BLOODY BLOODY HELL. what IS with the post office and my books? my aunt sent me four boxes of books from north carolina but wrote me to say that at the post office they "asked a lot of questions about a box that has chinese texts on it." the box was previously used by a chinese correspondent of my uncle who sent him well i don't know what it was she sent but anyway that accounts for the chinese markings on the box. my aunt told them the box contained only books, but reported that the post office people were still "very nervous." so today the books arrived and sure enough the fourth box was missing. this REALLY infuriates me i am a bloody grad student books are my livelihood! if the post office or the us customs is always trying to hold up my boxes how am i to get on!?! shouldn't they be going after mail explosives and diamond smugglers? BAH!