I went to check my mail at the post office today and was happily surprised to see a parcel card in the box. I wandered over to the post office counter, and the clerk informed me that I’d have to pay $6.44 plus GST (note: after July, this same transaction will cost more due to the incoming HST). As I was expecting a few different packages, I paid the fee, and the Postie returned with an over-stuffed envelope. From the logo on the return-to-sender portion of the envelope I knew immediately that it was the prize I won for being @Telus‘s 4,000th follower on Twitter.
Pictured: The meerkat, the envelope, and my receipt.
Immediately after I posted about this on Twitter, the nice representative Direct Messaged me, apologized, and offered to reimburse me for the expense. I declined (as, after all, a matter of ~$7.00 isn’t worth taking their time over). Besides, it’s actually pretty funny – I regularly get ‘bent-over’ by my cell carrier, Rogers (get it? Bent over? Rogers? Rogered? Huh? Come on, it’s funny!). At least Telus apologizes when they do it accidentally!
