Not only are stamps more expensive (still no new 69 cent stamps to Canada, btw), but now all international packages have to be shipped by airmail! I know that you can't expect ground delivery across the Atlantic or Pacific, but not to Canada? It's attached most of the way along, really ( Read more... )

I don't know whether the cleaning made me feel better, or, already feeling better I was in the mood to clean ( Read more... )

I think that ALA is really trying to move some product for the holidays. Instead of the splashy catalog section marked New! there were little graphics proclaiming Recent! throughout. Nothing says Merry Xmas like that hot book on XMLActually, I wouldn't mind having that one ( Read more... )

I did good deeds today. I made a difference. So I went out and had pizza ( Read more... )

It's a virtual Mexican postcard torrent! Vacation mail two days in a row! But when will I get what I really wantWhether you find books on cricket or the secret to happiness, here's Thursday's reason to go to the library: microfilm readers may be used to replicate the effects of drunkenness. Prolonged exposure may cause dizziness, ( Read more... )

galiena_pvszr spent the first part of December in Mexico. I'm just getting some of the postcards now. I guess there isn't a country in North America to be spared my post office hatred ( Read more... )

Me: How long does it take air mail to get to Canada?
She: I honestly have no idea.

Me: I wonder when those new stamps go on sale?
She: You got me.

Me: Will it cost more to send a letter to Canada?
She: I don't know.

Had I been asking these questions anywhere but at the post office, I could have forgiven the person on the other end of the ( Read more... )

( Too high for mail? )

My mailman arrived at work today with my amazon.com box ( Read more... )

Whenever I've ordered from amazon.com before and gotten free shipping, it still came UPS ( Read more... )