So we have purchased some stuff to take home. Tshirts, small wall textiles, and some clothes we had made in Hoi An.<\/p>\n
It was approx 7.5 kilos in weight.<\/p>\n
So we had a dialog with the nice folks at the front desk of our hotel:<\/p>\n
Is the post office open today? (it is saturday)<\/p>\n
Yes until 9pm.<\/p>\n
Is it far from here.<\/p>\n
Oh no, only about 2 minutes by scooter.<\/p>\n
Oh. We are walking, can you give us directions.<\/p>\n
Oh no! You wait here. we call them, they come here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That had to be repeated before I grokked in fullness.<\/p>\n
They called the post office and we went upstairs to gather up the booty to be shipped home.<\/p>\n
About 10 minutes later, two women pulled up on a scooter. They had boxes, bubble wrap, tape, a post office scale, forms and bar code stickers.<\/p>\n
They gave us the forms to fill out to itemize the shipment and shipping labels.<\/p>\n
She wrapped it all up and cut a box to size, taped it all up.<\/p>\n
Pulled out a full size desktop scale, and weighed.<\/p>\n
We paid them, they put barcode stickers on all copies of the forms (carbon paper!) and on the box and our receipt.<\/p>\n
And they bundled everything up and rode off on their scooter, our box under an arm.<\/p>\n
Elapsed time from the time the desk called to the time they pulled away: 30 minutes.<\/p>\n
Gotta love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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