Back on the 4th I mentioned the Minimig I ordered on the 27th that, in theory, was to arrive on the 6th.
Oh, how wrong I was…
See, in this globalist utopia of nations without borders and third-world manufacturing, things still need to go through customs to ensure all of the fingers in the pie get their piece. And this makes customs its own little circle of bureaucratic hell.
Here’s what my dev board’s trip has looked like so far:
You’ll notice the “Missing Mail” note on the 11th…
This was me taking a hint from the dozens of threads in r/USPS and r/USPS_complaints about Chicago being a postal black hole and suggesting that an official missing mail search often gets packages moving again…
Basically, it’s as close to “I want to speak to your manager” as you can get with the postal service – and it worked! In as much as the package started orbiting around Chicago again…
Anyway, the moral of this story is: Don’t Ever Ship Anything Important Internationally Via USPS… Spend the extra $10-$20 for an actual parcel service like UPS or DHL.
Listening to "The Mountain" by GUNSHIP