Welcome to Japan!

As a resident, you will receive many official-looking envelopes and postcards, which will fall into two categories:

1. Urgent β€” requires immediate action
2. Not urgent β€” requires no action

They are almost indistinguishable.

@FlockOfCats One will having you running like a madman to the post office/bank/city hall, the other will having you running your mouth off cussing everything you see. Dat's the Japan life.
@FlockOfCats
重要 on everything…

@matthew

Haha yeah.

If everything is 重要 then nothing is 重要!

@FlockOfCats And sometimes
3. Required urgent action yesterday through technology that you abandoned a decade ago
@FlockOfCats welcome to the USA where all the scam letters look official and getting anything of substance from the government is unheard of.
@FlockOfCats Same with work emails.

@FlockOfCats When I couldn't tell if an email was important/urgent or could be deleted safely without trying to decipher it, I used to forward them to my wife.

Nowadays, I just wait for the reminder they usually send a few days later when it's important.