Malaysia POS...

[Monday September 2nd]
Irony, yes that's it. Its pure irony... So I went to the Malaysian Post Office. In Malay their word for Post is Pos. They also capitalize it as POS. So its not a Post Office but rather a POS Office. Even their website is clearly and unambiguously www.POS.com.my. They just call it POS.

So since I failed to get postage the other day on a Holiday... I decided to try to get it today over lunch. My poor unsuspecting colleagues who took me out to lunch... We drove to Sunshine Plaza to grab a bite to eat. After arguing over the parking price, we went straight to the POS. Once there we were taken aback by the droves of people! I took a ticket, it was 1289. Unfortunately for us they were currently serving 1200. We decided to go eat and come back and see if they caught up. You may be asking yourself, "Hey, why didn't he just buy stamps at the [Grocery Store|Gas Station|Stamp Vending Machine|Office]?" Well none of those are options here...

After a hearty meal at McD's (yhep, McD's, we felt like skipping out on the Hawker food for a day). We returned to the POS and found they were only serving 1233... Ugh, I began waiting in the Parcel Line. Well the line seemed to be moving quick so I chose to commit to it. Once the line got me close to the POS counter the ladies in front of me magically had several packages each. Now nothing is automated at the POS and there was a quite a bit of paperwork for *each* package. To make a long POS story short... Our lunch out took 2 hours, any we all know McD's doesn't take that long...

They collected my 50sen per stamp (~14 US cents) and I was on my way. Gosh, I hope they post cards make it! Tell me how mailing a letter in the US to the US costs ~40 US cents but mailing one from Malaysia to the US only costs ~15 US cents? Somehow I suspect that even though I went to the counter and showed them my postcards with the destination clearly labeled, and requested airmail, that they won't make it... ;(

Irony...
-Terry