tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010269263380886759.post5254960604775024020..comments2023-04-29T02:48:51.928-05:00Comments on and they called her MINImoo: usps...baby sisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05190907696258315177noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010269263380886759.post-9921440561168504142008-07-28T12:01:00.000-05:002008-07-28T12:01:00.000-05:00See!...I knew you had it in you to be cheap :)See!...I knew you had it in you to be cheap :)baby sisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05190907696258315177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010269263380886759.post-12779802223404860132008-07-12T01:55:00.000-05:002008-07-12T01:55:00.000-05:00Hi Mini-moo,Another week later...I have my OWN P.O...Hi Mini-moo,<BR/>Another week later...I have my OWN P.O./UPS experience to contribute!<BR/><BR/>This is Austria...the land of order, second to Switzerland. But something goes terribly wrong with their postal system. Yes, WORSE than in America!<BR/><BR/>Over the past three years of mailing bills with checks back to America, I'd say the Austrian Post Office has managed to lose at least 35 pieces of my mail. They have no qualms and no explanations. Just missing! Mind you, the checks are never cashed. So, I'm left to imagine that in some dusty corner in some very old post office building downtown are aging envelopes to Sears, JC Penney and the like, with my return address on them.<BR/><BR/>New dilema.<BR/>Second child is going off to university in America.<BR/>There is a need to MAIL a few boxes of her belongings to the States. Egads! What to do ?<BR/><BR/>In search of a better solution, I check out our very own "Mail Boxes, Inc." where they use UPS to ship things. The man behind the counter is an American! Been in Vienna longer than he can remember.<BR/>He is trying to push UPS over the Austrian mail system. An easy sell, since so many of us Americans suffer the same plight with undelivered mail.<BR/><BR/>Daugher packs up three heavy boxes of belongings weighing 35 kilos (approx. 77 pounds).<BR/><BR/>I call the UPS salesman for a quote.<BR/>And, just because I'm my mother's daughter and have a hidden thread of thriftiness running through me. (Yes...it shows up on RARE occassions), I reluctantly called the Austrian Post Office for a quote as well.<BR/><BR/>The final tally to ship 77 pounds to the USA....<BR/>Austria Post = 142 euros / $225.00<BR/>(insured, and four weeks travel)<BR/>UPS = 496 euros / $788.64<BR/>(insured - one week travel-trackable)<BR/><BR/>So, even though I will have to send off each box WITH a SPECIAL PRAYER, and REGISTERED (may add to the tally), I will have to use the Austrian Postal service!<BR/><BR/>No more complaints from Americans about the price of ANYTHING on that side of the pond!!<BR/>(as of today, we are paying $8.45 per gallon of gasoline!)<BR/><BR/>Dusty pockets,<BR/>bigger sisterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010269263380886759.post-33619355751330704492008-07-02T07:36:00.000-05:002008-07-02T07:36:00.000-05:00I know!...BORING!YES! That's EXACTLY what people ...I know!...BORING!<BR/><BR/>YES! That's EXACTLY what people do with blogs. Some people have more of a talent for idle chit-chat (like you), but I was so annoyed when I left the PO, that I thought - I have to write this in my BLOG!<BR/><BR/>I'm sure others use this medium as a way to change the world or be humorous or help people out with projects - but yeah, it's just a daily journal for me :)baby sisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05190907696258315177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010269263380886759.post-12766069677380205132008-07-02T05:47:00.000-05:002008-07-02T05:47:00.000-05:00Hi little sister-So this is what people talk about...Hi little sister-<BR/>So this is what people talk about on blogs...the Postal Service! Hmmm.<BR/>Are blogs the new daily journals?<BR/>Guess this will be a good way of keeping in touch with my sisters.<BR/>I've asked my kids to help me create a blog - but I think it will involve me getting a new computer, first! Then a new digital camera so I can upload pix! Then......<BR/>You see where this is going!<BR/>Now that I know where to find your blog - you'll be hearing from me :-)<BR/><BR/>Hugs,<BR/>bigger sisterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com