Postage, Parcels, and the Price of Sanity
A parcel was sent from Poland. Inside: clothes for grandchildren, lovingly selected by a grandmother. Value: £40. Cost to send: £16. Customs charge to receive: £15.96. Welcome to the bureaucratic absurdity of modern "logistics." Once upon a time, parcels were about connection. A thread between generations, cultures, hearts. Today, that thread is entangled in a [...]
