Fed-up Madonna can’t convince courier she is actually Madonna

Angry Madonna Fed Ex
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“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life,” Oscar Wilde once wrote.
He wasn’t wrong.
Madonna’s 1989 single, Express Yourself, assumed a whole new layer of meaning yesterday in Madge’s existential struggle to get a parcel delivered.
Yesterday, she reached breaking point, posting a fed-up selfie to her 1.77 million followers in the hope of convincing a courier company that she was, in fact, who she claimed to be.
Twitter users the world over pondered this newly-relatable Madonna.

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The internet rallied to her cause, dutifully retweeting her plight over 12,000 times.
Then, like a hawk plunging from the skies, came Julie, a customer service representative out to save the day.

Julie’s heroism didn’t go unnoticed.
But others turned the tables.
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Whatever happens next, we’ll be wishing on a lucky star that Madge convinces the courier company to release her package, so the Material Girl can get back into the groove.