Maybe we'll have visas after all!

It's been a tense couple of weeks. Like last time, we've had to wait for our visas/w/passports to be returned at the last minute. It must be a habit of the Cameroonian embassy in Washington DC. Like two years ago, my colleagues and I are breaking our necks at the last minute to get our visas.  Like two years ago, we learn that no one ever answers the phone there. So I emailed them. (My colleague did that last week to no avail.) They provided an extension number so I thought I was in luck. Problem is, nobody answers that line either, and the message box is full!  So I took a chance and entered a different extension number than the one I was given in an email and it worked! The fellow said the visas have been ready all along but that we should have included a self-addressed envelope.  Both my colleagues and I did!  I tried to stay nice. Had to give a credit card number and the gentleman is supposedly FedExing them to us. (That on top of the first postage I provided.) Grrr.  Supposedly they were going out today. He said he'd confirm with an email. I haven't received an email.  If they don't come Friday, we can't get on the plane on Monday.