Friday, June 19, 2009

arg!!!!!

I am more than a little upset this morning... we got an email from the admin at mit saying fedex won't ship our boxes... something crazy about norway not allowing you to ship "personal effects" like used clothing into the country. which doesn't make any sense to me. Basically i'm really ticked for a couple of reasons.. reason number 1, which is really my own fault - had i known this, i would have packed completely differently. (obviously.) basically when i packed, it didnt matter to me whether something went into the boxes or the suitcase i was taking, so i just threw stuff wherever. which means, currently, i have lots of pants but only about 3 shirts, for the entire summer. i just figured it didn't matter because we thought the boxes would be here around monday at the latest. The 2nd, and worse, reason i'm upset about the current situation - All my "to do" stuff is in the boxes. i have three months worth of books, my resume stuff i needed to be working on, some important emails, all my running gear, and our norway tourguides. So right now, i have three months and literally nothing to put myself to work on. (and yes, i do need the running gear in order to run more than 3 miles. it has my diabetic pouch, my shot bloks and gels, my yoga mat...) And i just finished the only book i brought with me today. Grrrrrrr.

3 comments:

  1. Seriously!? That seems crazy. You think they'd be more hesitant to receive commercial goods, rather then personal effects. I mean, how much can used clothing be worth anyway??

    I'm sure you'll figure it out!

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  2. That's horrible! Is there anything you can do to get your stuff???

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  3. I think so...as my contact at the Norwegian Research Council said when I emailed him..."The notion that personal effects are some sort of prohibited item in customs is ludicrous." For some crazy reason, FedEx considers them prohibited, but I think that the US postal service will ship them. Unfortunately, MIT doesn't have a USPS discount, but at least we will get our stuff...hopefully...

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