We have many sayings here. The one I use the most is , "nothing is easy here." Getting something shipped here is never easy. US postal service only. And the company has to ship to an APO. Some do, some don't. The funny thing is that a company will say that " that item can't be shipped to an APO," while the next company will pop it into the mail the next day. Hear that Amazon? We have UPS, FEDEX and DHL here. What ever you buy, multiply the cost times three and that will give you the shipping cost.
We have been mandated to do annual physical exams here. Which includes 12 lead EKGs and audiograms and specific labs. We shipped stuff DHL and they lost it. Well kinda lost it. It made it here, but they put it in their yard; outside in 120 degree heat. Sensitive medical equipment. Our supply people went to each of the shippers yards and looked at every package. Sure enough, there was our stuff. We were missing two things. Those were give to somebody to bring with him. We bought him an airline ticket to Dubai and then the stuff was handed to two people coming back from R and R to bring with them to KAF. Very Midnight Express. So we have been planning for months for this. It has been very intense in the past two weeks. It didn't help that I have been sick. I am feeling much better, but every now and then I just run out of energy, still. But we have all of the stuff that we need. Our new fancy lab machine has been calibrated. We have a new exam room, crammed full of ekg and audiogram machines. So we scheduled 5 people for their physicals. How many of them showed up? Zero. Nada. Zilch. Really? Turns out that 4 of them were on R and R and one just didn't care. Oy vey.
Back to the drawing board. I would order an EASY button but it would cost $100 to ship it and FEDEX would lose it.....
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