Oh, cool.
Feb 25
0:24 Dispatch from outward office of exchange
!!!
According to a member's post on a popular local forum, the package SHOULD reach my country (Singapore) in the wee hours of the morning, and then the postal service over here will deliver it in the afternoon... fingers crossed! Our postal service is quite screwed up though. They used to work Saturdays but that's no longer the case... so I reaaaally hope they deliver tomorrow!
Funny story: so last year the Youth Olympic Games were held in Singapore, and the organisers enlisted the help of quite a number of volunteers (i.e. no remuneration). As a token of appreciation, however, the organisers offered the volunteers free tickets to the F1 night race in Singapore (which happened a couple of weeks after the YOG).
The organisers kept their promise and mailed out the tickets. But the volunteers only got those tickets in the mail on the Monday AFTER the F1 night race in Singapore (over the weekend). If I remember correctly the organisers mailed the tickets out on Wednesday/Thursday or something... but standard mail delivery procedure here is that it'll take roughly three working days.
Yeah that about sums up a tiny modicum of the hate a lot of people here share for the postal system.