Last week, I received mail from Austria. Not that this is newsworthy, of course. What is somewhat worthy of a post is that the letter came sealed in a plastic bag with a sticker on it:
The sticker essentially says that this piece of mail was damaged somewhere on the way and that a special division of a post office somewhere in Saitama took it upon themselves to glue the envelope back together without touching whatever was inside.
They did such a good job that I cannot even see where the envelope was damaged. My friend who sent the letter said that everything had arrived as planned, so I guess there may have been a small tear in a corner somewhere or maybe the glue at any of the flaps didn’t hold up.
So far, I’ve only received water-damaged mail with stickers saying that the post office had dried the letter. This was always obvious, other than now. Oh well, Japan. Good to know that my mail is safe and will arrive in the best of all possible conditions.