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May 13, 2008 | news
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The picture of "Belarussky railway station" I took quite long time ago (in May 2004) and now I think that it can perfectly fit to finish my recent story about the case with wrong parking that I started to tell you several days ago. You can read the first and second part of this story here:
"A case with wrong parking (Part I)"
"A case with wrong parking (Part II)"
...A short time later, after seeing my wife off to her work at the hospital very early in the morning (7 am) and while it was still night in Austria, I went downtown to take some interesting photos during the last repetition of Victory Parade on the Red Square I met on Tverskaya street one photographer from Minsk (capital of Belorussia) and one from St. Petersburg and during the parade was able to relax a little bit from the current problem. I returned back to my home about noon and received a phone call from Alexandra and she informed me that she called the airlines and was told it would be almost impossible to fly their luggage to Austria without a passenger. I excepted this information and called DHL where they quoted the price to deliver the 40 kilos of luggage to Vienna for about $900. In addition, I had to prepare an inventory list to declare every item in their luggage for customs. It was a crazy price, but I was not worried about it. The most undesirable thing was that I had to open all of my client's bags to make this inventory. I hope you understand how hard it was for me to rummage though somebody else's things… At the same time I called the Sheraton hotel where my clients stayed for 2,5 days in hopes to find any information about how a hotel could handle the problem if they had to send lost luggage of their clients abroad. The answer was that they don't provide these services and advised to send it via DHL or Russian Post (I knew these answers, of course, to send via Russian Post could be cheaper, but it can take quite a long time to deliver, maybe 2 weeks or maybe a month and also I had to declare every item for customs).. After speaking with the staff of the Sheraton Palace hotel, I got a great idea: I remembered our old, very common and well-known way of sending parcels, papers or any luggage via railway using the services of the conductor of a carriage of the train which goes to the place where you need to send something. When I called the railway station for information about such services, they suggested I talk privately with the conductor...
Continue reading (end of the story): "A case with wrong parking (Part III)". |
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