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What, pray tell, is the point of putting a tracking number on a package if one cannot actually track it?
Last week I sent off an application to consolidate my graduate loans. Since I wasn't full-time this last semester, my grace period has been passing since January, and I'll be entering repayment on the 24th of this month. The interest rate is noticeably better if one consolidates during the grace period. As the matter was, therefore, one of some little urgency, I sent the application priority mail with delivery confirmation.
Well. According to the tracking interface on the website, my package never left the local Post Orifice. I asked the Post Orcs about this. After much hm-ing and frowning, Orc 1 determined that all might be made clearer if we asked Joan. Joan was with difficulty extracted from The Back. She frowned at my little slip of paper, ignored the information on it to ask me when and how the package was mailed, and then told me in essence that if the web tracker had no information, neither did they.
Grarg. Now I need to decide whether to hope the package gets out of the Elsewhere or to pay fifteen dollars I really hoped to spend on other things overnighting a new set of forms.
Last week I sent off an application to consolidate my graduate loans. Since I wasn't full-time this last semester, my grace period has been passing since January, and I'll be entering repayment on the 24th of this month. The interest rate is noticeably better if one consolidates during the grace period. As the matter was, therefore, one of some little urgency, I sent the application priority mail with delivery confirmation.
Well. According to the tracking interface on the website, my package never left the local Post Orifice. I asked the Post Orcs about this. After much hm-ing and frowning, Orc 1 determined that all might be made clearer if we asked Joan. Joan was with difficulty extracted from The Back. She frowned at my little slip of paper, ignored the information on it to ask me when and how the package was mailed, and then told me in essence that if the web tracker had no information, neither did they.
Grarg. Now I need to decide whether to hope the package gets out of the Elsewhere or to pay fifteen dollars I really hoped to spend on other things overnighting a new set of forms.
