The Post Office
Trip Start
Dec 10, 2006
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Trip End
Jan 07, 2007
Jaisalmer,
India
Saturday, December 16, 2006
After bargaining and going from shop to shop to select the right gifts, we were ready to walk outside the tourist area and go to the post office. When we got there, the postal workers said that we needed to go to the market to have someone package the gifts for us. So we walked back to the market, were a tailor shop took about an hour and a half carefully wrapping the gifts and sewing a white canvas bag to put the package in. In the middle of the whole process, the tailor shop owner came back, cursed out his workers and said that they were doing a poor job. He re-did our package himself, hand stitching the final components together and sealing the stitching with wax! He said we needed it to be sturdy and that we would see why. . .
We returned back to the post office but they told us that they closed early. We saw that they were helping other Indians so we argued with then that they are actually open. The postal workers said fine, they are open. We filled out the necessary paperwork and decided to have the package sent by sea. Then the postal worker took great pleasure in throwing our package down on the floor repeatedly while he grunted with satisfaction. We now knew what the tailor shop owner had meant that the package needed to be sturdy.
I guess disgruntled post office workers are a world-wide phenomena ;)
This entry is dedicated to the many post office hours that Claudia, Jerry, Pete and Barb worked in their youth... tee hee!
