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2007 Jul 04 [ Wed ]

Fedex shipment to Cambodia

Because regular (hah!) mail service in Cambodia is so poor, I recently arranged for some mail to be sent from the US via FedEx.

To avoid delivery problems (I certainly didn't want someone in the landlord's family to sign for it) I requested that the package should be held at the FedEx office on Monivong for me to pick it up. I also gave my phone number to be on the package so they could call me.

Well, they didn't call me, but I could see via FedEx's web interface that the package had arrived, so I went over to pick it up.

Happily it was there and in good shape (and had not been delivered next door, as had apparently happened last time when they delivered it to 701C instead of 701D Monivong) and I was happy.

The girl however wanted me to fill out the receipt form properly. "Can you write down your phone number please?" I don't have it memorized and started to punch buttons on my cellphone. She smiled and took pity on me. "Look, it's right here on the package."

She didn't ask to see any ID whatsoever. In other words, anyone knowing the waybill number could have picked it up. Hmmm.

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