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Patrique
Joined: 04 Oct 2007
Location: Sajik-dong, Busan
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 Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:32 am Post subject: My mail was sent to the wrong address - where is it now? |
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I gave my family my school's mailing address here in Busan - the one that was printed on my contract. It turns out that the contract address had a horrifically wrong mispelling of the neighborhood (tsu-oup dong instead of cho-eup dong). Everything else in the address is correct besides that, including the post code.
Some things were sent to me over a month ago, and I have not yet received them, not have the people who sent them to me gotten them back. Are they at some Korea Post office? Are they on their way back to Canada on the super-slow boat? Help! |
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Patrique
Joined: 04 Oct 2007
Location: Sajik-dong, Busan
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Just bumping this one time, in case someone can help me out. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:06 pm Post subject: Re: My mail was sent to the wrong address - where is it now? |
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| Patrique wrote: |
I gave my family my school's mailing address here in Busan - the one that was printed on my contract. It turns out that the contract address had a horrifically wrong mispelling of the neighborhood (tsu-oup dong instead of cho-eup dong). Everything else in the address is correct besides that, including the post code.
Some things were sent to me over a month ago, and I have not yet received them, not have the people who sent them to me gotten them back. Are they at some Korea Post office? Are they on their way back to Canada on the super-slow boat? Help! |
If they had a return address AND were labeled for return if undeliverable then they should be on the slow boat back to Canada.
If not, then it will be dead lettered and I have no idea how to recover it.
You can try to e-mail Korea post from their website:
( http://www.koreapost.go.kr/eng/index.jsp ) or you could ask a Korean speaker (if you have any Korean friends) to assist you at the MAIN post office in your GU.
You would probably just get blank stares from the counter staff at the small dong-sized postal offices.
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:06 am Post subject: |
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| You will never see it. |
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Patrique
Joined: 04 Oct 2007
Location: Sajik-dong, Busan
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:36 am Post subject: |
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| OiGirl wrote: |
| You will never see it. |
What do you mean? Are you speaking from experience? |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Patrique wrote: |
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| You will never see it. |
What do you mean? Are you speaking from experience? |
Yes, I am.
Even boxes with the correct address on them, even boxes that were insured when they were shipped from the US, if they don't show up, they will never be seen again.
Best of luck to you. |
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Patrique
Joined: 04 Oct 2007
Location: Sajik-dong, Busan
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:37 am Post subject: |
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| OiGirl wrote: |
| Patrique wrote: |
| OiGirl wrote: |
| You will never see it. |
What do you mean? Are you speaking from experience? |
Yes, I am.
Even boxes with the correct address on them, even boxes that were insured when they were shipped from the US, if they don't show up, they will never be seen again.
Best of luck to you. |
Oh boy. Looks like I'm out at least $100 if that's true. Thanks Korea Post. |
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Imbroglio
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Behind the wheel of a large automobile
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| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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Last year my mother sent me two Ralph Lauren blazers. Inside the box, she included a letter (the letter was addressed correctly but had no postage).
To save money on import duty tax, she wrote "old clothes" on the packing slip description.
The box was correctly addressed.
About three weeks later, I get the letter with no postage on it, minus the box with the two blazers.
Korea postal! |
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