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The Moth Radio Hour: More Kindness of Strangers

The Moth

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The Devastation of a Teddy Bear in Ecuador

Paddington was in the country. I could finally relax and as soon as we got back from the islands for our last day in Quito I checked to see where is Paddington. As it turns out you can't accept a package on behalf of someone else regardless if you are a hotel clerk or anything else unless the person is there to take it off your hands. No one really knows about this law because not a whole lot of people are emergency shipping internationally teddy bears but like you know that's me. At least in Ecuador I had my friends with me supporting my drive to get my teddy bear to come home but here I'm not crying on any of these guys shoulders

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