re: #106 windsagio

I get packages all the time, this is the first time they’ve screwed it up. I’m naive enough to think that it’ll show up >>

I love the US Post Office. About 5 years ago, my meteorite contact Abdullah, in Morocco, passed along a 250 dollar payment to one of his Bedouin meteorite dealers. I western union the money to Morocco, and expected to see a 3 pound package in about 2 months.

Six months later, a post office in upstate new york called me and asked me if I was expecting a package from Morocco. It seems that this Bedouin was a little lacking on writing English, or even an international address correctly, so all he did was put my name, phone number and USA on the package.

How it got to upstate new york, or how it even got through any postal system was amazing. And the numbers in my phone number was written in that typical european style, with crossed stemmed sevens and zig-zagged fours and one that looked like a fish hook… so it too the post office in upstate new york a few tries to even dial the phone number correctly.

That’s customer service.