Pat Barry wrote: > Nice delivery system... > > Much superior to our post office or UPS, FEDEX I'm sure... > > What do the Yank's know about package delivery? This sounds much more > efficient... > > You decide... > > Yes, for sure a bunch of geniuses down in Argentina > > > > Something about Latin America has a way of turning simple tasks into > almost farcical comedies of human nonsense. Yesterday, Peter got a X-mas > package notification so we're both all excited to go and get it, because > neither of us has gotten a package in forever. Seems simple enough > right. First, we walked the 8 blocks to the Subte (Subway) because the > system here is pure shit. The subway map here was laid out by a retard. > All the trains meet in one place, and then fan out like sun rays with > almost no intersections, which is great if you want to get to the main > hub, but even going a few blocks in the perpendicular direction is damn > near impossible. Sometimes we take cabs to a certain Subway stop, > because there's no other way to get there. > > Once we arrive at the main hub, we walk another 4 blocks, where we see > the post office. But it's on the other side of a 10 lane highway. > There's no crosswalk, so we just fucking make a run for it in our flip > flops, following the local Porteno's who we assume know what they're > doing. Outside the post office is an army of hot dog vendors and grills > cooking up burgers, an ominous sign that the people inside need food > breaks they've been there so long. Inside was pure madness, a mob of > people hovering over a few postal workers calling out numbers. But this > was just the beginning. Through an arched doorway is the second waiting > room, where hundreds of people sit fanning their sweaty faces. At least > 2 babies are bawling inconsolably. We take a number and begin to wait. > After about 10 minutes I look to the woman next to me and see that she > is reading a book in English. So I ask her, "hey, I see you're reading > English, maybe you can help us out,....what the hell is going on here?" > What she tells me blows my mind. Basically she laid out the process of > receiving a package here in Buenos Aires. > > 1. Show up at this madhouse and take a number. > 2. When they call you, give them the slip of paper you got in the > mail and show them your government papers. (We don't have these.) > 3. They take your name > 4. You sit in the big room with the crying babies. > 5. They call your name. > 6. A customs official takes you in the back. > 7. They open your package in front of you, and estimate it's value > 8. They give you a price, which you CANNOT PAY RIGHT THERE!!!! > 9. You go to bank, where you make your payment. > 10. You come back and do the whole thing over, showing them the > receipt from the bank. > 11. They give you the package. > 12. Your eat a fucking hot dog and go home. > > If you're lucky the whole thing will only take 2 days, and about 8 hours > of your time. So yeah, Argentina sucks. Don't send me a package because > I won't be picking it up.
Even better, just don't come here. We don't want yankee sweatbacks in our yard. So please tell your friend to go back to lovely USA. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
