managing expectations
I don’t really think I expect too much from postal service employees. People bitch too much about the postal service here anyway. I mean, I mail something, it costs me forty-one whole cents, and it gets all the way across the country in three days tops, usually more like two. Here in the City it’s next day. (London was the best about intra-city delivery like that; if you sent something early enough in the day, it had a good chance of getting somewhere else in town the same day. Usually even the somewhere else it was supposed to go to.) I’m not seeing a problem. Sure, maybe not so much for overnight/express stuff, but hey. As Marx famously said, “I’m not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.”
Anyway, given the experience I just had, we’ll see if I actually get a new passport in a few weeks or not. Or if I ever see my old one again.
Also, Tuggey’s Hardware blows. They need to close that place down and get over it.
punk Said,
February 25, 2008 @ 11:54 am
for the record: it took less than two weeks for my new passport (which looks like the entire country is suffering from extreme insecurity and maybe neglect, by the way) and my old one (i had to give it to them with the app for the new one) to show up, on the same day no less. compare this to any conversation you will have for the next two years about acquiring passports, in which you have been or will be assured that, if you are lucky, the feds won’t actually show up at your house with flamethrowers and armored rhinoceri-based surface-to-loser missiles; they’ll just take longer than a tortoise’s life span to deliver your passport.
flav, as ever, had it right: do not believe the hype.