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Daily Discussion Thread: 🪭🐈🫧🍽️ Wednesday 4 December

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I wanted to set up a mail redirection in case I forget to change my address for anything over, but wouldn't you know it - not allowed to do that while you're under. For "legal reasons", they say

Sorry for the rant, if anybody read it. With all the talk about these social media bans, on top of the issues with buying knives, and now trying to get a fricking mail redirection I'm really feeling like I keep slipping through the gaps and am getting left behind by half brained ideas thought up by privileged people
- It’s not a small issue, you’ve been cheated of both the supports you should have had but also of the right to do necessary things for yourself.
  
  I guess. It just feels weird and kinda self absorbed that I'm so angry about not being able to redirect my mail, while half the DT is just struggling to get by
- I somewhat get it. I moved out as a minor and had some of this nonsense. Difference was I had a lawyer for a father who could hand over a business card and mostly make the shit go away. Sorry.
- depending on your spoons, if you're a big enough pain in their arse and keep pestering them about it, they can and fucking will make exceptions.
  
  I'm sure gonna give it a try
  
  did a bit of digging and they absolutely have special dispensation for DV, deceased estates and victims of natural disaster, but it must be a "special request"
  might have to actually call them, or go to the GPO - lpo are franchisees, I don't see them having the authority to kick it up.
- so many hugs
  
  ♥️
- ...you've got time to turn things around.
  This feels uncomfortably close to a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality... 😔
  
  It's just that you keep putting it on them, as if they need to be the one to "turn things around" when their rant was specifically about external systems prejudicing them. They can't "turn around" AusPost's decision to deny them the ability to redirect their mail?
  Basically, they are trying to ask these systems for help, and are being denied. So why put it on their shoulders? Why not be outraged that someone is falling through the gaps, through no fault of their own?
  I get that you have good intentions here, but I feel like you're kind of missing the point in a big way...

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