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Three weeks ago, I visited Tulsa to see one of my best friends - Matilda - graduate from ORU. She is from Sweden and while packing her bags for the return flight, she realized she simply could not fit a small stack of pictures in her bags (3 of the 4 bags were already 20 lbs. overweight and nearly bursting at the seams. You can imagine the travel fees she racked up.) So I calmed her fears and proclaimed that I could just mail them to her. "Really?" -"Sure. No problem."
Back at the Lewises place in Louisiana, the post office is on the other side of town. It took 3 weeks before I was able to make the long journey. I got ready one Monday, only to realize I didn't have her address. After several phone calls, Skype attempts and emails, I got a hold of her in Sweden.
Confident that I now had all I needed, Bekah and I decided go to the post office the next day - she needed to mail a stack of envelopes and buy stamps. So, at 4ish we were finally ready and headed out to my car. From the pool Ahava yelled, "WHERE ARE Y'ALL GOING?" Annoyed, Bekah answered, "TO THE POST OFFICE!"
Suddenly, I realized aloud, "Oh no! I don't have the package! That would have been a tragedy." Bekah laughed, "Oh my gosh, Katie! Seriously." ...and then realized she didn't have her envelopes. We sheepishly scurried back to the house, gathered our items and ran back to the car.
We finally made it to the post office (we brought a book to read out loud for the car trip). We got our things and made it to the door, only to realize - it's 4:34 and the post office closed at 4:30. Dumbfounded, we stood there staring at the posted hours on the glass door, then looked at each other and began to laugh. Bekah ailed, "Man! This is the 2nd time I've done that this month! I can't believe it!"
We ambled back into the car. "Hey, isn't there a UPS or FedEx store on Cypress?" I asked. Bekah responded, "Yes, you're right. Let's go there." We found the FedEx store and Bekah got her stamps - which she had to pay $8 tax for b/c it was a FedEx place and not a USPS. I walked up to the counter and told the man I needed to mail a package to Sweden. He stared at me and said, "We can't do that here." - "Oh, okay. So you can't ship to Sweden?" - "No." ...I later asked, "So out of curiosity, why can't you mail this to Sweden?" -"I don't have an international postage machine here."
Fabulous.
"Hey isn't there another mail store - a UPS - on Cypress?" I asked Bekah. -"I don't know." -"I think there is! Let's find it."
And hooray, there is a UPS on Cypress! I walked up to the counter, "Hello. I need to mail this package to Sweden. Can you do that here?" The guy gave me a blank stare, "Uh..." A kind lady walked up from behind , "I think we can do that, hun. Let me check." She went to the back. (tick tock, tick tock) She looked at me uncertainly, "We can mail it, but it will be $14.78." -"Okay, great!" With relief she finished the process and handed me my receipt.
So how easy it to mail a package to Sweden? From Louisiana, it's just that easy!
