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One for the techies here
May. 15th, 2008 11:23 pmA post I did on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
techsupport about a particularly egregious example of moronity that has come to light at work today.
In other news, I picked up my Irish passport today! Phew! No stinky long immigration queue at Heathrow for me - just the somewhat-less stinky long immigration queue. The fun part of it all was that the passport was sent registered post to my old address (I had provided a SASL for the embassy), despite the fact I have a 6-month redirection in place for mail from my old place. I rang the embassy on the off-chance today due to the huge delay, and it had been returned to them as it was "undeliverable".
I went to the PO once I picked up the passport packet (the embassy offered to put it in the post again - no effing way!), and the guy there was unable to give me an explanation as to why it hadn't been redirected. I asked whether he could input the tracking number on the registered post envelope into some system for, er, tracking information - apparently not. He was able to ascertain that it had been lodged at the GPO (which was actually the nearest PO to where I used to live) for a while - I'll go there tomorrow to find out what went on. Leaving aside the fact that my passport was going hither and yon all over Canberra for no good reason, what else that should have been redirected has been slipping through the cracks?
techsupport about a particularly egregious example of moronity that has come to light at work today.In other news, I picked up my Irish passport today! Phew! No stinky long immigration queue at Heathrow for me - just the somewhat-less stinky long immigration queue. The fun part of it all was that the passport was sent registered post to my old address (I had provided a SASL for the embassy), despite the fact I have a 6-month redirection in place for mail from my old place. I rang the embassy on the off-chance today due to the huge delay, and it had been returned to them as it was "undeliverable".
I went to the PO once I picked up the passport packet (the embassy offered to put it in the post again - no effing way!), and the guy there was unable to give me an explanation as to why it hadn't been redirected. I asked whether he could input the tracking number on the registered post envelope into some system for, er, tracking information - apparently not. He was able to ascertain that it had been lodged at the GPO (which was actually the nearest PO to where I used to live) for a while - I'll go there tomorrow to find out what went on. Leaving aside the fact that my passport was going hither and yon all over Canberra for no good reason, what else that should have been redirected has been slipping through the cracks?
