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Mar 22, 2010
Scholarship lost, thanks to postal delay
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WITHIN the country, SingPost's service is efficient. Mail goes where it is meant to go, from one Singapore address to another Singapore address.
With international addresses, however, it is another story.
When I applied for my overseas university, my mother did the wisest thing and sent my documents via Federal Express.
A good friend of mine used SpeedPost, the quickest way to send documents overseas within his budget - and, as a result, he has just been disqualified from a scholarship which would have helped him tide over an overseas education.
The reason: SpeedPost did not get the vital documents to the destination, the University of Oregon, on time. In fact, a two- to three-day mailing option took a week to get the scholarship documents out of Singapore.
My friend was already a needy student in Singapore, but now SpeedPost has made him an even more needy student in the United States, because of its failure.
Leong Mei Poh (Ms)
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Scholarship lost, thanks to postal delay
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WITHIN the country, SingPost's service is efficient. Mail goes where it is meant to go, from one Singapore address to another Singapore address.
With international addresses, however, it is another story.
When I applied for my overseas university, my mother did the wisest thing and sent my documents via Federal Express.
A good friend of mine used SpeedPost, the quickest way to send documents overseas within his budget - and, as a result, he has just been disqualified from a scholarship which would have helped him tide over an overseas education.
The reason: SpeedPost did not get the vital documents to the destination, the University of Oregon, on time. In fact, a two- to three-day mailing option took a week to get the scholarship documents out of Singapore.
My friend was already a needy student in Singapore, but now SpeedPost has made him an even more needy student in the United States, because of its failure.
Leong Mei Poh (Ms)
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