She also has been doing some shopping for used computers and parts. It's a pity we didn't have a chance to do some of this a couple of weeks ago, because so many places will only ship by UPS/FedEx, and Lisa hates shipping things to her father's house when I'm not around. The packages tend to get lost, and once she found neighborhood kids about to make off with a package that had been left on the doorstep. Stuff shipped to the PO Box doesn't have this problem, but it's very difficult to format an address in a way that UPS will deliver it to the post office. (It's apparently possible to do so, but many times the presence of a box number in the address will cause the shipper to balk even before shipping the package.) When Mehama's post office was inside the local hardware store it was much easier because we could give the address of the store and both shippers and shipping companies could understand it. Now that the local contract office has closed and the boxes for Mehama have been subsumed into a section of the neighboring Lyons office (it's less than 1 km away), shipping has gotten more difficult.
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Clearing the Decks
She also has been doing some shopping for used computers and parts. It's a pity we didn't have a chance to do some of this a couple of weeks ago, because so many places will only ship by UPS/FedEx, and Lisa hates shipping things to her father's house when I'm not around. The packages tend to get lost, and once she found neighborhood kids about to make off with a package that had been left on the doorstep. Stuff shipped to the PO Box doesn't have this problem, but it's very difficult to format an address in a way that UPS will deliver it to the post office. (It's apparently possible to do so, but many times the presence of a box number in the address will cause the shipper to balk even before shipping the package.) When Mehama's post office was inside the local hardware store it was much easier because we could give the address of the store and both shippers and shipping companies could understand it. Now that the local contract office has closed and the boxes for Mehama have been subsumed into a section of the neighboring Lyons office (it's less than 1 km away), shipping has gotten more difficult.
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Meanwhile, in Finland...
Turning to one of my other corporate hats, this year's Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards were announced earlier today at Finncon in…
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Photos from Finland
Ellen Datlow has published a whole lot of FinnCon photos, including a bunch of the anime costumes and the convention guests, including Cheryl.
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Dispatches From FinnCon #8
This would appear to be the final report from Finland. Wish I could have gone myself. It's not like I was doing much this past weekend. Monday was…
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