Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Still "Rockin"...in Albania

Last night...9:15pm....another earthquake...5.1 magnitude.
1...about 16km from Durres (where most of the worst took place on November 26)
There was a short 4.1 shake a few minutes later.

I was not quite asleep...but felt God's protection as slept well the rest of the night. 

NO...this doesn't make me laugh...I have recently met people whose lives were devastated in November...and still have no place to live.

It is quite an interesting thing...to suddenly find myself living in an earthquake zone. That is a first for me.

Pray for our nation...for our people...!

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Postal service....


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The next time you think about the quality and speed of the US Postal service, consider the Postal services in Albania.
I returned a defective cell phone to Amazon, at the main post office here in Tirana. I did obtain a "tracking number" for verification to Amazon that I did in fact return the cell phone. I did the postal transaction the morning of Jan 20.
Today is Jan 23, and according to "tracking" my package has now been put into a transport bag in Tirana.  It has taken them 3 days to put it into a transport bag...no wonder it take 4-6 weeks for letters and packages to get to the US...if they get there at all.

No...we don't have reasonable access to FedEx or DHL...well we can use the services, but it is not worth paying more money to ship with them than the item is worth.

"Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Dark Of Night Shall Stay These Couriers From The Swift Completion Of Their Appointed Rounds."