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Anyone know how to get things back from the post office?

News just keeps getting worse and worse: my last shipment of books and sundries from the UK arrived yesterday with a big 'DAMAGED IN TRANSIT' sticker from the Port of New Jersey. Missing are my Kenkyusha Japanese English Dictionary and Nelson's Japanese English Character Dictionary. Take a look at the price of the first one and you'll see why I'm so upset. And did I put insurance on the shipment? What do you think?

Oh well. At least I got to feel good reading Alice's entry on filing over at Who Stole the Tarts?. Good to know someone else is such a packrat of paper, and I can feel smug as I've finally integrated my American and English files into one file system.

Posted by Anthony on July 9, 2003 8:33 PM | Permalink

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The 5th edition of the Green Goddess is apparently finally available after, what, 25 years? So you could just buy the new one. If we're lucky, it might even be available on CD-ROM. As for getting stuff back from the post office, after 30 days you can fill out a form listing the missing contents, and they search the Mail Recovery Center for it. I was lucky enough to get some stuff back this way, but it arrived in rather soggy condition. Don't know about international mail, though.

Posted by: Susan | July 13, 2003 3:22 PM

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