Today I went to a post office in Ireland to pick up a parcel. The parcel was sent through AddressPal and it wasn't for me, it was for my girlfriend. She's ordered some knitting crap or some other frivolous shit from Amazon.

Anyway, I tell the lady at the An Post counter that the packet's not for me, that I'm picking it up for someone else,. Suddenly her face contorts into Munch's Scream and all the blood drains from her face. Her more jaded colleague leans over and explains, "You can't pick up this parcel because you need an agent authorisation form."

So I go home and I look online and I can't find this special goddamn agent authorisation form. I can't find it on the AddressPal website, I can't find it on the An Post website, and even goddamn Google can't find it.

So I emailed AddressPal, and thankfully they sent me a copy of it. Here it is:

Yes, believe it or not, this is what they sent me. I didn't blur it; it already looked like that when I received it. Yes, apparently this piece of shit is the official AddressPal agent authorisation form. I swear to god, I think they made it in MS Paint. The quality is shit (no surprise considering it's a 16 kb JPEG). Also the word 'authorisation' is cut off so it just reads 'authoris' and the whole thing seems to be squashed horizontally.

Edit on 2 Feb 2017: So I just discovered that the authorisation form was at the bottom of the "ready for collection" email all along.

So all this has been my girlfriend's fault, not An Post's! She was the one who received the email. She obviously didn't read the email properly. Sorry, An Post.