This is a cautionary tale with a large portion of humour. Read it at your own risk.
My son is happily hanging out in Montreal in a share house. He’s demonstrating a commitment to fit in by having French lessons. Prior to his arrival in Montreal he passed through several of his favourite US cities visiting the local ball parks and watching the great American game.
In New York he attended a game and bought himself another bobble head. Some dude nicknamed Thor who plays for the Mets. He purchased some odds and ends for his family and took them all to the USPS, bought himself a cardboard box and mailed the contents to Australia. Or so he thought!!
He posted two parcels around the same time and the first arrived without a problem. “Where was the New York parcel?” I hear you ask.
My son finally checked the tracking and discovered his parcel had been sent Austria! Hands up who laughed. Who guessed the plot twist?
My son messaged me and I saw the funny side of the predicament. I asked him where it had been sent and he told me Vienna. I responded with “Oh, Vienna!” All I got was cricket chirrups.
It gets worse. When he contacted me his parcel had been to Austria then returned to the US and then re-sent to Austria. And the US leads the Free World. Someone in Austria displayed some initiative and re-routed it to Australia where it arrived intact today.
Well mostly intact.
These items survived.
Alas the Peach cup from the Nintendo shop didn’t.
My son is happily hanging out in Montreal in a share house. He’s demonstrating a commitment to fit in by having French lessons. Prior to his arrival in Montreal he passed through several of his favourite US cities visiting the local ball parks and watching the great American game.
In New York he attended a game and bought himself another bobble head. Some dude nicknamed Thor who plays for the Mets. He purchased some odds and ends for his family and took them all to the USPS, bought himself a cardboard box and mailed the contents to Australia. Or so he thought!!
He posted two parcels around the same time and the first arrived without a problem. “Where was the New York parcel?” I hear you ask.
My son finally checked the tracking and discovered his parcel had been sent Austria! Hands up who laughed. Who guessed the plot twist?
My son messaged me and I saw the funny side of the predicament. I asked him where it had been sent and he told me Vienna. I responded with “Oh, Vienna!” All I got was cricket chirrups.
It gets worse. When he contacted me his parcel had been to Austria then returned to the US and then re-sent to Austria. And the US leads the Free World. Someone in Austria displayed some initiative and re-routed it to Australia where it arrived intact today.
Well mostly intact.
These items survived.
Alas the Peach cup from the Nintendo shop didn’t.
