The mail came…a pile of junk, and a “Welcome” letter from WGBH thanking us for our donation and enclosing a temporary membership card.  Oh, and the asshat mailman left my Proactiv box, which was shipped a week ago, on the porch; the mofo couldn’t even be arsed to knock on the door.

I’m trying to figure out, though, how the hell WGBH got THIS address…when I made the donation, I put down the P.O. box addy on their website.  I also put the membership in MY name…but the welcome thing came addressed to both me and Mike.  That part isn’t a problem, but the fact that they sent is here is.

Mike had a membership in his name several years ago, but that was back when we had the old P.O. box in Cambridge.  It was useful when he was a student at MIT, but a pain in the ass to get to now.  So we got rid of it and got the box at the Good Post Office that we have now, one that is in a more convenient location.

But I guess ‘GBH had the home address, maybe because mail got forwarded here after we canceled the Cambridge P.O. box?  And I also had to give out the street address, because it is still the billing address for my debit MasterCard from our bank.  I have to go and change that soon, before my card expires in June, so they can send the new one to the GPO.  So I’m guessing that they purged their files, figured out that we were a married couple living at the same address, and sent the mail here, addressed to both of us.  But still, I am POSITIVE that I gave the GPO as the mailing address.

After I made the pledge, I was able to set up an online account at the ‘GBH website.  I did it in my own name, with the GPO addy…but when I logged in today, it was in Mike’s name, and the mailing address was the house.  Who told them to do THAT?  And he NEVER had an online account with ‘GBH, he always mailed checks for his pledges.  I set this account up myself, with my own username and password, and now HIS name is on it?  And the wrong address?

I’m pissed.  I did change the info on the account online, but I also fired off an email to the ‘GBH members-only email address, explaining that we CAN’T be having shit sent to the house, and explained why.  I asked them to please make sure that the members’ magazine, thank you gift DVD, and any further mailings be sent ONLY to the Good Post Office.  Otherwise, there’d be no guarantee that we’d EVER receive it.  Somehow, I got this one piece of mail, but usually it’s hit-or-miss.  And Mike really wanted that Irish Pub DVD that we picked for the thank-you gift.

The thing is, when I try to explain to people why we can’t get mail at home, very few people believe me.  Other people can get mail at home, just not people in this shitty town.  We pay good money to have the P.O. box, and I fully expect people to use it, and not the home address.  Sending anything to my home these days is almost tantamount to flushing it down the toilet…why bother, if I may or may not get it?

Hopefully, the ‘GBH people will get back to me and assure me that all of the stuph will be sent to where I originally asked it to be sent.  If I get one more piece of mail from them sent here, I doubt I will renew next year.

But if the Evil Post Office weren’t so fucking EVIL, I’d not have to be worrying about this shit.

Oh, and you know that book from Amazon, the one whee I have a tracking notice that says that it arrived at the EPO facility at 4:30 AM, YESTERDAY morning?  Still not hear yet.  Guess it was too much trouble for the lazy-assed mail carrier to deliver that AND my Proactiv package on the same day.

I hate them.