The French Postal Service is ruining my life... again!

Priority mail in France, how it works (or doesn't work):

1. Send a parcel (30lbs) from Strasbourg on May 11th in Priority Mail to Ann Arbor, MI (because you need your books asap for your internship for example)
2. Pay A LOT of money.
3. Wait, wait, wait....
4. Check online with your tracking number and realize that the Postal Service website cannot tell you where you parcel is.
5. After 2 weeks get VERY frustrated.
6. Call the Post Office (in France of course) and ask (nicely) about your parcel (thanx God you still have the tracking number - you know the one that doesn't work online...)
7. Listen to the nice guy telling you that your parcel left France on May 24!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8. Sit down, drink a bit and ask about the second parcel you sent on Priority Mail (for the same reason) on May 18.
8. Listen to the "not so nice guy anymore" telling you that he cannot find your second parcel because the lady at the Post Office probably forgot to scan it when you deposited it.
9. Collapse.

Now I'm asking myself:
1. When are we going to have tracking numbers for parcels that WE customers can use on their bloody website?
2. Thanx for doubling the shipping rates... What about the service and the efficiency????
2. 13 days to do Strasbourg - Paris in Priority Mail... How long in Eco????
3. Am I going to receive the parcels I sent in Eco to Atlanta before the end of my PhD (in 2011)???