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kareinaFrom the first day I enrolled at UTAS they sent all important correspondence electronically to my UTAS e-mail address. All bills to be paid, all enrolment confirmations, all "turn in this form or you won't be enrolled" notices, everything.
When I moved from our house in Fern Tree (technically South Hobart) to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clovis_t's house in Allens Rivulet in November of last year I made a point of going to the main uni office and turning in my change of address, even though they only did electronic correspondence.
I thought I had also turned in my change of address with them when I moved from there to Italy in July.
Today my advisor sent me a scanned copy of the paper letter the graduate resource office sent me. It was a *paper* letter, dated 14 October, and sent to the address in South Hobart, where I've not lived for a full year! They did not also send an electronic copy! I can't believe they'd send something so important by snail mail. What are they thinking? Paper is too easily lost and is impossible to track once sent. This means that I've lost out on nearly three weeks of time in which I could have been making the (thankfully minor) corrections the thesis needs. If they had send an electronic copy on the same day they posted the paper version I would have been able to work on those changes straight away. Sigh.
Of course, they set themselves up for my disappointment in their choice of delivery methods--if the university had ever sent me anything in paper hitherto, I'd have expected them to do so this time. Do they really think that most phd students spend the many weeks after submitting their thesis waiting in Hobart for the examiner's results? I don't think so--most of us get a job and move on...
When I moved from our house in Fern Tree (technically South Hobart) to
clovis_t's house in Allens Rivulet in November of last year I made a point of going to the main uni office and turning in my change of address, even though they only did electronic correspondence. I thought I had also turned in my change of address with them when I moved from there to Italy in July.
Today my advisor sent me a scanned copy of the paper letter the graduate resource office sent me. It was a *paper* letter, dated 14 October, and sent to the address in South Hobart, where I've not lived for a full year! They did not also send an electronic copy! I can't believe they'd send something so important by snail mail. What are they thinking? Paper is too easily lost and is impossible to track once sent. This means that I've lost out on nearly three weeks of time in which I could have been making the (thankfully minor) corrections the thesis needs. If they had send an electronic copy on the same day they posted the paper version I would have been able to work on those changes straight away. Sigh.
Of course, they set themselves up for my disappointment in their choice of delivery methods--if the university had ever sent me anything in paper hitherto, I'd have expected them to do so this time. Do they really think that most phd students spend the many weeks after submitting their thesis waiting in Hobart for the examiner's results? I don't think so--most of us get a job and move on...