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[alexseanchai]

I shipped a shitton of books to Hellenion's librarian, Suz. The package, which I filled to the brim, weighed in at 55lb when I mailed it. (I paid a premium for media mail shipping of that heavy a box.) I distinctly remember the box containing Garland's The Greek Way of Death and Mirto's Death in the Classical World.

These two books, along with a few others I'm reasonably confident were in the box I sent Suz (and also one that I have legit never seen before in my life—I mean it's en Español! ¡Español! ¡No habla Español!), turned up today from the USPS. There is a Priority Mail address sticker on the box; like fuck am I shipping a books-only box anything but media mail. The address sticker states this address as the return and Hellenion Library c/o Suz as the delivery. The handwriting is not remotely mine. The delivery address was covered with RETURN FOR POSTAGE stickers, there being no postage on the box. How I might have got the box into the postal system without paying postage, I do not know.

Suz tells me a very full 55lb box of books has safely arrived on her doorstep.

...what the fuck happened here?

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[kittydesade]

We received a box of knitting supplies once that had two pairs of pliers in it. No invoice entry, no note, just two pairs of pliers. The box had been retaped (UPS uses cheapass clear tape so you can tell, I'm not sure what the post office does) so we just assumed it had broken open in the warehouse and the pliers got tossed in in the course of putting it all back together.

Weird shit happens in those warehouses, I tell you.