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farewell, BC

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Today was the day I changed my address with all of the various outfits and institutions that know it. I also had the satisfaction of cancelling my crappy Telus mobile phone service. And the experience of cancelling my BC Hydro account, which was an entirely pleasant affair in which I was even promised a letter of reference because I was such a good client.

When I went to the post office, I was greeted with the usual confusion and contradictory instructions on forwarding my mail. In the end, I decided to sit back and enjoy the show as the two staffers sorted out how it worked what exactly I should do. I can only pray that the fellow who lived in my building before me didn't use that service, cos I'm still getting a small old-growth forest's worth of junk mail for him every week. One amusing touch was the request for ID just in case I was doing this to someone 'as a joke'.

That thought amused me. Maybe if you have $30, try going into the Shopper's Drug Mart near you and screwing with someone's mail.