Help! Quick reply needed

The_Minister

Am trying to hand in a project that was due last Fri at 4:30. Arrived at Economics depart at 4:15 today and everyone is gone. There is a sign that says that they are open till 5. Am I going to lose another 10% because these gits decided to take an early day?

Might be worthwhile e-mailing the lecturer? Sooner rather then later I'd say.

Blush_01

Run to the post office and registered post it. It'll be date marked today, it'll arrive on monday, and they can't penalise you for losing another week. Post Office is on ground level in the Library, before you go downstairs.

The_Minister

Thanks Blush.
I register posted it (it cost me 4:50:mad: , so I hope it works)

Red Alert

Call in to the office on Monday morning and tell them it's coming registered, to be sure.

The_Minister

I will. Thanks for the advice.
I can't believe that they left at least 45 mins early.

Stargal

The only thing I can think of is that maybe it was the departmental Christmas party and they all left early for it? Doesn't really matter what the reason was anyway, that's pretty bad form.

Tan Princess

You've obviously never been to the dept before if you're surprised. They are always unhelpful like that. I'm not at all surprised the secretaries left early.

Chakar

Well looks like Blush saved the day!

Raphael

That's ingenious...or however it is that's spelled...

Pythia

Certain department Christmas parties were on yesterday, yes.

dirtydress

Same with the Philosophy Department apparantely, i have a friend who had an essay due on Friday and the office was locked up early. Not much use to you now but he went down to the student advisers and spoke to a guy there who told him to slip it under the door with a note attached saying that he would vouch for the essay being there on time. Pretty poor of the departments to close up early if essays are still due that day, especially final years.

Sangre

The Dept could take the view, something posted on Friday, won't arrive on Friday so it will always be late. So they might still deduct the marks. Email them anway.

hullaballoo

The package should have a time-stamp as well as a date stamp, so it can be shown that the work was completed and ready to be handed in before the deadline.

Sangre

True, I was thinking more the location factor. Will it have the UCD post office i.d. on it?

gubbie

hullaballoo wrote:

The package should have a time-stamp as well as a date stamp, so it can be shown that the work was completed and ready to be handed in before the deadline.

I think it was already a week late... or am I reading wrongly?

The_Minister

It was a week late, I didn't want to lose another 10%.

I've never been a believer in the philosophy that, it's late anyway, why not go the whole hog
EDIT: Chakar, I would hav hd to be giving it in next Friday for that to be a problem.

Chakar

That was close because I think after two weeks they don't accept assignments.

Blush_01

Sangre wrote:

The Dept could take the view, something posted on Friday, won't arrive on Friday so it will always be late. So they might still deduct the marks. Email them anway.

If essays are due outside of term, or are being handed in outside of term postage as long as it is date stamped is acceptable. They could take the above view, but then they could also have stayed in the office until the official closing time, or they could have done plenty of other things. It's mainly in place for people who're not from Dublin who may not be in Dublin to hand in their essay on the day.

cast_iron

If it's due on or before 16.30 on a Friday, then I would have assumed that's when it should be received in the Dept.

I fail to see how showing you posted on Friday means a thing. It will probably arrive on Monday - it was due Friday = late.

In any case, I doubt the letter would have been time/date stamped before 16.30 on Friday.

I would had said explaining to the lecturer involved that the Dept closed earlier than advertised, so you were unfairly denied a chance to meet the deadline. If this didn't suffice, then take it higher.

Young Siward

Mate you'll be fine. I've had the same happen to me in the economics department. They always seem to shut up shop early on Friday.

Fair play for going to all that bother, all I did was shove it under the door with a brief note saying it was on time etc. If there's any probs, drop into Rodney Thom, and he'll just wave you away telling you they really couldn't give a **** (or more eloquent words to that effect).

Blush_01

cast_iron wrote:

If it's due on or before 16.30 on a Friday, then I would have assumed that's when it should be received in the Dept.

I fail to see how showing you posted on Friday means a thing. It will probably arrive on Monday - it was due Friday = late.

In any case, I doubt the letter would have been time/date stamped before 16.30 on Friday.

I would had said explaining to the lecturer involved that the Dept closed earlier than advertised, so you were unfairly denied a chance to meet the deadline. If this didn't suffice, then take it higher.

Are you blind?

cast_iron

Blush_01 wrote:

Are you blind?

Yes, so perhaps you could explain yourself in an audio recording (along with the text).

The_Minister

Just to finish this off, and let everyone know what happened (for posterity). Just in case someone asks this question next year, and our local fountain of knowledge, Blush_01, has moved on to greener pastures.
They accepted my project with absolutely no problem. The lecturer never e-mailed me back, but I asked her during the exam, and she said it was grand.
So, thank you to Blush, and to everyone else who constructively replied, you helped me through what would otherwise been an awful headache. I never would have thought of register mailing it.