USPS: US-residents only?

[Mario]

I've had this problem before: I want to contact USPS regarding a parcel. Problem!

The parcel in question was shipped via 1st Class Mail International which is not trackable, but at least the system registers if the parcel has been dropped at a post office. Usually. After that the tracking system only states 'in transit'. Usually. None of this happened this time. The only info I get is 'electronic shipping info received' and that's all. The sender told me that he shipped the parcel on March 24. I just wanted to know from USPS if this happens every now and then or if I should better start to get annonyed. Trouble is there seems to be not a chance for non-US residents to send them a mail as it's required to provide a valid US address. Any workarounds? Or maybe I'm just blind and dumb?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

give 'em 418 North 6th Street, Lafayette, IN, 47901

it's a real address. Not your real address, nor yet mine, any more. But a real address it is.

bk

 

[Cobden]

I can't see why that wouldn't work, though I myself would use 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, DC 20500. Should make the blighter's sit up!

 

[Mario]

give 'em 418 North 6th Street, Lafayette, IN, 47901

it's a real address. Not your real address, nor yet mine, any more. But a real address it is.

bk

Thanks.

Did you live there?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Yes. Nice old Victorian Manse. Very high ceilings. $400 a month back then (2003-2007)

 

[Mario]

Was that $400 for the whole place or just for a flat?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

It was for the upper floor - 2 bathrooms, 2 bedrooms, living room and kitchen, 14-foot ceilings made it very cool in the summer, though a bugger to heat in winter. Detached house with neighbours on one side only. Indiana's a cheap place to live, if you avoid the crummy newbuild plasterboard apartments …

bk

 

[Mario]

Looks pretty neat. Of course Google provided me with the Street View link and I really wanted to know where I'm actually living at the moment...

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I see my mini herb garden by the left side of the porch has gone a bit wild. The landlady was very pissed, for some reason, that I had planted mint. I guess it does have a tendency to overgrow.

bk

 

[Mario]

Maybe she was simply afraid that you'd prepare the most dreaded dish from all the highlands & islands (well, except haggis maybe): mutton with mint sauce...!