OCTOBER 19 /2004 --- Frimpong is ready to leave Oregon and, after packing all his stuff, goes to the Post office.

OCTOBER 19 /2004 --- Frimpong has his first clash with postal bureaucracy, after having travelled without any problem until today.
It seems that between USA and Italy there are bizarre postal limitations and it’s totally forbidden to send from USA to Italy all toys that are not made of simple wood and all shoes.
Frimpong tried to explain to postal clerks that he was not a toy and even less a pair of shoes, and, even though the clerks admitted he was not a shoe, they remained persuaded he was a toy and, being not a wooden one, he would have been confiscated by Italian customs officers.