So that's why it's called 'going postal'.

[stillane]

I have not committed homicide today.

This is worthy of note. No, really. You see, I got up exceptionally early to run an errand, and then went back to sleep, and when I woke again it was to find an email waiting for me. This missive was from my third thesis committee member, stating very politely that she had not yet actually received her copy, and as the defense is on Monday, could I please email her a version.

The same thesis that was sent via intercampus mail about a week ago.

Yeah. Bet you all didn't know I knew words like that, huh?

Long story short, campus mail kept picking it up, deciding they didn't know what to do with it, and dropping it back off at our bio office, where they circled the appropriate destination and stopped just short of attaching a map. This vicious cycle continued for days. Only no one told me. I walked into the office to find it in exactly the same position I'd left it. Also, it's been raining all day and then some, so about noon I looked like a really, really pissed-off drowned rat with hair the size of Texas and that crazed, panicked look to the eyes that speaks of small-scale armageddon. Thus ensued the mad dash to the committee member's office at the other campus - and greyer, I so incredibly owe you one for that - and eventually it all got sorted out. With the bonus application of fudge and gummi frogs, which make everything better. Whew.

Crisis averted. I need a nap.

Comments

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Gah! I think intercampus mail offices make sure to send their most incompetent people out to deal with and lose important things like copies of theses... or internal grant checks (which happened to me a couple years ago and almost led to mass slaughter).

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Ouch. I can fully get behind the urge to massacre over that one. Last year, someone misreported my graduation date to the loan-giving sorts and I started getting notices that I was in default a full year and a half before any of them were actually supposed to come due. That got ugly.

And campus mail services have not been impressing me much this year. This is only the latest in the list of things that have gone awry on their end. I've had a couple package slips that turned up a month or so late, and a bill that showed up a whole day before it was overdue. *headshake* I fear your hypothesis is correct.