Mail from Colleges

[the_wanlorn]

People are receiving their housing assignments. Which mean mine will be here soon yay! I hope I A) Get a room in... uh... that building that I wanted... and B) get roommates that have LJs. So that I can go snoop through their past entries and figure out what sort of people I'll be trying to kill in the dead of night sleeping in the same room with. On the other hand, I was supposed to get some sort of confirmation package in the mail about orientation. Like, two weeks ago, apparently. Guess who never got it? Yeah. Me. Fuck. So I just shot off an email asking about it. I figure it's one of two things. The CowTown post office has lost/not delivered mail for us before. As in, perfectly addressed mail. It sometimes shows up months later or we have to go down and say "I was supposed to receive X in the mail Y weeks ago. Is there any chance it's hanging around here forgotten in a corner or something?" and then they go find it for us. I hesitate to ask if it's all that hard to sort mail and put it in the correct boxes. I mean, for all I know, it is when you're doing it all day. But really! Second thing is that the fuckers at NEU might've (and probably, since this happens far more often) addressed it wrong. Here's a quick lesson for y'all. When an address is as follows: Erin McLaughlin PO Box 666 666 Devil's Lane Cowtown, MA 00666-0666* It is not okay to leave off the PO box. Mail doesn't get delivered if you try to send it to someone without a mailbox next to their newspaper box. Sending something for me to "666 Devil's Lane/Cowtown, MA/0066-0666" is the same thing as saying "Please don't deliver this Mr. Postman. You can return it to sender or not**, but make sure that the only way the recipient will ever find out about it is through a friend. Thank you!" In conclusion, I hate post offices and I hate large orginizations that send me mail. But Mum's going down now to see if there's anything for me in there. *crosses fingers* *Address changed to protect the innocent. **A lot of MassAcademy mail got lost that way. Either they didn't bother sending it back to MassAcademy or MassAcademy didn't give a rat's ass that all the mail they were sending to me was being returned to them. Luckily, that was sorted out.

Comments

[caecilia.livejournal.com]

I like that MassAcademy is now one word.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

Heh heh. If you listen to people saying it, they say it like it's one word.

Which is a really tricky thing to say, I suppose, since who gets to determine the right pause between one word and the next?

OH GODS STOP ME FROM OVERTHINKING THIS

[diznienerd.livejournal.com]

i haven't gotten mine yet :-/ ... i keep asking the NE representative and he keeps saying "its coming its coming"

[crazyasitsounds.livejournal.com]

[desired-writer.livejournal.com]

Hey... I saw you're in kennedy 222, i'm in 220 and apparently we are neighbors :)

i also never received a confirmation packet about orientation, northeastern seems to send things out at random *shrugs*

-nikki