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lolololol So last week, I went to the post office to buy a box. I said I wanted to ship some stuff back to the U.S. by boat, and the woman behind the desk offered me a selection of sizes. I bought the largest, brought it home, and packed it full of crap that I want to keep but won't need immediately upon my return, as sea mail takes a couple months to reach its destination.
The thing weighed way too much to haul even the four blocks to the post office, so I ran around my building looking for a dolly to borrow. Got one, made my rattling way over just before the afternoon mail rush... ONLY TO BE TOLD THAT THE BOX WAS TOO LARGE TO GO BY BOAT. ALSO THAT THERE WAS A WEIGHT LIMIT. WHICH I'D EXCEEDED.
me: But... I bought this box here. I said I wanted to ship things to America via boat. This is what I got.
Post Office Lady: No one who works here should have told you that it was okay to mail this box by boat.
AND YET.
She went on to tell me that I could only send my package via air mail, in which case it would cost A GAJILLION DOLLARS. (Okay, so really it would be around $147. BUT STILL.)
What wound up happening was that the badass Post Office Lady sliced my box open, had me move some of my stuff to a smaller box, and taped the big one down so its dimensions fit the sea mail regulations. Sending two boxes via boat cost half of what it would have to send by plane. Thus the day was saved!
The thing weighed way too much to haul even the four blocks to the post office, so I ran around my building looking for a dolly to borrow. Got one, made my rattling way over just before the afternoon mail rush... ONLY TO BE TOLD THAT THE BOX WAS TOO LARGE TO GO BY BOAT. ALSO THAT THERE WAS A WEIGHT LIMIT. WHICH I'D EXCEEDED.
me: But... I bought this box here. I said I wanted to ship things to America via boat. This is what I got.
Post Office Lady: No one who works here should have told you that it was okay to mail this box by boat.
AND YET.
She went on to tell me that I could only send my package via air mail, in which case it would cost A GAJILLION DOLLARS. (Okay, so really it would be around $147. BUT STILL.)
What wound up happening was that the badass Post Office Lady sliced my box open, had me move some of my stuff to a smaller box, and taped the big one down so its dimensions fit the sea mail regulations. Sending two boxes via boat cost half of what it would have to send by plane. Thus the day was saved!