Once more, with feeling
Ughh! Getting everything ready for University is a prolonged nightmare with all the postal interruptions. I have filled in my loan forms and I need 3 pieces of identification and address verification. Also, I am waiting for my bank to send me 3 months of bank statements which is supposed to take 3 days but has so far taken 10.
Basically, every single step in starting this course has been lengthened x4, because of Royal Mail’s postal strike. Mail gets to my Frome address just fine… but London? Forget it! Apparently there is a black hole between here and the postal depot which means nothing is getting through!! I have resorted to getting everything sent to Frome and then sent special delivery by my Mum to me in London, as that’s the only thing they can guarrantee at this point. Efficient huh??
Mention anything postal related to me at the moment and I suddenly become super bitchy. I can’t help it. There is a massive chance that this strike is going to cause problems for me starting uni as I am expected to PAY my tuition fees 4 weeks before I start, as enrolment is the 7th January that makes my deadline December 14th.
Because of all the previous delays I have already had (it took me about 8 weeks to receive my loan forms) unless my statements arrive *now*, get sent on to Learn Direct and then immediately approved, and then by some MIRACLE the money is instantly cleared in my account in the next 11 days… I am screwed.
Again, I would like to say a big thank you to Royal Mail on the behalf of the whole of the UK. Of course I would have sent it in writing… but I actually wanted you to get this message before February -.-
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What a pain in the arse. Public services shouldn’t be allowed to strike, but I understand why they are doing so a bit more after reading this: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n18/maya01_.html
It doesn’t make up for the fact that my copy of Uncharted 2 is late though…
December 3, 2009
Thanks Luc, I will have a read of that article
Uni is always stressful without this extra bonus ontop! I am just going to have my fingers crossed and hope that Royal Mail enlist Superman to help with the mail backlog! That *should* help your copy of Uncharted 2 get to you quicker?
^_^
December 3, 2009
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