Korean Job Discussion Forums

pet lover · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: not in Seoul

Okay, background first.

I told another poster here that I'd send her the deodorant that I had but didn't want. (a brand she liked but couldn't find) Got her address and my co-worker took it with him to the post office to mail it to her. This was last week on Tuesday. I used "pet lover" as a return address name and my co-worker MADE UP a return address because I really didn't want the deodorant back if anything went wrong.

Exactly one week later, this was yesterday, a mail carrier comes to my hagwon with the package. He wants me to sign for it. I agree, thinking, they just couldn't find her place and I would try again later. But no, he not only wanted me to sign for it, he wanted me to PAY for him bringing it back. Basically, after paying to have it sent, they wanted me to pay for them not doing their job and delivering it. I don't want to mess with THAT so I say, "Never mind, that's not me" and basically tell him to throw it in the trash because there was no way I was going to pay that fee. A Korean teacher was right there translating everything. He left.

BEFORE I told her that the package came back, the poster in question e-mailed me and said that she went to the post office to ask about the package (because usually delivery is very prompt and we were both wondering what had happened) and was told that they HAD IT BUT SENT IT BACK!

SO, my questions are:

1. With a fake return address, how did they find me? Go into every hagwon in the city and try to get someone to admit that they are Pet Lover?

2. If the post office in her area could so easily say that they had the exact package she was talking about, why couldn't they have delivered it?

It gets better.

Today, the post office called my boss and told him that since neither I nor the receipient accepted the package (how could she have when they never gave it to her?), we are both subject to a fine.

So, now my question is:

3. If they can fine her, that means they can find her, so why didn't they deliver the blankety blank package if she is so easily found?!?!

4. How can they prove that I am pet lover? I never used my real name and I wasn't even the one in the post office.

So, anyway, I plan to spend some of my precious, limited break time tomorrow to go to the post office, pay their blankety blank UN-delivery fee and then throw it in the trash right there in front of them

Twisted Evil

EDIT: Oh yeah, one more thing....they also want me to give them her (the poster who wants the deodorant) phone number. Yeah, right...even if I had it, I certainly wouldn't give it after they mentioned both of us paying a fine if someone (meaning me because they can't be bothered to deliver it to her) doesn't accept the package.

Dawn · Joined: 06 Mar 2004

Well, since you're going to the post office anyway, do you mind asking them if they happen to have any of our missing packages sitting around? (Or if they, perhaps, sent them back instead of bothering to deliver them as well? Rolling Eyes

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On second thought, with all the online shopping you've done lately, you might not want to P-O the post office too terribly much.

pet lover · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: not in Seoul

Crap. You are right. They've got me hostage or whatever you call it. Fine. I'll draw back my lips and show them my teeth, but it won't be my BEST smile as I give them their precious fine money and I don't know what I'll do with the deodorant...guess just hold on to it until the next time I'm in that area where the poster lives.

Dawn · Joined: 06 Mar 2004

Did the boss ask them why they didn't do their job and DELIVER said package?

pet lover · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: not in Seoul

Yep...and he gave me several reasons....not sure if it was his various takes on how to translate it or the post office being inconsistant...

1. No such address exists.

2. Nobody at the address accepted it.

3. Somebody at that address refused to take it.

paperbag princess · Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Location: veggie hell

maybe they used the IP address from school? do you post from school or home?

philipjames · Joined: 03 Feb 2003

I had a similar experiencea couple of years back. I had a package sent by registered mail from Canada to my home in Korea. Registered mail means, of course, that I have to sign for it. But I never received it. I asked a K co-worker to phone the post office to enquire. She said the post office tried to deliver it but I wasn't home, so they sent it BACK TO CANADA.

I asked why they would do such a rediculous thing (especially since registered mail suggests that it must be pretty important)? She didn't ask.
Did she ask why they hasn't left a note on my door to the effect that I could pick the parcel up at the nearest post office? No, of course not. Didn't the mailman think that the foreigner (name on envelope) was probably at work during the say, and unavailable to stay at home waiting for mail? Did the Korean co-worker think to challenge their logic. No, the package was just sent back. End of story.

A nation of idiots!

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

betchay · Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Location: Seoul

hi! i'm from the philippines and i thought that mail service in my country sucks... and i thought i'll never have bad experience here, but then my brother sent me a package from california last december... winter clothes and shoes... he sent them by registered mail and i was told that i'd get them in two weeks... unfortunately, it's almost 9 months and i haven't received them...