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dragonlady7My sister sent a package to me, from Savannah, GA, on the 22nd of Dec.
It arrived today.
It had formerly contained 2 Bell jars of dry spices-- a cajun spice mix and a meat rub featuring their homegrown rosemary. It also had contained 2 oranges, mostly just to fill the box and keep the padding in place.
It had been squashed FLAT at one end. The end with the oranges in it. They had gone mushy, and the jar with the rosemary rub had been crushed. The Cajun rub jar was intact.
The Post Office had wrapped it in Saran wrap, sealed it in a plastic bag, and held onto it until the oranges went entirely moldy. Then they dropped it off on my doorstep with no apology. Today.
Katy sent three packages. One arrived in Chicago on the 24th of December, intact. The other arrived in Albany on the 27th, intact.
She paid $9 in postage on each, incidentally, and clearly marked all three as "Fragile".
I'm just so annoyed-- the postman just kind of chucked the package onto our doorstep, like OK we fucked this up but whatever.
Didn't they used to at least stick a Post-It note on it saying "Sorry"?
It made an un-Godly mess on my kitchen counter, because I had no idea what was in it and so had to paw through the sodden, moldy, glass-shard-filled rock salt and packing material just in case there was something else in there.
And Katy's nice handwritten note was entirely illegible. :( I think it said "Happy New Year" at the top.
Oh well. Thanks, Postal Service. I actually woke up this morning worrying about our poor postman, who has a long route on foot. A family friend was a postal worker for years and sustained nerve damage in her fingers from cold exposure-- she wore fingerless gloves so that she could sort mail, but it was so cold one winter she has permanent numbness in some of her fingertips. I know it's a hard job!
It just looked like someone had stomped on the edge of this package. :( Oh well-- at least one of the jars arrived intact.
It arrived today.
It had formerly contained 2 Bell jars of dry spices-- a cajun spice mix and a meat rub featuring their homegrown rosemary. It also had contained 2 oranges, mostly just to fill the box and keep the padding in place.
It had been squashed FLAT at one end. The end with the oranges in it. They had gone mushy, and the jar with the rosemary rub had been crushed. The Cajun rub jar was intact.
The Post Office had wrapped it in Saran wrap, sealed it in a plastic bag, and held onto it until the oranges went entirely moldy. Then they dropped it off on my doorstep with no apology. Today.
Katy sent three packages. One arrived in Chicago on the 24th of December, intact. The other arrived in Albany on the 27th, intact.
She paid $9 in postage on each, incidentally, and clearly marked all three as "Fragile".
I'm just so annoyed-- the postman just kind of chucked the package onto our doorstep, like OK we fucked this up but whatever.
Didn't they used to at least stick a Post-It note on it saying "Sorry"?
It made an un-Godly mess on my kitchen counter, because I had no idea what was in it and so had to paw through the sodden, moldy, glass-shard-filled rock salt and packing material just in case there was something else in there.
And Katy's nice handwritten note was entirely illegible. :( I think it said "Happy New Year" at the top.
Oh well. Thanks, Postal Service. I actually woke up this morning worrying about our poor postman, who has a long route on foot. A family friend was a postal worker for years and sustained nerve damage in her fingers from cold exposure-- she wore fingerless gloves so that she could sort mail, but it was so cold one winter she has permanent numbness in some of her fingertips. I know it's a hard job!
It just looked like someone had stomped on the edge of this package. :( Oh well-- at least one of the jars arrived intact.
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Date: 2009-01-17 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-17 02:54 pm (UTC)Actually I've never had anything damaged/stolen while traveling. But my sister, last November or so, had her suitcase ransacked and vandalized while she was flying United out of Chicago. They stole her flatiron, her GPS navigation system, and her workout DVDs, and then they spritzed perfume into her bag and left her a couple of small worthless things taken from someone else's bag, apparently just so she'd know they'd been there. One of her coworkers, on the same flight, had all her jewelry stolen, and they took the caps off her lipsticks and threw them back into her bag so all her clothes were ruined. And another coworker, on a flight a few days beforehand from the same airport on the same airline, had three pairs of $100 designer jeans stolen from her suitcase.
And United charges you $15 to check a bag.
So I guess it could've been worse than just having my package squashed!