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30th June 1999      manasvi @vsnl.com

Dear friends of the list,

I am living here in India as a foreigner..
My experience of today I like to share with you.

Today I received a registered airmail parcel from Germany, posted on
May 26, 1999.
Although the date stamp of office of exchange by 6829 Kochi Foreign was
given on June 5, 1999, the air mail parcel was delivered to me more than
three
weeks later only, on June 29.
The postage for such an airmail parcel cost around INR 1,400 (!).

The two main items of the parcel, two software CD's, were missing
(Caere OmniPage Pro 9.0 Upgrade, around INR 7,000; -- PowerQuest
PartitionMagic 4.0, around INR 3,000).

I have no doubt that my complaint will be treated with all the
bureaucratic lavishness.

Living here since 6 years I doubt very much that the main problem of
recovering the two CD's will be successful.

Any objection?

manasvi
	

30th June 1999      [email protected]

i understand the disappointment you must have faced for nto having 
recieved the complete stuff, keep cool and hope for the best.
love and God bless,
sk


Suraja Kishore
Mudra Institute of Communications,
Shela, Ahmedabad 380 058 (Gujarat, India).
Phone: +91-2717-31946 to 31951
Fax : +91-2717-31945
E-mail: [email protected]

2nd July 1999      [email protected]

dear manasvi,

thanks for sharing your experience with us.

i had a similar experience on a registered letter sent from chennai to
baroda. it had twelve idbi interest warrants (2 groups of 6 warrants for
similar amounts). when i received the reg. letter in baroda, these warrants
were missing and the cover was all torn up.

i went to the bank where these warrants were to be submitted and informed
the manager about the incident and also that if and when these warrants are
submitted by somebody. i also went to the local post-office and gave them a
piece of my mind. i also said that i am planning to submit a written
complaint to the post-master at the main post-office.

i had lost all hope of ever seeing these warrants again. but surprisingly,
we received a letter from the bank-manager about a week later in baroda,
containing 6 warrants. about ten days later, the remaining six warrants
were received by the sender in chennai.

i think the postal dept. is playing these tricks. i had been receiving such
torn envelopes for quite some time, but ever since my outburst at my local
post-office, there has been some improvement.

so, for your part, put in a written complaint to everybody, you think,
matters. do some follow-up to keep up the pressure. if you are lucky, you
may get back your cds. else, at least, this will ensure that such incidents
do not happen again.

as the mtv catchline goes "we are like that only". but take heart - india
is not all that bad. there are some unforgettable and good incidents which
happen and which you can experience only in india.

...pravin.

3rd July 1999      manasvi @vsnl.com

Dear Pravin,

thank you very much for sharing your expierience, too, -- and for the advice
given.
I am glad to hear that you got a positive response to your complaint.

By the way: In a way it is true that I expierience here things that I
expierienced up to now only in India -- for the bad and for the good.
Above all, I simply love India (Kerala). And this is one of the reasons why I
felt it makes sense to share this incident.

manasvi