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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:24 pm Post subject: Books Are Gone |
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I shipped four boxes of books and personal papers home two months ago via Korean mail. They included several rare first edition books -- books that are no longer in print. I've been traveling with them for a couple of years.
Two arrived; and they say that two are being sent back to Korea because I was not home to receive them. I do not understand why this happened.
But they are lost. My hogwon director will receive them after I've left (MNR next couple of days) and they will have my home address on them in bold print.
I am vexed.
This place has simply been one unmitigated disaster after another for me. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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Perhaps I have missed the point but are you blaming this unfortunate happening on
1. the Korean Post Office,
2. yourself for not being there to receive them? or
3. US Post Office for sending them back when they could not effect delivery? |
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Col.Brandon
Joined: 09 Aug 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| That's why they invented Fedex and UPS. |
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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| DHL is fast, effective, and available everywhere. Plus there website here is in English. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
| Perhaps I have missed the point but are you blaming this unfortunate happening on... |
Relax. I'm pissed off and ranting. It's not an excersize in international politics or nationalistically-derived blame. In any case, why would they leave two at the house, but return the other two?
I use FedEx and DHL all the time, but not for large amounts of books. Cost is outrageous.
I went to the post office and they said that all four boxes were undeliverable. I said that that wasn't true, that my house was looking at two of them. So I had to call home and confirm the tracking numbers because their data was inaccurate.
Once that was taken care of, I had a friend talk to the post office in Korean, because I was getting no where with drawings and hand movements, and they will turn the two lost boxes around again, presently in Pusan. They say it will take about six months to get back to me in the States.
Yes, I'm pissed that there is no option to leave the box at a house if no one is home. UPS does it.
Almost everything has gone wrong since I arrived in this happy country, and I'm at the point where I want someone's head. Amost any head will do. Maybe I'll buy a chicken and sacrifice it like they do in Brazil's northeast. |
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mercury
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Pusan
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 3:34 am Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| Wangja wrote: |
| Perhaps I have missed the point but are you blaming this unfortunate happening on... |
Relax. I'm pissed off and ranting. It's not an excersize in international politics or nationalistically-derived blame. In any case, why would they leave two at the house, but return the other two?
I use FedEx and DHL all the time, but not for large amounts of books. Cost is outrageous.
I went to the post office and they said that all four boxes were undeliverable. I said that that wasn't true, that my house was looking at two of them. So I had to call home and confirm the tracking numbers because their data was inaccurate.
Once that was taken care of, I had a friend talk to the post office in Korean, because I was getting no where with drawings and hand movements, and they will turn the two lost boxes around again, presently in Pusan. They say it will take about six months to get back to me in the States.
Yes, I'm pissed that there is no option to leave the box at a house if no one is home. UPS does it.
Almost everything has gone wrong since I arrived in this happy country, and I'm at the point where I want someone's head. Amost any head will do. Maybe I'll buy a chicken and sacrifice it like they do in Brazil's northeast. |
I have had about a thousand problems like that. It seems, however, that being in korea has caused my mind to grow another section called WHAT COULD HAPPEN. Everytime I do anything, this part of my brain kicks in, and I try to imagine all of the CRAZY things that could go wrong. When I first got here, things were ALWAYS turning out terrible. From something as simple as pointing to a huge photo on the wall of something that I wanted to eat in a pork restaurant (only to have the azuma point to the very same photo, and then bring out something from the third photo) to having the oil man fill up my NEIGHBORS oil instead of mine (now I go with the oil man, to the roof, and sit there while he fills the oil container). I actually think it has given us more critical thinking skills  |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:08 am Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
Once that was taken care of, I had a friend talk to the post office in Korean, because I was getting no where with drawings and hand movements, and they will turn the two lost boxes around again, presently in Pusan. They say it will take about six months to get back to me in the States.
Yes, I'm pissed that there is no option to leave the box at a house if no one is home. UPS does it.
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Really? That's strange, cause I know in both Canada and Korea, they'll leave a note on the door and hold it at the nearest post office for about 10 days or something. Maybe the note got lost or something though |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:20 am Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| Really? That's strange, cause I know in both Canada and Korea, they'll leave a note on the door and hold it at the nearest post office for about 10 days or something. Maybe the note got lost or something though. |
Yes, really.
I can't believe that my books will have traveled from California to Chile, then from Chile to South Korea, then South Korea to California -- to be returned to South Korea -- and now they're making the trip from South Korea to California again.
As far as why they left two boxes but returned two boxes, I have no idea. That's why I'm frustrated by this. Six more months to get them. At least I'm out of here in two days. |
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