Missent to Myanmar

The post office assured me that it was no problem to forward mail internationally before we left. We have probably received about 30 pieces of mail total through mail forwarding until last week. Last week, I received a HUGE stack of mail the other day – more than 60 pieces of mail in a bundle. This stack included quite a few Christmas Cards sent in December, as well as correspondence from Wells Fargo informing us that our house was in foreclosure. We already did know about the foreclosure, fortunately, but not in time to cause extreme stress and headaches. Wells Fargo had made a mistake in our automatic billing (well, they essentially cancelled it for no reason), and while admitting their mistake, had refused to correct it. We finally had to get an attorney in the states to get them to agree to fix our credit, waive all fees, etc. Ugh. We will be avoiding Wells Fargo as much as possible from now on.

We had wondered why we hadn’t been receiving mail, like the Wells Fargo letters that we'd never received. But when looking closer at the stack of mail we received the other day, we noticed that each envelop had a stamp on it that said “Missent to Myanmar”. All of our mail had been forwarded to the post office in Rangoon, instead of Namibia! So we had quite a few pieces of mail that took 4 or 5 months to reach us here in Windhoek - and this is all well before the tragic cyclone that hit Burma a few weeks ago. The only explanation we can think of is that Myanmar (aka Burma) and Namibia are next to each other in the alphabet, and when sorting the mail they are accidentally putting it into the wrong country’s mail slot.