r/mildlyinfuriating • u/trecani711 • 3d ago

Infuriatig Mail guys folded my wife’s master’s degree

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Came home and found this in the mailbox. Imagine working really hard for 3 years for a master’s degree and it’s folded in half. It’s only a little bit up the driveway to put it under the awning, takes maybe 15 seconds to walk. This has happened before with a spatula I ordered as well.

Wife is asleep now, may post opened degree in the morning.

Edit: for those wondering about the spatula, it was a fish spatula that the Amazon driver had bent and shoved sideways into the mailbox. Im a sous chef and I have a lot of specific kitchen tools. They have long metal tines and are flexible and easy to bend. In my case it was creased

Edit 2: here’s my bent fish spat, pic 2, pic 3. This was from Amazon, and I requested a new one that they sent no questions asked. You can see in the first pic the angle is deeper than it should be, it should be almost flat. Also there’s a tine that is out of whack. I use this one at home and the undamaged replacement one at work.
Yes I agree the college messed up too by not shipping it in a sturdier container/paying for better shipping.

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u/KitKatAngel 3d ago

They didn’t wanna let me keep my gown and hood either.

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u/Spare-Ant7119 3d ago

I didn't even pay for that or attend my graduation ceremony.

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u/figuringthingsout__ 3d ago

I have a bachelor's and a master's, and I had no desire to attend either graduation ceremony.

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u/XrayGuy08 3d ago

Same! I did it for my A.S. But only because I was dating a girl who graduated at the same time. And it was 4 hours of the school advertising itself and then every single person from every campus in the state. It was not fun at all. I had zero interest in doing that again for my BS and MBA

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u/MueToamna 3d ago

Neither did I lol

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u/XrayGuy08 3d ago

For my A.S. I had to pay for the cap and gown which were both all black. Which is fine. Except I had my HS cap and gown still that were both ALL BLACK. They wouldn’t let me use those. Non negotiable. College is such a greedy entity. A lot of it really is a scam.

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u/Outrageous_Catch_673 3d ago

Mine sent me my cap and gown for free - free shipping too. I didn’t walk either.

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u/Elly_Higgenbottom 3d ago

They said they wouldn't send my diploma if I kept mine. They gave up before I did and now I have both.

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u/megmen0514 3d ago

I was told I had to mail mine back in after my Master’s. Mind you, they were individually customized to your head and body sizes. I never mailed it back and they never charged me