A little OT, but man the Post Office really ticks me off!!!!!

jtryka

I was down at the PO at lunch today, mailing a low value (like under $20) Kennedy for an eBay sale. So the buyer wants the insurance so I say I need to insure it for $20, keep in mind this was in a #10 envelope with the coin in one of those cardboard sticky things. Here's how it went:

Me: I need to insure this for $20.
Postal Ogre: What's inside of it?
Me: None of your business.
Postal Ogre: Because if there's money inside we can't insure it.
Me: Don't worry, you can insure it.
Postal Ogre: What's inside?
Me: You don't need to know.
Postal Ogre: Yes I do, we have security measures and we have to know.
Me: No, you don't, it's called the 4th Amendment, and last I checked, even the postal service was subject to the Constitution of the United States.
Postal Ogre: I'm not gonna argue with you sir. What is inside?
Me: (finally I succumb) It's a numismatic item.
Postal Ogre: What's that?
Me: Look it up.
Postal Ogre: That'll be $1.90.

AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! Someone let me know when the second American revolution happens so I can fight to once again live freely in a democratic republic with limited government that does not ignore the constitution!

Placid

Spread the Holiday Joy.

1907Quarter

I love your last two lines!

Russ

You ran in to a major idiot. I've shipped thousands of insured packages through the post office and never once have they asked specifically what was inside. They do sometimes ask if anything is fragile, liquid or perishable.

Russ, NCNE

drsvenghali

I've had the Post Office refuse to insure items for the same reason also. The response is as you stated "We can't insure money". After lengthy convincing, I have the local PO guys under control. A couple of weeks ago I was on the road and went throught he whole thing over again. The other PO refused to insure so I had to wait to get back home to mail it. I wish they would get it through their head that it isn't just money.

airplanenut

What an azz... pardon my french

jtryka

You know, she is one of two postal clerks in history that have asked me specifics (I long for the Tigard OR post office again, they have to be the best in the nation for shipping stuff), and if I hear one more time that it's money, I am going to write a letter to the postmaster general requesting 50 Double eagles, and I would promptly pay $1000 for them!!!!!

Bulldog

My Post Office even allows me credit. I think they are the absolute best. When they don't have change, we make an arrangement. They way my packages and figure the postage several ways.

Sometimes it pays to be a Hick, living in a hick town, with good people all around.

Bulldog

DesertLizard

The interogation you get at the PO is only the beginning.

The gov't has used 9/11 as a proxy to slowly take away a lot of privacy for all Americans. Sadly, many people are clueless and don't care.

First freedom of speech, then privacy. What next?

For those who believe such measures will "protect us", think again. All the bad guys of 9/11 were here on legit visas. If someone is intent on suicide and taking a bunch of innocents with them there is little you can do to stop them. Maybe if the US did not butt into other nation's affairs we would not be targeted?

agfox

I love the "Postal Ogre" description.

I live in a big city and usually the hick in me actually works against me in my dealings with the post office. It's still one of the best deals in the world to send a letter though. It'll all die back down after the holidays. Spread more cheer.

jtryka

Well, I am certainly a die hard when it comes to defending our liberty and constitution, and it may only be a matter of time before the terrorist thread comes not from without, but from within, but groups of patriots trying to restore the freedoms that we have allowed to be taken from us. After all, it was Abraham Lincoln who said, "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."

originalisbest

Oh, brother. Take the blame America stuff to someone who cares.

How about this genius. We don't "butt into" any other countries affairs. We even stop trading with them. For fear of offending, we stop interacting with anyone beyond our borders in even the most insignificant manner.

How long will it then take for you to begin whining about the many injustices going on throughout the world which we "should do something about" if we're sincere about upholding our ideals?



Please, before posting on a topic with any greater potential significance than basic drivel - refrain from checking your common sense first.

jtryka

As far as international affairs go, we're in a catch-22 at least socially. If we try to help/spread democracy/pursue our own interests, then we are the evil imperialist Americans, but if we stayed home, we'd be cold hearless brutes for not helping the poor people in these oppressed countries. I'm for a more isolationist agenda, but realistically, that probably won't happen. One of the most ironic (and moronic) things yet, note that many folks in this country and around the world are working hard to eradicate sexism and racism and homophobia, because they are so intolerant of others, yet we have a whole large group of Moslims that view us as infidels and want nothing more than to kill us, yet the same people fighting intolerance elsewhere have no problem with this. It makes no sense to me, and all I ask is for consistency. But I will never get that from the left-wing nuts that are fighting to defend the actions of wacko Moslims, and blame the poor hard working Americans that were just working at their desks on that terrible day. Well, I am sick of it, I say if these idiot terrorist want their holy war, let's bring it to them. Start at Egypt and don't stop till we reach India. Use the "heavier" stuff to clear out the bulk of them, and then let the radiation take care of the rest. I am really sick of this crap we are taking, and if the rest of the world is going to blame us for everything, give us credit for nothing, and then call us imperialist to boot, we may as well start building an empire.

Russ

<< <i>Oh, brother. Take the blame America stuff to someone who cares. >>



Geez, man, it's just a thread complaining about the post office. Don't go postal on us. Bwuahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!

Russ, NCNE