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October 19, 2004China Post
F*@#ing China is all I can say. I've had a hell of a day, but to top it off I just found my mail returned to me. Last week I went to the post office to send off my tax return. Well low and behold the post office looked at me blankly. Why would a post office sell envelopes??? I finally found an envelope, packaged up all my docs, wrote in Chinese on it and thought I was all set, surely the post office would sell stamps. Now I can say they only just sell stamps. They stock only the 0.8 RMB stamp, for those who care the stamp costs more to make than the paper it's written on. So as I was sending mail to Australia via air my bill came to 36.6RMB. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to imagine what the envelope looked like by the end of this stupid charade the post mistress was carrying out. And then it still took 3 bloody days to make it's way 200m up the hill straight back to the return address. Tomorrow for shites and giggles I will take a photo from the school gate and you can see the damn stupid post office. Not happy Jan!!!! Comments
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