Japan Post is great - but you gotta train them up.
Sent something today. Filled out the EMS form... went to the counter of my non-local PO...
Clerk: "Um, what's in the box?" pointing at the Detailed Description of Contents box where I wrote 'HQ power kite bar with quick release'.
Me: "Kite bar. Kite bar. Kite. Bar. Bar for kites. Control bar." Insert blank looks from clerk between words.
Clerk: "Nothing dangerous is it?"
I look pointedly at the Guidelines for Posting Stuff poster with the large, colourful pictures beside the counter, then back at the clerk.
Me: "No. Not unless you try to eat it."
Tap-tap-tap on the computer.
Out comes the glossy A4-sized replica of the large Guidelines poster.
Clerk: "Is it any one of these things? Or a lithium battery?"
I point at the check box that states 'I do solemnly swear that nothing in the box is on the prohibited items list or is in anyway dangerous' where I
have checked and signed it.
Me: "Have I checked and signed this box?"
Clerk: "Yes but is it an engine maybe? Or a gun?"
Me: "The box. Is it checked and signed?"
Clerk: "Well... yes *sniff* fine."
Now repeat a few minutes later with the value of the item - I wrote $100 and the clerk (who also works in the Post Office Bank) insisted it be written
in Yen (for the US customs?!?) didn't know the exchange rate and couldn't convert dollars to yen... she tried to devalue the product by 1,000%
I should have known better - that's the same place that has called me up a few hours later to repeat the "What's in the box? Nothing dangerous?"
interrogation.
Now, my local PO are awesome - never any hassles! And the service once it's on its way is excellent! It's just getting it over the counter
Wouldn't help. They won't see the connection between a photo of the stuff, a photo of the box, a photo of me putting stuff into the box, and a photo
of the box sealed.
Food... you tend to get what the server wants. Picture this...
It's summer. 38˚C in the shade. We go to Starbucks for a coffee... the same shop that for the past few years, twice a weekday, I've been ordering
a "drip coffee grande hot black" coffee - spring, summer, fall and winter.
So I pull up to the drive-thru, I order my hot black coffee... drive to the window and they hand me - an ice coffee. And when I hand it back, show
them my receipt, repeat my order they look at me like somehow I've magic'd a change to the receipt cos I obviously should have ordered the ice coffee
that the server has been dreaming about on this hot day!
happens about a couple of times in summer, without fail.
I do not drink sissy, milky kids drinks and nor do I drink sugary, sickly ice coffee liquid manure. And I have N-E-V-E-R ordered anything but...
grande drip coffee hot.
...
Now the sandwich ladies at the sole Subway near here (an hours' drive away) I give them a lot of leeway to #@%$#! up because they give me so much free
stuff and they are, after all, the ONLY sandwich shop around
Kami you could have a blog dealing with the locals. Between real life stuff and the things you describe at your local kite spots, I'm often laughing
at your experiences and delivery, mixed in with your willingness to make fun of others and yourself equally.
Originally posted by joedy
Should have shown them a picture of a big dildo.
-joedy
Whoa! be careful there isn't any hair pictured. Otherwise anything is ok right?
I got a kick out of watching that s1.5 17 stall and jump video. I loved doing that with mine. Even when there wasn't enough wind to do anything else
I could still do that.
Team Rider,
US40
HQ 1.4m which my 8 and 10 year old fly
Pansh Flux 2m, Legend 3m,
HQ Hydra 300 PZ depower, Neo 8m, 11m
Flysurfer S2.5 19m
Flexboardz Haize
Radbuggy
SIMS snowboard
Crazy Fly 145
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