Well, okay...not exactly the postal system. A more appropriate title would probably be "Lack of adequate communication has caused a rather troublesome issue with the postal system"...but that would be far too long of a title for a post that's not bound to become a paper for some university professor who likes painstakingly accurate titles.
Here's the story: as you all know, we were packed up and moved across town a few months back to a new school and a new home, with a new mailing address. Shannon was ever so kind as to send out the address we were given to many of you, and even sent out some letters with that address on the return. Since that time, we've only received ONE piece of mail that was supposed to have found its way to us.
We asked our boss if she could look into it for us (to no success), and in the process, found out that the address we had for the new school (which is where we have our mail sent, in theory) has been wrong the entire time. Combine that with the fact that our school changed names shortly after we arrived, and Koreans don't seem to do the mail-forwarding thing, and it actually ends up being a small miracle that even that one piece of mail made it through.
We've done little bit more looking, and it seems that any international mail that can't be delivered gets held for about a month (but is impossible to retrieve without a tracking number), and then gets sent back across the pond...by ground. So, to anyone out there who may have replied to a letter, or may have sent us a care package since April, you'll likely see that returned to you over the next 8-10 weeks. We apologize profusely for the confusion (and believe me, we're still quite confused over it), but fortunately, at least the mail is not completely lost (again, in theory).
If you happen to be thinking to yourself, "wow, that's crazy. If only I could sent those two a letter..." fear not! We finally have a proper mailing address!
Please feel free to send any and all cards, letters and delicious Canadian snacks to us at:
Shannon & Darrell Nevers
DYB Edusol 1109
4th Floor Shin Sun Tower
Gwanjeo-dong
Seo-gu, Daejeon
South Korea
This is Darrell, signing off!
Adopted to Belong
13 years ago
1 comment:
Wow, I am REALLY glad we didn't send you that package that we're sending yet! That would have entirely defeated the purpose of mailing it to you if you didn't receive it! Not to mention paying the postage on it twice. Ewwww.... I thinking about all that gross food in those poor packages!
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