So my friend calls me today. A money order of 
hers has gotten lost in the mail. So I was 
like, "OK, you can get a refund, you have the 
receipt, right?", and she replied yes. But here's 
where she tells me the details. Here's the story.

She gets stuff from the Taro sale. Sends out an 
IPMO. It gets lost. The post office takes an -
eternity- to track and refund it. Stephen is nice 
enogh to wait. She gets a -new- IPMO, scans the 
receipts, and sends it out. 

The NEW IPMO is the one that's now been lost. 
She -still- hasn't gotten her Taro sale cels yet 
(-I- thought she'd received them long ago), and 
Stephen is getting angry at her (understandably), 
and so he wants payment in 7 days.

So now she's very upset, and doesn't know what to 
do (she told me the rough amount, about $350,and 
I have to say, with her budget (or with 
anyone's), it would be -impossible- to go out and 
just buy another IPMO while she waits for the 
refund). She's a poor student, so that's a lot of 
money. She said she's e-mailed the USPS and plans 
to go to the post office, but I doubt that will 
prove fruitful.

Does ANYONE know what I can do to help her? She 
doesn't come to this forum, which is why -I'm- 
asking you guys. I figure everyone here has been 
through something like this, experience is the 
best medicine.

I just feel so bad, I can't even begin to 
understand what kind of anger she must feel to 
lost such a big money order in the mail TWICE. I 
mean, she has the receipts to prove she sent 
them, so what else can she do but wait?

Does ANYONE know of a way to pry that type of 
thing out of the post office within 7 days?

-Misha

(BTW, my friend is named Corey...I'm trying to 
get her to start posting here, but she keeps 
forgetting ^^;; I helped create her gallery, 
since she's not good wiff html, so that'll be up 
soon. Debbye, you might know her, she bought a 
Chihaya cel from you!)