Remember how I was ranting about how I never got my replacement QuicKutz die? Now I am thinking that they did mail it after all…and the Evil Post Office lost it!
You probably came here from my main blog, so you might be familiar with the saga of the Evil Post Office.  The post office in my town is the worst one in the entire world. They have consistently lost mail, including bills. And for the longest time, they refused to deliver any mail addressed to Mike. In fact, they were shipshod about delivering mail addressed to ME for a while, after I married Mike and changed my last name. I did get my new drivers’ license when I did the name change. But my Social Security card? Still don’t have one! It’s been almost seven years now, and I have not had a social security card with my legal name on it since then.
Oh, the government knows what my name really is, as the IRS has been kind enough to send us the tax documents every year. After we got back from our wedding trip, I went and spent half a day in that oppressively hot Social Security office, surrounded by The Great Unwashed in The Waiting Room From Hell. And when it was finally my turn, I was waited on by a very nasty, evil woman who yelled at me for no apparent reason.
And after all that, I never got a new card in the mail. I had spent the other half of that day at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, and believe it or not…the palce was not only air-conditioned, but the people who worked there were nice. Howsabout that?
I got my new license in the mail two days later. So the Evil Post Office doesn’t lose EVERYTHING, just some things!
Because of all of this, Mike had to go and get a P.O. box in another town, so that we could by-pass the Evil Post Office almost completely. I should have told the QK lady to send my die to that address, but I guess I just forgot.  There’s nothing I can do about it now…if she sent it, and it got lost in the mail, that is not their fault. And since they offered to send it for free, I can’t ask for another one.
I think what I will do now is go to a local scrapbook store that sells QuicKutz, and ask if they can order the replacement die for me…they could put it in with their regular QK order. I will pay what it costs, and I can just pick it up at the store when it comes in. That way, I won’t have to worry about the mail at all.
But now I think the Evil Post Office lost yet another important piece of mail. Over on my main blog, I do paid blogging. PayU2Blog has been giving out assignments where we get a freebie from the advertiser, and then review it on our blogs. One of the advertisers is a company that is like Netflix, except it’s books. They offered a free trial membership, I signed up and added books to my queue. the next day, I got an e-mail saying that my first books had been shipped.
This was ONE WEEK AGO TODAY. No way in hell can it take that long for something to go from North Carolina to Boston. So now I am 99% sure that this package is lost forever, right along with my QK die.
The problem is…some businesses do not wish to ship anything to P.O. boxes, they require a STREET ADDRESS. Hell, we’re currently jumping through hoops trying to get Ford Motor Credit to send our monthly car payment bills to the P.O. box. We’ve only had the car for a few months, and so far, none of the bills have been lost, but one day it’s gonna happen. We really need to get them to send the bills to the P.O. box.
The Evil Post Office pisses me off SO MUCH. I hope one day, it burns to the ground, with the postmaster in it. That guy is one nasty piece of work, I have had more than one run-in with him in the past. Everybody who works there is nasty, too. I guess I’d also be cranky if I had to work for that asshole.
I hate them!
