The D*** Post Office Is At It Again!!

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Randy_

Randy_

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Several weeks ago the stamp dispensing machine was removed from the lobby of my local post office. I figured it was out for a repair of maybe they were going to install a new one. Lots of luck. I checked, today, and was told the machine had been removed permanently and this would happen at lots (maybe all)of POs. the explanation included comments about staff reductions and the unreliability of the machines. Didn't fully make sense to me; but the bottom line.......machines are gone!!!:mad:

So now when I need 25¢ worth of stamps, I have to stand in line for 20 minutes, if I am lucky, or if it happens to be after hours or the weekend I have to wait hours or days before I can get stamps or I have to drive miles to a grocery store that sells stamps.

If the PO keeps "improving" their service, they are going to improve themselves right out of business!!
 
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I sold an item on EBAY last week. The buyer who lived in a rural area requested that I send the item FED EX or UPS. The reason.....he said that the mail carrier spoke very little English and read probably less. They are constantly tracking their mail down which is delivered incorrectly to their other rural neighbors. How does that make sense?
 
Our local Safeway grocery store sells Books of stamps, better than nothing, maybe a local busineess there does. They make no mark-up just do it for customer service reasons.
 
Postal Service is $2.8 billion in the hole:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94E7IMG0&show_article=1

Their looking to cut 40,000 jobs:
http://patrioticactivist.com/2008/1...to-cut-40000-jobs-in-first-layoff-in-history/

Maybe the government could bail out one of it's own agencies before it bails evryone else out. It's going to get worse before it gets better.

I'm lucky, my credit union sells stamps. I do my very best not go in the post office. You know that regulations are posted above the entrance to every post office that state, "you must wait twenty minutes regardless of the number of people in line". :)
 
I thought this was going to be a rant about express mail charges going up in January, I don't think I'll even bring that up right now.
 
les-smith said:
"you must wait twenty minutes regardless of the number of people in line".
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I have to wait twenty minutes for the postmaster to get off the phone with all of her friends. If I need to weigh a package, I also have to wait until she clears her lunch off the scales.

In a stack of 500 packages at a distribution center, I'll bet my life savings that I can spot the one that originated from the Letart PO. It would be the one with 23 different stamps as the lady refuses to let any of those evil computers in her PO.

So, when possible, I do all PO business online :wink:
 
Damn, I'm lucky. Our little PO is very efficient. I know most of the employees by name, and make sure each of them gets a slimline each year around Christmas. I get great service. Not trying to start a row, just want to give credit to the Montgomery, PA Post Office.
 
We have been getting mail delivery between 1 and 2 PM like clock work. The past week or so it has been delivered after 6 PM to as late as 7:30 pm in the dark. I understand our station is one or two carriers short so they are doubling up the routes and paying time and a half. Delivery in the dark has got to take longer and the errors must be greater. Maybe they will be doubling up someone elses route next week.
 
I'm not American and I am grateful for the USPS flat rate package availability and affordability but my amp building business sure took a big hit when they discontinued "surface shipping" as an option. Tolex and transformers are damn heavy.:mad:
 
Can't you buy stamps on line now? I think you print your own or something... I've not tried it.
 
I came to the realization a long time ago that there are some things in life that requires patience. Long lines will never go away. You stand in line at the post office, you sit at the DMV for an hour, you stand in line at the grocery store, you sit bumper to bumper in traffic just to name a few of lifes aggravations.

What good does it do you ? It raises your blood pressure to the boiling point, you get in a bad mood and take it out on your family or even blow up at a complete stranger just because you're a little inconvenienced. Where does it stop ?

Just learn to live with it, long lines and aggravating people will always be around.

You'll probably start feeling a little better and be in a better mood. Quit complaining about every little thing around yourself and you'll probably find yourself smiling a little more.

There's more to life than just waiting for a reason to complain.
 
rej19 said:
I sold an item on EBAY last week. The buyer who lived in a rural area requested that I send the item FED EX or UPS. The reason.....he said that the mail carrier spoke very little English and read probably less. They are constantly tracking their mail down which is delivered incorrectly to their other rural neighbors. How does that make sense?
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There used to be a joke going around: " Last week I cudn't even spell post man, now I are one"
 
LanceD said:
Quit complaining about every little thing around yourself and you'll probably find yourself smiling a little more.

There's more to life than just waiting for a reason to complain.
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Lance,
You hit the nail on the head...

I have a standard response when people as how I am, with a smile, I generally say,

"I can't complain, no one is listening anyway."
 
Grizz said:
Can't you buy stamps on line now? I think you print your own or something... I've not tried it.
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I mostly buy my stamps on line or at the PO in large enough quantities that I don't mind standing in line. Every so often, however, I mess up and run out. (Ever have to run to the grocery store for a quart of milk??) And it always happens, after the PO has closed or on a weekend!!
 
Randy_ said:
I mostly buy my stamps on line or at the PO in large enough quantities that I don't mind standing in line. Every so often, however, I mess up and run out. (Ever have to run to the grocery store for a quart of milk??) And it always happens, after the PO has closed or on a weekend!!
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Why would you try to buy milk at the Post Office????????:tongue:
 
Hey Lance. Thanks so much for your advice.:rolleyes: Don't know how I ever managed to survive so long without it?? BTW, my blood pressure is just fine.....more than likely, a lot lower than yours.

As for your advice about complaining, it sucks. Did you ever consider that without our ancestors "complaining," we would still be subjects of the King of England......or more properly the Queen.

Do you suppose Barack Obama would be President-elect if MLK had not complained. And do you suppose that we would have pen kits like the Emperor if folks had not complained to CSUSA about the lack of such a kit??

If people don't speak up and complain nothing ever changes or at least it changes at a lot slower rate. If you choose to be quiet as a mouse and just "grin and bear it", that is your choice. Others of us choose to speak up when we feel the need.

Rather than complaining about my complaining, I wonder why you didn't just take your own advice and "live with it?":rolleyes:
 
I have a Dymo Twin Turbo label maker. This, and the free Dymo Stamps app, has saved me hours of PO time (I do mean Post Office time). If my wife needs a stamp... out comes a 42¢ stamp. Sending a flat rate envelope, out comes a $4.80. It's not a bad deal. Yes, I do have to pay for the labels (from eBay), but that really is a small amount when I consider the gas and my time to stand in line. The account is funded with my Paypal debit card and I purchase $10.00 at a time.
 
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