yeah, i was almost not gonna do this year because of that fee
but because i can, i will, even if i have to live a bit poorer
out in the boondocks here anyway there's not a lot to spend it on, and ecom is a pain... i have to walk an hour to go collect my deliveries so i'm not keen on doing that much of it
and speaking of which, the insanity of portuguese post strikes again
supposedly they tried to deliver it but failed, according to their bullshit
but probably some other shit happened because they never are clear about anything
i'm just gonna go to the place where it's expected to arrive in a couple of days, a nice 2 hour out-and-back and my 2.5kg of hydrolysed beef powder will be there, almost certainly
i have had a very consistently bad experience with european postal systems... bulgaria was only good when it was one of the several private courier companies, they were brilliant, had collection points everywhere and always called you on the spot when they arrived
portugal everything goes through the government monopoly post office and it's a joke, they are so incompetent and slow
rich west european country vs "corrupt" poor east european country, who will win
bulgaria is sliding downwards though, every year i was there it got steadily worse
i bet it wasn't actually much worse when it was communist, it's probably now worse than the typical communist days of the 80s.. they destroyed their money in the 90s and then it was reset and everything was cool for another decade and by 2020 it was already reverting to communist grade bullshit
