some things do change....

My "favorite" resident is not one of those things, but I have spend enough time writting about him online. So nothing has been different about today concerning him.... But today was the last day he was in charge of sending us home!!!!!!!
After we managed to get away and leave the hospital I went to the post office, because I could just not believe the numbers the online calculator had given me after I had put in the estimate weight of my to-go-to-Germany-box.... Back in the old days there were options like ground mail, slow boat, book boxes..... I could not find any of that online and I thought I might go and talk to someone in the main post office! But when I got there and talked to the guy and had him punch in the numbers he had the exact same face that I had yesterday.... He told me media boxes can only be sent within the US (so even though it was a great hint from my favorite American mother, it won't work....) and there is not ground mail to Europe anymore. They do everything by plane.... Maybe they should reconsider that, not just for poor college students, but also to give the environment a break... There are people in this world, who do not need things to have arrived yesterday, there are still people (even though hard to believe) who do not care if something gets somewhere within 10 or 20 days..... But appearently everything has to be delivered fast today....Anyway I have already talked to my credit card and if you hear a loud cry on Friday, you know who it was....... ;)
So no more ground mail to Europe, no more book boxes, reduced weight limits, raised fees for overweight..... Let's see what they'll come up with next to make things harder and more expensive for poor college students.... ;)