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Hello everyone,
In England. On Friday 2nd my final hand in for my degree was submitted by another group member (group project). Unfortunately there was difficulties accessing the submission and the lecturer claimed in an email on Wednesday 7th that he had tried to contact all 4 group members through both teams and email to no avail and was now copying us in using our personal emails asking the school office for our personal phone numbers. We have since checked and he only attempted to contact 2 of the 4 members a few hours prior to the email.
The issue with the submission has since been sorted however I was convinced that this just have been a breach of GDPR at most and at the very least unprofessional and against their policies. I raised my concerns with the school office about my phone number being given and they checked with their GDPR officer who said that we have already consented to our phone numbers being used and I accept that.
What I would like to know specifically is whether there is a responsibility to have used the official contact methods before trying to obtain personal numbers especially as I do not have a good relationship with this lecturer. He has since admitted in emails that he had in fact only contacted the student that made the submission on teams only despite the fact we have screenshots of him contacting another non-submitting member on teams only and more importantly, contradicting his earlier claim of contacting everyone on both teams and email. He said he only contacted the submitting group member as further group contact was unnecessary but he still found it necessary to ask for all 4 of our personal numbers.
Thanks in advance

applied originally in march and just got my passport yesterday! having the number to locator 69 was definitely the game changer, the ladies who helped me were the only helpful people in this whole process.
by some grace of god, I received my passport in time, despite things going wrong literally ever step of the way.
my last passport was a limited validity passport because I had lost my passport twice in the prior ten years. it expired in mid march and given the limited validity passport, I couldn’t just apply for renewal via the mail. I had to apply for a new passport at a passport acceptance facility.
I live in NYC and couldn’t find anything anywhere in the city.
3/17: appointment somewhere up in westchester at a passport acceptance facility. as I was driving there, they call to tell me the person who processes passports is out sick and they’re cancelling all appointments for that day
3/24: found another appointment up in westchester that I ended up having to cancel due to a health issue
3/31: finally make it to the appointment at a different passport acceptance facility. clerk gives me application to fill out, I fill it out.
5/15: get an email from the Passport Center saying that I submitted the wrong form. apparently I filled out the passport renewal form for which I wasn’t eligible instead of the new passport form. freak out. honestly I don’t think I really looked at which application I filled out, I just filled out the one the clerk had given me and assumed it was the right one? which was a mistake on my part
5/16: got another appointment at the same passport acceptance facility to reapply. brought the letter attached to the email since it said to mail it with everything else. read over the letter with the same clerk who processed my first application. reapplied
5/16: reached out to congressman and senator. never heard back from congressman.
5/17: filled out some kind of privacy release from senator.
5/18: senator’s office said they put in a request, never heard back after that
5/30: found locator 69’s phone number and called them. they told me to call back with a tracking number. found the receipt for that transaction, called back with what I thought was the tracking number only to be told it wasn’t. the woman at locator 69 suggested I call the post office where I applied and give them my receipt number so they can find the tracking number
5/31: call the post office where I’m told they can’t give me the tracking number since all the passport apps for that day go out together. explained my whole story and the “postmaster”/supervisor of that post office admits their processing the original renewal application was an error on their part as they are not supposed do renewals during those appointments. post master says she’ll look into it, calls me back saying my name was crossed off the list of appointments for that day and there’s no tracking number next to it. says she’ll ask the clerk if she remembers anything about why I’m crossed off
6/1: called the post office back and the post master took pity on me and gave me the tracking number used for that day, says she assumed it must have gone out with the rest.
6/1: called locator 69 back who said they couldn’t help me until 5 days before my flight
6/2: got to nyc passport agency early in hopes of maybe getting in as a walk in. they had a whole separate line for walk ins, only to be told after 2 hours that no one from that line will be seen and we should have been calling NPIC for appointments, so we could move on to the other line. spent 3 hours calling NPIC only to be repeatedly told there’s no appts available in all of america.
6/2: also called locator 69 and gave them the tracking number the post office gave me and was told that my second application was sent to the locator in philly as per the tracking number I was given, even though the letter I showed the clerk gave an address for it to be shipped too. freaked out.
6/2: called the post office and told them my second app was shipped to the wrong place. hauled ass from lower manhattan to the post office and sent out a third application and paid yet again. had it overnighted to locator 69.
6/4: attempted delivery of my third application fails as locator 69 is closed on sunday
6/5: third application arrives at locator 69. called them with tracking number
6/6: approved
6/7: passport arrives!!
6/9: date of travel

I've emailed ND already but the office is closed. I'm hoping to fix it myself first.
Made a $2500 order with ND, normally I use the free shipping or DHL and pay customs via dhl web express. This time I had no choice but to use free shipping. There was a delay and ND used Fedex.
A week later the product is in the UK but stuck at customs. I need to pay customs + vat + fedex fees. Apparently the £689 I need to pay is only a "estimate" too and there might be even more fees when the delivery shows up!
So now to figure out how to pay. Gives me a phone number for credit cards. Ring that... it's an AI bot that cycles me through endless "refer to fedex.com" (which tells me to ring that number) and refuses to pass me on to an actual human no matter what I say, won't accept any account number (which I don't have anyway) and then hangs up on me. Virtual support the same.
Can pay via bank transfer but they want both an email providing "proof" of bank transfer which I won't have as well as "remittant advice" whatever that means, sent to another email address.
Finally I found a portal to pay with the reference number, date, figure owed and email address... and that's broken completely "we are unable to process due to a technical error".
Does anyone have an actual phone number for an actual person at fedex customs? The one I tried was 03456 07 08 09 which is the useless robot ai.
I made an order with Life Extension too and this is sailing right through with UPS with customs and vat already paid via DDP. I hope ND comes through with DDP as it makes life so much easier. I notice iHERB has DDP but they limit all orders to £158...some of the stuff I buy costs more than that on it's own!

Here's a summary of a lot of information I gathered about K-pop history and how I think changes in political relations between Korea and other countries ended up affecting the current K-pop scene.
Basically, from the beginning, K-pop was thought of as an export product. K-pop's first expansion was into Japan with Boa and TVXQ. Then K-pop infiltrated China and the SEA. But despite coming first in Japan, K-pop's main focus for most of the 2000s and at least half of the 2010s was China. No wonder SM's first foreign idol was a Chinese.
What happened was that over the years the political relations between China and South Korea deteriorated, to the point that in 2016 a process of distancing between the two countries began, which ended up leading to the banning, or at least restrictions of good part of Korean entertainment, mainly K-pop and K-dramas. Until today, for example Korean idols cannot promote in Chinese territory, which also ended the possibility of K-pop concerts in China.
Then we come to 2017 and we have two events that were fundamental to the success of K-pop today. First we had TWICE's debut in Japan, which ended up resulting in the Japanese public's interest in K-pop again. As far as I know, K-pop has been weak in Japan in the years leading up to 2017, but TWICE's wild success has brought interest in K-pop back. No wonder, TWICE members are credited with improving Japanese-Korean relations.
In the same year of 2017, on the other side of the world, we had BTS exploding in the US, and across the West, with DNA, making them the first K-pop group to truly conquer the North American market. The following year, in 2018, BLACKPINK also achieved success in the west with DDDD, which brought even more attention to K-pop from western audiences.
In 2018, the fourth generation of K-pop began and this generation, like any other, was strongly influenced by the previous generation, and this can be clearly seen by the directions that the K-pop market took from 2018 onwards. Korea and China, we saw a decrease in the number of Chinese idols, while with the increase of interest in K-pop in Japan and the West, we saw an increase in Japanese idols and English-speaking idols.
From then on, we had an ever-increasing growth of K-pop on the global stage, especially during the pandemic years, but which remains firm until today. Now in 2023 the market value of the main K-pop companies (HYBE, JYP, SM, YG) combined have increased considerably compared to last year. And, not randomly, the two companies with the best performance today are HYBE and JYP, which are the two companies that invest the most in content for Japan and the US, which are the two largest music markets in the world today.
My point is: just as K-pop's withdrawal from the Chinese market is due to the political withdrawal from China and Korea, I believe that the strength of K-pop currently in the Japanese and American market directly reflects the political rapprochement between Japan. , Korea and USA. Japan and South Korea have a history of political friction that dates back to the beginning of the last century, as a result of the process of colonization of imperial Japan over Korea. But despite the historic conflict, currently the relationship between the countries is more peaceful, largely because of the relationship that both countries have with the US. After World War II, both Japan and China were occupied by the USA, much of the American musical influence on Korean and Japanese music comes from that period as well. And in recent years both Japan and Korea have strengthened their political relations with the US and also with each other. And I believe this is reflected in the rapprochement of Asian popular culture with North American popular culture that has happened in recent years, especially in relation to Korean culture.
Since the beginning of the decade we have had the first South Korean film to win an Oscar, BTS being the first Korean group to be nominated for a grammy, the most watched series on Netflix, Round 6 being a South Korean series. In addition to K-pop as a whole having gained more space in the American market in recent years, with several K-pop groups participating in music festivals in the country, signing contracts with American record companies, etc.
I would like to know your opinion now, do you think that the rapprochement between the USA, Japan and Korea is related to the strengthening of K-pop in the two biggest music markets in the world? Is all information in my text correct? If not, could you tell me where I went wrong?

Here's a summary of a lot of information I gathered about K-pop history and how I think changes in political relations between Korea and other countries ended up affecting the current K-pop scene.
Basically, from the beginning, K-pop was thought of as an export product. K-pop's first expansion was into Japan with Boa and TVXQ. Then K-pop infiltrated China and the SEA. But despite coming first in Japan, K-pop's main focus for most of the 2000s and at least half of the 2010s was China. No wonder SM's first foreign idol was a Chinese.
What happened was that over the years the political relations between China and South Korea deteriorated, to the point that in 2016 a process of distancing between the two countries began, which ended up leading to the banning, or at least restrictions of good part of Korean entertainment, mainly K-pop and K-dramas. Until today, for example Korean idols cannot promote in Chinese territory, which also ended the possibility of K-pop concerts in China.
Then we come to 2017 and we have two events that were fundamental to the success of K-pop today. First we had TWICE's debut in Japan, which ended up resulting in the Japanese public's interest in K-pop again. As far as I know, K-pop has been weak in Japan in the years leading up to 2017, but TWICE's wild success has brought interest in K-pop back. No wonder, TWICE members are credited with improving Japanese-Korean relations.
In the same year of 2017, on the other side of the world, we had BTS exploding in the US, and across the West, with DNA, making them the first K-pop group to truly conquer the North American market. The following year, in 2018, BLACKPINK also achieved success in the west with DDDD, which brought even more attention to K-pop from western audiences.
In 2018, the fourth generation of K-pop began and this generation, like any other, was strongly influenced by the previous generation, and this can be clearly seen by the directions that the K-pop market took from 2018 onwards. Korea and China, we saw a decrease in the number of Chinese idols, while with the increase of interest in K-pop in Japan and the West, we saw an increase in Japanese idols and English-speaking idols.
From then on, we had an ever-increasing growth of K-pop on the global stage, especially during the pandemic years, but which remains firm until today. Now in 2023 the market value of the main K-pop companies (HYBE, JYP, SM, YG) combined have increased considerably compared to last year. And, not randomly, the two companies with the best performance today are HYBE and JYP, which are the two companies that invest the most in content for Japan and the US, which are the two largest music markets in the world today.
My point is: just as K-pop's withdrawal from the Chinese market is due to the political withdrawal from China and Korea, I believe that the strength of K-pop currently in the Japanese and American market directly reflects the political rapprochement between Japan. , Korea and USA. Japan and South Korea have a history of political friction that dates back to the beginning of the last century, as a result of the process of colonization of imperial Japan over Korea. But despite the historic conflict, currently the relationship between the countries is more peaceful, largely because of the relationship that both countries have with the US. After World War II, both Japan and China were occupied by the USA, much of the American musical influence on Korean and Japanese music comes from that period as well. And in recent years both Japan and Korea have strengthened their political relations with the US and also with each other. And I believe this is reflected in the rapprochement of Asian popular culture with North American popular culture that has happened in recent years, especially in relation to Korean culture.
Since the beginning of the decade we have had the first South Korean film to win an Oscar, BTS being the first Korean group to be nominated for a grammy, the most watched series on Netflix, Round 6 being a South Korean series. In addition to K-pop as a whole having gained more space in the American market in recent years, with several K-pop groups participating in music festivals in the country, signing contracts with American record companies, etc.
I would like to know your opinion now, do you think that the rapprochement between the USA, Japan and Korea is related to the strengthening of K-pop in the two biggest music markets in the world? Is all information in my text correct? If not, could you tell me where I went wrong?

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I’ve been trying to pay my phone bill for 3 hours now. The app, website, and both customer service phone numbers are all “disconnected” or “something went wrong” is there any way that I can pay my bill so I can switch carriers faster? I’ve been with this phone service for almost 10 years and for the past few all they’re doing is making me irritated and wasting my money. Also, the nearest store is almost 3 hours away, I’d really prefer not to drive for this.

First time posting, not sure what to write so I'll write whatever comes to mind. This could be me screaming into the void.
I don't think I have any serious mental illnesses, or at least not very severe. I had been diagnosed with depression and anxiety, and had taken medication for it. I think the depression is long term. I don't know when it started (maybe at age 12-15, I am now in my early 20s), but I felt numb for a long time with the main emotion being anger (many of my relative used to think that I had anger issues, or that I'm crazy). I do feel happy sometimes, but when ever I do, I would question if I'm actually happy or not. Not sure if this is depression though. Also, when I was "formally" diagnosed, I was at the hospital for prolonged headaches (I think I had experienced headaches almost daily for the past 5 years, maybe longer. There would be times I don't feel pain, but it always comes back). The doctor said nothing was wrong with my brain, I even had an MRI done, and everything was within the normal range. They ask about my medical history and one thing after another, I was transferred to a psychiatrist. I was preparing for uni and was under a lot of stress, I also had to take a week off from school because I was too tired-- so, without going in to deep, the psychiatrist perscribed my woth antidepressants.
The medicine did make me feel happier, I think. I experienced less anger, I felt calm most of the time, like the numbness was now constent. But I don't really like it since I would feel cold constantly, my body would shake and it's difficult to sleep. At that time, I'm not sure if the antidepressents got rid of the headaches since I was also on anti-seizure medication for my headaches (I liked that medicine, I like not feeling headaches everyday, all day).
Now, I'm not on any medication since I don't feel as bad as before. However, I do still have suicidal thoughts (if it could be counted as such. I just want to die early, but I also don't want to leave my parents behind. Also, funnily enough, I often spoke of death as a child. I would tell my grandma to have me buried with her when she dies) and often get curious about harming myself (but not because I want to die, I'm just curious). I often doubt my own mental wellbeing, I often question if I'm faking it, or being overlly dramatic. I don't feel human most of the time.
I don't really want to talk to a psychologist since I'm unsure if I need help, but I also want to know what is wrong with me since it might make me feel better if I can but a name on what I'm experiencing. All these emotions only got worse as I get older, I think. I feel like my memory, attention span, concentration and motovation is getting worse.
[Edit: I also want to add that I've been experiencing nightmares daily, and it has gotten to the point that I'm afraid to go to sleep. Does this have to do with anything?]
If there's anyone who experienced the same (or similar) thing, or know anything about these emotions, I would appreciate any advice. Sorry of the incoherent ramble. I'm also typing on my phone so please excuse any typos or mistakes. Thank you for your time.

I hope it’s ok to ask this question. Currently I’m using Goodreads to log my books and it does provide suggestions. But I don’t like the site’s suggestions. The main problem is that out of 20 suggestions, at least 5 will be from the same author that I’m not interested in. I would like to find a site where I can track the books I read, give ratings and get suggestions for other books which I will actually like. Features specifically I would like are a way to ignore specific authors that I don’t like without having to flag each book individually. Also a way to filter suggestions by criteria such as what the rating is (4 stars or higher type thing) or the number of ratings (so it doesn’t show me books with 100 or less ratings) or by year that the book was published. Does something like this exist?
Even a site that lets me search by genre and filter out books based on certain criteria and books I’ve already read would be fine. Oh also it needs to be an app I can use on my phone. Thanks!

I’m in year 10 and I had to leave my first school since I was bullied after getting into a fight that started out of nowhere. I was punched 8-12 times in the head. Afterwards I stabbed my hand with scissors and had to go to hospital which a lot of people made fun of me on and blamed me.
Before this all happened, I was usually playful and did stupid funny stuff in class. I wasn’t too distracting and people thought I was sweet and chill. After the fight, I started to become completely quiet and barely talked to anyone, even my friends.
3 days after the fight, I returned to school. When I came back, this one girl started to be unbelievably nice and we started to become friends. Of course I still got some support from other people but she was the only one who checked up on me daily.
The few days while I was back, a lot of other people made fun of me for going to the hospital a lot of people were mad at me for calling the police and didn’t really get any support besides this one girl and two of my other good friends, even some of the friend group weren’t on my side or cared, even though I did nothing to start the fight.
I self harmed about 3-4 times a month since June 2022 but ever since the incident (beginning of March) it has been about 3-4 times a week. Barely anyone noticed before the incident but then I started to do it more frequently and didn’t try to hide it as much.
The worst time was about April when I brought a knife in and stabbed myself in the hand to the point I could barely move it. This was when people started to sympathise but it was also when people were at their worst. Some people made fun of me for stabbing my hand and refused to be near me, even my other ‘friends’ still.
The school had to check my bag everyday now. Soon, I brought in a knife another time but I was told if I did it again, I would get expelled. I was given 2 days inclusion. I sneaked in scissors another time and the school was mad at me but didn’t expel me. I was again given 2 days inclusion. I sliced my hand with a sharpener blade and got another day inclusion lost my support from the headteacher. They didn’t expel me. But they said for definite if I did it again, I’m expelled.
At this point everyone felt bad for me, besides these 2 people (one of them being who punched me). They were still mad and hated me for stabbing myself. They were a major reason why I moved schools. It was the worst decision I’ve ever made.
I still had the 3 really good friends (one boy, 2 girls) who have been on my side all the time and cared for me a lot. Although I still had thoughts about them and not wanting to move because of them, I still did. I just didn’t think they were enough. The dumbest reason why I left and my main regret was because I a crush on one of the girls but it was clear they liked someone else so I just couldn’t handle it anymore. They were still a really, really good friend and the only one who comforted me a lot ever since the fight. This was one of the dumbest reasons that influenced me to move. I can not emphasise enough how much I regret this decision.
I had a sudden breakdown in front of my dad and brought up everything that has ever happened. This was when I asked him to move schools. It was two weeks later when I moved. And within those two weeks I’ve told my friends. The main 3 convinced me to stay but I didn’t listen to their advice. They brought up stuff like ‘you need to make new friends, you’ve been with us for 3 years, you won’t find anyone with connection you have with us’. I should’ve listened to them. I would have listened to them but the fact that the headteacher said I could get expelled if I did again went to my head. I thought for definite I would do it again. I felt regret even before I moved, I would’ve asked if my dad if I can just stay at my old school and stupidly I thought it would be too awkward.
The last week at my old school was my hardest. I genuinely felt happy and I felt like all my prior problems that happened had finally stopped. I started to become more playful. But I felt dread knowing I was going to move, the bad feeling when I asked my dad to move had completely gone. I wanted to stay but all the paperwork had been done and it was too late.
I kept the fact that I was going to move from everyone else until the last day. When they all found out, they all looked sad. Even the people who made it clear they didn’t like me said sincerely they would miss me. I spent most of my last day misbehaving and having fun with everyone else, which I haven’t done for a while. But, the friend group I didn’t like as much didn’t even bother to say goodbye or hang out with me on my last day, this really made my decision on moving definite, I somehow felt happy I was moving and eager to start the new school.
The next day, I started the new school. I expected everyone to be nicer and more friendly but my first lesson everyone didn’t want to be next to me. The reasons they said was because ‘He’s Chinese’ and ‘He so ugly’.
2 days later I was invited to join a friend group. I felt happy that they invited me but they ended up being the most bullied people in the year. I wouldn’t have minded it but how weird they acted compared to how chill I wanted them to be disappointed me. They do weird stuff (not like morally bad) that I just feel uncomfortable to be around. They were nothing like my old friends and I don’t feel comfortable acting the way they act. So currently I’m just sitting there on my phone for the entire of break and lunch and occasionally having small conversations with two out of 7 of them. They’re not all bad people but just don’t want to hang out with them. However, one of the guys punched a Year 8 girl in the face and threw hot chocolate at her for only making fun of him and his friend’s glasses. I do not want to be near him but he’s the only guy who would talk to me.
I’ve had to urges to self harm again but if I did, self harming was one of the main reasons why I moved so I couldn’t do it again or else I moved for no reason. I’m still hated and unpopular but my new school just makes me feel worse.
I still talk to the main 3 over the phone but it just sucks not being able to see them as much, especially how they live in another town.
What’s worse is how I had to pick up an entirely new subject (geography) that I have to catch up on by myself and have to learn two more English literature texts (Romeo and Juliet & A Christmas Carol) before the mocks which is in 2 more weeks. AND I still need to be up to date with all my other subjects since all my classes are much ahead of me. I have been unbelievably stressed trying to catch up with all the work I’ve fallen behind in.

So if you frequent this sub recently you may have seen my first update, I'll post the body of that below then my final update.
Regardless, the moral of the story is don't lose hope. I was one of you calling the NPIC number every moment of every day, the locator directly, and my congressman (and senator). I followed all the 8:00am and 1 second instructions. I was <48hours before my DOT without an appointment and my application hadn't even been OPENED, and as of 5 minutes ago I have my passport in my hand. If you are only a day or so from your DOT without anything , it CAN still happen. Seriously.
Original post from 6/6
Buckle up...
Applied expedited, check cashed and put in processing 5/2/2023. Locator 69.
DOT: 6/9/2023
2 weeks out from DOT I began to reach out to my Congressman. They sent the request like they do but was crickets otherwise.
Once I hit 7 business days before DOT I started hammering the 877 number. Repeatedly and nonstop trying to get appointments. Did all the 8am EST exactly. I actually got an appointment at my closest passport center but I only had an hour to collect all documents and get there. Had to cancel. Kept calling, nothing. No appointments.
Reached out to my congressman again as i hadn't heard from him in a week. Apparently there was a congressional event. During this time I reached out to my senator because I was concerned I had been lost in the shuffle (understandable). The moment I submitted the form to the senator the Congressman called and said he was sending in another request.
I repeatedly call locator 69 on their expedited line just to see of any possible status updates. When I got through the person on the line was very very unpleasant. Seemed very annoyed I was calling and would say things like "when it said 7-9 weeks it meant 7-9 weeks" and would act like I was lying when I said I had heard people have received updates about where my passport was in in the review process (had someone even opened the application yet vs it being on the printer). I was extremely calm and polite, but was pretty shocked at how angry this person was considering all the great things I've heard about locator 69.
Anyway! So, keep hitting the 877 and when I get through the person tells me "well I see you already have a scheduled appointment for 6/9". Which is nice, but it's also my DOT so not very helpful. When I ask about the time, confirmation emails, or any information at all. They have no idea. They assume it must be my congressman who set it up.
I reach back out to the congressman, they tell me they haven't heard a word about anything. They had nothing to do with it.
Reach BACK out to the 877 number and anytime they'd look at my file they'd all go "huh? That's weird" or something to that effect, and eventually they transfer me to the life or death line, which is a whole different thing and different "officer". I explained the situation and had no idea why I was transferred to him. He goes through this phantom appointment and is completely confused by it. He has no idea how it was scheduled, no confirmation numbers, no time. Just the location.
My senator responds and says my passport is being urgently pushed to the review process. I'm <72 hours from travel at this time, mind you.
I call the 69 locator back, which they have a whole separate line for "travel within 72 hours" in the options menu and guess what? I get the same rude worker I did the day before from the general expedited line.
She was telling me "I told you there's nothing we can do" and I explained I thought this was a different line with different options since I'm now within 72 hours of travel and the menu clearly states to press this button if I'm <72 hours away. She says that I'm making it up and that she's never heard of this. Essentially calling me a liar, which that one bothered me but I understand high stress jobs can make people act like that. They aren't mad at you, they're just mad at the situation, ya know?
ANYWAY...
So tl;dr
I have been in expedited processing since 5/2 with DOT
Congressman and Senator contacted (usually a no no I've heard) but I haven't had any issues. Congressman heard nothing. Senator got my passport being "urgently reviewed" today apparently.
During this time a phantom appointment was made on my DOT which everyone at the NPIC can see, but cannot confirm its real and no one knows who made it. Not my senator or congressman.
Locator 69 has a great reputatiom but I had a bad experience with their customer service line both times. NPIC workers are absolutely amazing on all of my calls.
UPDATE: The afternoon of 6/6
WOW. I just received a phone call from my congressman about 15 minutes ago and he told me he managed to secure an in person appointment at my closest agency on 6/8 the day before my DOT
I am in absolute shock. My best advice is to be persistent, but be kind, even when it isnt being reciprocated. I reached out to my congressman via email, but would call back if I didn't get an answer in a day or 2 just to politely ask if there were any updates. I would be kind and make it light-hearted, but as I've seen so many times posted here "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" and I can attest to that. Shout out to Caiden at Congressman Tim Walbergs office. Legend.
Another protip, have whoever you can call the NPIC. Not just you. I had my wife calling constantly as well. When they were about 5min left in the queue, they would simply add me to the call via 3-way and mute themselves. Managed to have a couple appointments offered, but all were unrealistic (ex: Seattle in 5 hours) or it got snatched up before we finished our confirmations. So the appointments are there, and they were offered at all times of the day. Not just the mornings.
FINAL UPDATE 6/8: SWEET SUCCESS
So after that last update, I was feeling great. Then, yesterday (6/7) my initial passport application went from in-process to APPROVED.
Now my biggest fear was what if this passport gets mailed, I show up to my appointment and they say "there's nothing we can do, you have one in the mail" and the mailed one doesn't show up until after my DOT.
So I call NPIC again to ask about this, and this amazing girl provided me my tracking number before it was even available on the website. The package is dropped off at about 5pm yesterday in NH, and by 10:30am it is in my hands.
So in about 19 hours my passport went from "in process" to "approved" to actually in my hands. Unbelievable.
I fully believe things change when you get <72 hours from travel. Special appointments open up and your elected officials have more pull.
Both my Congressman and Senator worked on it, and they were aware of this. I was just open and honest about the situation.
What an experience. I feel like I've had to deal with just about every road block you can on this adventure over the last few weeks. In <24 hours I'll be in Jamaica sippin on a Red Stripe. This sub was invaluable and gave me hope where I would have given up if I didn't have others guidance.
Good luck you guys. It's a wild ride.
And yes, I did cancel my appointment today so someone else could get it. If you got an 1130am appointment in Detroit today, you're welcome. Lmao.

My query designed to find the thief is:

SELECT name FROM people WHERE name IN ( SELECT name FROM people WHERE license_plate IN ( SELECT license_plate FROM bakery_security_logs WHERE year = 2021 AND month = 7 AND day = 28 AND hour = 10 AND minute > 15 AND minute < 25 ) ) AND name IN ( SELECT name FROM people WHERE id IN ( SELECT person_id FROM bank_accounts WHERE account_number IN ( SELECT account_number FROM atm_transactions WHERE day = 28 AND month = 7 AND atm_location = 'Leggett Street' AND transaction_type = 'withdraw' ) ) ) AND name IN ( SELECT name FROM people WHERE phone_number IN ( SELECT caller FROM phone_calls WHERE receiver IN ( SELECT phone_number FROM people WHERE passport_number IN ( SELECT passport_number FROM passengers WHERE flight_id IN ( SELECT id FROM flights WHERE month = 7 AND day = 29 AND origin_airport_id IN ( SELECT id FROM airports WHERE full_name = 'Fiftyville Regional Airport' ) ORDER BY (hour * 60 + minute ) LIMIT 1 ) ) ) AND day = 28 AND month = 7 AND duration < 60 ) ) 

But this returns no matches, as far as i can tell each individual check works correctly but there are no crossovers between them?

I currently have an asterisk pbx set up successfully configured for voip calling. Now I want to connect it to the PSTN. The more I look at different SIP providers, the more questions come up. I think I need a nice list of what is needed to purchase to do this.
What I need:
- a local phone number to call out and receive calls
- would like to be able to send/receive SMS - not a dealbreaker
Would one of you experienced people help confirm or correct me?
I think I need to plan for purchase/price out:
- SIP Trunk
- 1 or more channels (for each concurrent call)
- DID inbound service (to have a phone number for others to call in to)
- Termination (to be able to call out)
- Probably a setup fee(s)
Am I missing something?