn't get an annoying anecdote from the postal worker who helped me. Last time I shipped something to NZ, I made the mistake of showing interest in the vacation story of the postman. I had to beg leave before he started pulling out a projector and slides to show the day he spent with the Maori and "that weird ritual with the funny-tasting punch."...Okay. I might be stretching my credibility with the punch story.
Last week, eighty percent of the office was out with The Flu Who Lived. Now I'm getting a cough and I bet that, by the end of the week, I'm going to be cozied up in bed with a humidifier and a stack of House and The West Wing DVDs. I'm going to self-medicate with a heavily-frosted cookie and Diet Mountain Dew (did you know that every 12 oz. can contains at least 1,000mg of vitamin C? YA RLY!)
I just pulled an eyelash off my tongue.
