A Trip to the Singapore Post Office

A couple of days ago, we received a note under our door that there was a piece of registered mail from StarHub (our cable company) that we had to pick up from the post office. After seeing it, we spent the first ten minutes discussing how much we missed having a doorman who would collect all of our mail and dry cleaning, open the door for us, and make sure we had it on our way home from work, whatever time that might be.

This morning, we set out to find the post office, figure out what in the world our cable company could be sending us by registered mail, and buying stamps (well, that was more of an Erin mission than a we mission).

the good news is, the post office is only a block from our house. The bad news is it took us at least 5 blocks of walking to find it. Finally, we did, and I must say they make the US Post Offices look bad. It was not crowded, we did not have to wait in line, the Air con was blasting and the place was pretty clean.

So, we present our slip to collect our registered letter, somewhat confused and somewhat hoping it was something good. I immediately rip it open and what did we get?

$40 in McDonalds gift certificates.

Wait for it....

no, thats it, just McDonald's gift certificates. What the hell are we supposed to do with $40 in McDonald's gift certificates?