[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Got it!"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="Got it!" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525384907/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7162/6525384907_857787ec03.jpg" alt="Got it!" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

The mystery has been solved!! My friend, travel buddy and partner in crime R. sent me a package.

A special thanks to everyone on twitter who helped me figure out where in Mladost 1A I was supposed to go to retrieve my package. I might still be wandering around greater-Mladost 1A looking for the post office if it weren't for the maps and links to the Bulgarian postal system post office codes.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Block 511 in Mladost"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="Block 511 in Mladost" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525381823/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7032/6525381823_268b603cf6.jpg" alt="Block 511 in Mladost" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Clouds and blocks in Mladost 1A"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="Clouds and blocks in Mladost 1A" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525382347/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6525382347_15c7751990.jpg" alt="Clouds and blocks in Mladost 1A" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

Turns out my post office is #1729 in Mladost 1A, Block #555. Oh. I live in block five-hundred-and-forty-something but interestingly it's no where close to block #555. Pretty clearly, I am never going to figure out this numbering system. While I was wandering through the blocks in search of the post office, I did wonder: where is block 1 in Mladost 1A? And why are the streets in Mladost 1A named on both google and bgmaps but not in real life?

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Block 520 in Mladost 1A"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="Block 520 in Mladost 1A" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525383591/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6525383591_4655c6651f.jpg" alt="Block 520 in Mladost 1A" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Blocks in Mladost 1A"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="Blocks in Mladost 1A" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525384099/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6525384099_f10db40342.jpg" alt="Blocks in Mladost 1A" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

Then I wondered who spray-paints block numbers on buildings and why they can't be a little neater about things. About this point I thought: I am lost. But, there it was. Block #555.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The post office in Mladsot 1A Block 555"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="The post office in Mladsot 1A Block 555" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525382947/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6525382947_ccc6191e69.jpg" alt="The post office in Mladsot 1A Block 555" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

Things at the post office where uneventful. I turned over my slip. She looked for my package for a little bit even though there only seemed to about 10 to choose from. She found it, asked for my identity card, I handed it over, signed for the package and that was that.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Mladost 1A: a grandfather with granddaughter"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="Mladost 1A" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525384519/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6525384519_dd8b8e93d1.jpg" alt="Mladost 1A" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

I walked home with the package tucked under my arm.

<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="My second package in two days" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525385327/"><img class="alignnone" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6525385327_3bd1ecd792.jpg" alt="My second package in two days" width="500" height="375" /></a> I decided that I'd open this one. I got it home opened it to find it wrapped. So I read the card. Then I decided to save it until Christmas as well.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="A Christmas note!"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="A Christmas note!" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525385799/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7141/6525385799_9df2ae7987.jpg" alt="A Christmas note!" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

The card reads:

Ha, ha, ha.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Another package, this one beautifully wrapped from R."]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium" title="Another package" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6525386401/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6525386401_a8a1ded48e.jpg" alt="Another package" width="500" height="375" /></a>[/caption]

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