Change of Address

Here are the kids giving their best "Oh no!" face.

That's because on Friday we picked up a packet from the post office containing several Christmas cards and a note from someone dated October 2013!!

While I always try to keep current contact info on my e-mail signatures and in our newsletters, it occurred to me that not everybody reads those details and we might want to make a special note to point out our change of mailing address here. ;-)

A little background

Until our move to the village, we gave out Mandi's post office box as our mailing address.  If we knew we had a package coming, he would check the box for notification slips and deliver them to us.  We would then walk to the central post office and show our ID to pick up our packages.

BUT, as government budgets grew tighter, the PO started cracking down on folks who didn't pick up their packages in a 'timely manner' and they started assessing us multiple "storage fees" in the amount of about $15 per box for boxes that sat more than a week without being picked up.  On at least two occasions we believe that our slip was either put in another PO box or not delivered at all.

Then we moved out to the village and picking up mail became even trickier as we could no longer slip on our walking shoes and head to the office -- it involved a coordinated plan to make a trip into Tirana, figure out parking and/or driving around congested downtown streets while I waited in line inside, sometimes as long as 20-30 minutes depending on the time of day.  Yeah.  Pretty stressful.

We quickly decided the most logical solution would be to take advantage of a mail service provided by the evangelical alliance (AEP) of which we are members.  For a variety of reasons we didn't use this service while we lived in Tirana.  But now we are requesting that you send our mail to AEP who visits the PO daily (thus no storage fees) and they can hold it for us until we get into Tirana.

Our new mailing address is:

AEP

KP 119

(Attn: Nathan Waggoner, Box 19)

Tirana, ALBANIA

That's it!  And hopefully, we won't have any more of these faces because your mail was delayed in getting to us: