helloooo there

you got it right la :)

and to make you very very very happy, in addition to enlarging your katherine tag i will do something else that i know you much anticipate >=)

i know i'm so nice (A)

mens rea - guilty mind.

after all my instalments regarding my manipulation of Australia Post with my mail experiment conducted with katherine, my subconscious self must have felt guilty.

why? because just then, checking my mail, i received an email from Australia Post.

and guess what was the first thought that entered my head? it was kinda jumbly but it was something like: omg AUSTRALIA POST? they must know that i've been messing around with their system! they must've managed to use RELATIONAL DATABASES and navigated around them and found my email address connected to my home address! oh dear.

then i look at the subject. EPIPHANY. right. oh. ehee :)

on the topic of ipt invading my everyday life, i think my internet's dead today cause this commonly occurs:

DNS SERVERS OMG.

AND asynchronous communication annoys me when my friend (*cough**cough*katherine*cough**cough*) gets my text almost 10 minutes after i send it.

P.S.S. i'm wondering if anyone will point out anything about one of my screenshots BY COMMENT. it's nothing unusual, just something stuck in my head. if you do - chances are it'll be by luck - i'll give you an entire post and TAG ENLARGEMENT :D

Fifth Instalment: SUCCESS!

as the title reads . . . WE HAVE REACHED SUCCESS!

today, after school, Katherine Fan finally received her letter addressed to her from me posted in a mail box nearer to her home . WOW. at 4:14pm my phone received her text reading 'I GOT YOUR LETTER'. i guess you can imagine our excitement at the fact :)

so therefore only two hypotheses prevail:

1. the post office simply mails the letter to the address that is nearest to them, writing RTS (return to sender) when the from address is nearer (which should be in most cases?)
2. the post office does not bother about returning to sender, etc. and simply mails it to the person for you (this will render RTS a . . . MYTH!)

yay! we have cut it down to 2 :) now in order to distinguish between them, my next run will be posting a letter TO katherine FROM me in a post box nearer to MY home . if the letter goes to katherine, the second will prove true but if it returns to me, the first will be.

and katherine is currently editing out the addresses of her millions of photos that she took of the letter and envelope . . . i am awaiting her email containing the final images. when i get it i will add it here :) and she will provide her in depth account of her experiences on the other side of the mail in the form of a comment to this post. hopefully :)

here are the photos! flickrrrr - remember to tell me if links are broken!

Fourth Instalment: A Second Run

if you are confused about what this is about, read:

First Instalment: The Letter

Second Instalment: Failure

Third Instalment: A New Hypothesis

so having all my hypotheses proved wrong except for my last addition of the postman mailing it to whichever address is closer, I finally got around to testing this hypothesis yesterday :)

I ventured (yes, ventured) to Hurstville and mailed the letter :) WOOT! Theoretically Katherine's house would be closer to Hurstville unless the closest post office branch is closer to my home .

kudos to Katherine's photoshopping skills . . . the address is GONE.
security issues, you know.

this time the letter was addressed TO katherine's home, FROM my home with no postage stamp.

Prediction: The letter will be delivered to the TO ADDRESS - Katherine's. It will have the same orange markings and weird printed code on it.

If that is so, then that will prove my current hypothesis correct. However if the letter is posted back to me or otherwise . . . I WOULD HAVE RUN OUT OF HYPOTHESES rawr.

so yeah :) keep yourself updated on this blog as you await my results :D thank you for reading me advertising.

and no, you did not just realise that you could go straight to Katherine and ask if she got my letter. no.