Comments | howlsthunder: I, uh... got mail from Mesh today!

howlsthunder

I, uh... got mail from Mesh today!

Mar 14, 2006 15:32

So we checked the post office today for mail (imagine them having mail! the nerve!) And I had this thin, crinkly white envelope with a celophane window in it. Through the celophane I could see this mangled little brown wrapped pair of cd's smeared with black oil. Hmm. Wonder who this is from... The back of the envelope had this standard message of ( Read more... )

oh-no

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ex_hallalund643 March 15 2006, 02:52:57 UTC

soRRY about the NAme!

but dude. the post office is really pissing me off. not that i spent a fortune on shipping, but what did they use to delive these? greas eating snails?

howlsthunder March 15 2006, 03:08:01 UTC

That's about what it looks like, doesn't it? Grease eating MONSTER snails with big teeth. Did the disc in the plastic case originally have a lid? 'Cause it doesn't now. The bottom looks like it got scraped around on a floor. I'm going to clean it here in a bit and test the both of them and let you know if they work or not.

Either way, thanks for sending them! :D

geonncannon March 15 2006, 04:22:26 UTC

"Constantly making changes" seems to translate to raising stamp prices while receiving the same crappy service. :-/

Sucks about the discs! *kicks the USPS for you*

howlsthunder March 15 2006, 07:32:39 UTC

well.. *shrugs* It could be a lot worse. the USPS is pretty good if you compare it to a lot of other systems in the world. This is the first major mishap I've had.

pyoor_excuse March 15 2006, 07:32:49 UTC

The Royal Mail in the UK once delivered to me a Jiffy bag filled with shattered pieces of CD. Yes, they'd destroyed the box and the CD *completely*. It was in a plastic post-office we-destroyed-your-mail bag. I think they're all pretty much as bad as each other these days...

howlsthunder March 15 2006, 08:02:45 UTC

ohh, do you have a picture? X)

You know, whenever Trey would get packages from her mom, they always looked like they were kick-dropped from the UK all the way to Oregon. And you know, I think most of that damage happend on the UK side, actually. :\ Trey's packages to me from the UK were always like that, too.

pyoor_excuse March 15 2006, 08:11:16 UTC

sadly not, back then I didn't have digital camera. The amazing thing was the jiffy bag was mostly intact, it just had a chunk missing from one corner...

I dunno why the stuff that got to the US was so destroyed - mostly our postal service isn't terrible for destroying things; just occasionally they seem to get their stomping boots on....