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You can email me at :  Also, if you're paranoid, my pgp key can be found here but I might be slower to respond seeing as I would need my laptop (I trust no other computer with my secret key). My phone number is +255782484720. I am on East Africa standard time, so if you call at 3AM the conversation might be a little disappointing. You can also send a text. All incoming calls/messages are free to me. You can send me mail here: Jacob Gallagher PO Box 9123 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania However, I will only get it if I go to Dar or somebody nice brings it from Dar to me. Send me an email and I'll give my actual address. Peace Corps policy says I can't post my exact whereabouts on the internet. And to quote a blog who quoted a blog who quoted a blog: "There are a few things you can do to help hasten and secure the passage and delivery of your mail. Have anyone sending you a card package scribble religious symbols and biblical quotes all over the outside of the box. This sounds silly, but it works. Though many of the countries in which the Peace Corps serves are largely animist in religion, superstitution runs high and even corrupt postal workers are wary of intercepting religious parcels. Along every step of the way, your mail will be subject to the whims of postal officals, customs officers, and delivery personnel who often take the liberty of rummaging through care packages in search of goodies from the U.S. If you mail is embellished with religious symbols, the odds of keeping it intact are improved. You may even want to ask the sender to write "sister" or "brother" before your name, to the heighten the effect. Another trick is to have your mail addressed to you in red ink. I've been told red ink is somewhat sacrosant in many third world societies and is reserved for only the most official of letters and correspondances. Though I'm unsure about this explanation's validity i can vouch for the trick's effectiveness, having seen serveral packages addressed in red ink delivered safely and expeditiously." |