Playing the Waiting Game

I am on the way back home. Little Lo is fast asleep and my bag is full of apron patterns and fabric that I cut out over the weekend. I forgot my phone in Gabi and F's car on Friday when F (Gabi's husband) dropped me off. Ugh! I hope no one was trying to get in touch with me.

But today is the waiting game. The USPS has to call me and let me know when the PD releases our packages and stuff. Until then, I wait. And pray that our apron swap partners and organizers understand this awful situation. We really are tyring to make this right. I am going to spend the morning sewing, and then I have to go to work in the afternoon until early Wednesday morning. I really hope the USPS contacts me before I have to go to work. That would be great news. I could go to the post office in the city were I work. :O)

I am so ready to get all of this behind me. I feel bad that we have had all of this issues. But there is nothing left for me to do but to remake the aprons and make sure everything gets mailed out from the city. I just have to wait for the other stuff to be released. Because they need to be washed and ironed before I will send them.

I should get going. Little Lo is waking up and we are begining the descend, which means we are almost home. Little Lo's grandparents will pick us up. And then I am off to my house. BTW, I am using J's blackberry. It is a little crazy posting from it, but it got the job done. :O)

XOXO

2 Days of Nothingness

I feel like I just spent 2 days doing nothing at all. In reality, I spent the 2 days looking through those big crates at the post office. You know the ones, they are like 8 feet long, 4 feet high, and 4 feet wide. They are on wheels and the USPS uses them to move the mail. Yeah, my neighbor M and I spent 2 long days looking through 8 of those. She has an eBay store. And I was just trying to claim all of our missing packages.

Initially, I thought this was going to be quick. I figured I would look through a few boxes, find what was mine and the girls, and get to take it. Not at all. Since we sent so many packages, and almost all of them are missing, there was a lot to go through. M and I had a lot of things to go through. A LOT!!! And even more paperwork to add to that.

In reality, we shouldn't be so upset. M makes a living by selling on eBay. She pretty much has had little or no income for the past 3 months. I feel really bad for her. Yes, it is also important to us, but we are swapping, not making a living here. Either way, it should be completely cleared up by next week.

For a while, I think I am going to avoid swapping. One, I feel bad. Two, I don't know what people will think if I try to swap again. Three, I am so exhausted trying to track down everything. I love to swap, but when the USPS is having issues, it just isn't worth it.

XOXO

Finally!!!

I finally got a meeting set up with our Post Master General. Why? Because we have been having some serious issues with our mail. In every capacity!!!

A few years ago, we had some major problems. So much so, we got a new Post Master General. And things had been going fairly well. Until January. Now we don't get mail for weeks at a time. Then we get one of those crates from the USPS full of mail. The other day, the neighbor brought over an entire bag of mail that was ours, not hers.

I have also been sending packages...and they are not getting to the places I send them to. At first, I thought maybe I had a swap partner who was just saying they had not received their package. Then Sarita stopped getting the things I was sending her. Seriously, I have been sending her packages to the hospital for 3 years. I never had issues until now.

Then I would go to the post office, and no one would have answers for me. Not a single person. I even had some packages that had a tracking number, and they were showing they had been delievered to the address. But my partners were telling me that hadn't received them. Even one to my 3 year old goddaughter. I knew something was up. But with this swine flu outbreak that I had to work, school, finals, and now clinicals...I didn't have time to check up on all of this.

But I did write a letter to the Post Master General. I mean seriously, not getting mail for weeks, having lost packages, and when I do receive packages they are opened...I have not been happy. So we set up a meeting...on Thursday. He assures me that it will be straightened out before I leave. I have all of my receipts ready...all of them! And I am going to get answers of what is going on.

I am so mad, so mad that they charge the amount they do. And then I get this bad customer service. But enough about that until Thursday. I got to get back to L&D...we have a full house today!

XOXO