Friday, February 06, 2026

2 changes

I told a cousin of mine in Michigan, that I would put together a pen drive out of the research I have done and send it to her. I just wanted someone else in my extended family to have a copy of it for the future. So, I put it in a nice little box, wrapped it up very nicely, and took it to our local post office to mail it out. That was when I received a surprise. The postal Clerk behind the class wall in for me that they were no longer able to send packages to the United States.

Of course, I asked her why, and she explained that it was due to the changes Trump had made in border security, which meant we could no longer send packages to the United States. The only thing we can send our documents. Naturally, it pissed me off that he has had such a negative effect on many countries, not only Poland. My only alternative is to see if FedEx or UPS is still shipping packages to the United States. I'd rather doubt it.

Okay, that took up the first hour of my 2-hour break today.

In the second hour, I had to get a scan made of our voter registration in the United States and send it back to the clerk at the county where we are registered. I went back to the shop where I always go only to find out it was no longer a shoe repair shop that also gets scanning, but now it was a key production place, and all they did was make keys. That presented a problem for me, because I had a limited amount of time to search for a new place, a new copy shop, or as they call it in Poland, Kesero.

Using my cell phone, I was able to locate one very close to where we live, so I immediately drove there. It's in a little shop on Main Street called Dabrowskiego. From the ground level, you have to walk down five steps, and that's where the shop is. I had to have two papers scanned, the total cost was about one and a half cents. Very affordable and close to the house, so that was a plus.