Yeah, it was about time that I wrote another chapter of my upcoming book “The Never-Ending Story of the U.S. Postal Service and me”, wasn’t it? (← Just kidding about the book deal, but I seriously have enough material to write a book. But then again, who wants to read...
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{source} I’ve talked about my “special” relationship with the Postal Service before. I am not sure if my bad luck is to blame on the disproportionally higher number of mailings I tend to send out than the regular person or if I give out some sort of bad vibes into...
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I’ve been quite busy the last few weeks. Busy with all kinds of exciting – and not so exciting – things. The non-exciting things: – trying to stay on top of the household chores. I really don’t know how our tiny apartment can accumulate that much dirt/dust over the course...
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Or so I hope. If you can read this, this means I am finally back online after a very annoying, frustrating and lenghty server change following the shut down of my blog by my former host company. I have still not figured out why exactly they decided to suspend my...
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I think all postal delivery services have ganged up on me. It’s getting to the point where my experiences with the postal services beggars all description. I had ordered a case for our camcorder through Amazon at an Online Store at the beginning of April. The order information stated that...
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Remember how I mentioned HERE that I had received a package from my parents and that it had been opened and resealed and that someone had taken stuff out of it? Well, after my Dad talked to people at the Postal Office in Germany and they told him that I...
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On Wednesday, I drove up to Ventura to spend a day with my mother-in-law. She had talked about taking me to the Thrift stores and honestly, I didn’t really care too much about it, because I thought they would be ordinary “second-hand” stores with a lot of crap. Boy, was...
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Seriously. I have been in Germany for almost 10 months now. 10 MONTHS! Now there are 9 days left until I get on the plane to move back to the US and in with my hubby and all of a sudden you want to see me one last time again....
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Seriously. Why are some people so damn insensitive and impudent sometimes? I don’t get it. Didn’t their parents teach them manners? Are they freakin’ insensitive on purpose and think that nobody notices? The Mom of one of the students that I tutor [yes, indeed the same Mom I blogged about...
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So, I received another letter from the Deutsche Post [= German Postal Service = GPS] again on Saturday. This is going to be harder than I thought. They’re willing to pay me a compensation of € 35,40. Ha! They call this a compensation? This is ridiculous. I am not willing...
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