My post office experience
gecko109
Posts: 8,231 ✭
Ok, so it was 2pm here in Chicago, and I had lots of items to ship out from this weekend's ebay sales. I take all 14 packages to the PO and the place is empty as can be. Two ladies normally work the front, but one was just going on a late lunch. The one who is taking care of me is the decidedly slower of the 2, but I dont mind. After she handles package number 3, a couple more customers come in and get in line. I hear an old man behind me belly aching explicatives under his breath. After about package number 6 is processed, there are another 4 or so more customers in line. The old man gets even more aggrivated and I hear another voice telling him to not get upset. The old man rebuttles, "this f**king guy has 30 f**king packages!". Now im starting to get annoyed. At about package number 12, the line is literally to the door, with perhaps 15 or so customers waiting. Now the old man is calling me a "f**king jagoff" literally! Nobody else says anything, which sort of amplifies this guy's commentary. At package 14, the post woman asks if theres anything else.....I feel like asking for an explaination of the differences between registered, priority, and first class mail, just to jag the old man, but of course I dont. I tell the post woman, "this will be it".....I immediately hear a "THANK GOD, ITS ABOUT F**KING TIME!" behind me from the old man. I instictively blurt out in laughter, you know the kind that sometimes carries with it an explosion of snot from the nose? I could not contain myself at this point. I turn around and look right at the old man and say "at first you were very annoying, now you are just funny". His jaw dropped and his eyes widened as if he was completely unpreppared for me to respond to his rude behavior. With 15 customers and a post woman in the joint, you could have heard a pin drop. I took my receipt and strolled out of the place as if nothing had happened, the customers parting quickly in an effort for me to exit unmolested.
0
Comments
Why do you not print your own postage directly from Paypal? Will save you time, money & from having to deal with morons.
I agree with Cars, the only reason I end up in the PO line is if I need more than $500.00 in insurance on a package. Paypal shipping is quick and easy, and even paying for the labels to not have to deal with the post office seems a fair trade off to me.
roadrunner
Then I get out of line (to allow the other customers to be served) and I go to the side counter, fill in my labels, which takes the most amount of time (about 10 minutes).
Once I finish my labels, I'm allowed to 'jump' back to the front of the line and the clerk stamps the labels and takes my packages (30 seconds).
This way nobody yells at each other and everybody can get to Tim Horton's for their coffees in a great mood
"“Those who sacrifice liberty for security/safety deserve neither.“(Benjamin Franklin)
"I only golf on days that end in 'Y'" (DE59)
Many members on this forum that now it cannot fit in my signature. Please ask for entire list.
<< <i>When I'm waiting in line at my local a "convenience" story with my "milk and eggs" and some yahoo in front of me orders up 20 diff. lottery tickets, that gets me annoyed as well. >>
You'd really love the minimarts around here. People will cash in their powerball tickets, buy scratchoffs with the winnings and proceed to stand there at the counter scratching them all off in case they have a winner.
You'd think the place was a casino or something.
Last week in this area all of the postal drop boxes have been removed. The largest employer in this country realized it's into red ink.
The USPS is just another division doing its part to help get out of the red; lay off the person that picked up the mail in those boxes. Lay off one or two people behind each counter and it shouldn't take long to save a few trillion. The board of misdirectors can say they're addressing the slight overdraft. In the news we may soon hear of a sign placed in the home office "The pork stops here" (we want to spend it ourselves.)
That poor old grouch may have had one of those jobs picking up the mail from drop boxes.
I knew it would happen.
Coin's for sale/trade.
Tom Pilitowski
US Rare Coin Investments
800-624-1870
i agree cranky people are so rude they just become funny and even more pathetic at times
you handled it well!
bob
<< <i>To even hint that gecko was out of line is simply absurd. >>
Oh hel!.
He's outta line all the time.
Ray
Should you ever decide to ship out 1000 items in one day, they can probably hold a Gecko holiday at the USPS and close the doors. The USPS should give the locals several days notice so they can work their schedules around yours. And while you didn't hear any expletives out of the other more patient and considerate people in line, I can only imagine the plethora of 4 letter words they must have been thinking. Do you plan your trip to arrive just before the rush at lunchtime?
roadrunner
(x2,Meltdown),cajun,Swampboy,SeaEagleCoins,InYHWHWeTrust, bstat1020,Spooly,timrutnat,oilstates200, vpr, guitarwes,
mariner67, and Mikes coins
<< <i>I have nothing to apologize for as I have every right to ship 1,000 packages at once if I so choose. Until the USPS has a "10 items or less" sign above the counter, I am doing nothing wrong. But to mumble expicatives TOWARDS me while he waits is very rude at best.
Should you ever decide to ship out 1000 items in one day, they can probably hold a Gecko holiday at the USPS and close the doors. The USPS should give the locals several days notice so they can work their schedules around yours. And while you didn't hear any expletives out of the other more patient and considerate people in line, I can only imagine the plethora of 4 letter words they must have been thinking. Do you plan your trip to arrive just before the rush at lunchtime?
roadrunner >>
Do you eat lunch at 2pm regularly? Neither do 95% of other people. That is SPECIFICALLY why I choose to do my business there at 2pm. Please read my posts before being so critical of my actions.
All the POs I use here in Canada do the same as Double Eagle said, and it does make for a quicker stint at the PO
<< <i>Chicago is what, 35% white? How come you don't see any white people working in the post offices in Chicago? >>
Affirmative action a.k.a. reverse discrimination. In this case, race is totally irrelevant.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Sadly I've been that guy scoffing at you from behind, just quietly under my breath and certainly not with the same expletives that your friend was. I do cringe though when I see people lugging in the large duffle bags worth of small packets at the busiest times of the day. For people shipping that much stuff they should definitely be printing online, which is what we do now.
We don't sell coins on a regular basis, but when we do I normally have to stand in line to get the insurance, since you can only purchase up to $500 online. I try to pick odd times of the day to go, but it doesn't always work out that way.
He's outta line all the time.
no, no, no - I meant other than that!
I may not appreciate it, but if somebody's in front of me in a line, I really don't have much to say about it. My choices are to go, or to stay. Muttering expletives doesn't help me get there faster, but it might get me something else.
I knew it would happen.
The one I purchased of the 14 sent arrived here in Ft. Lauderdale today.
<< <i>I'm glad the elderly gentleman didn't take it out on the packages.
The one I purchased of the 14 sent arrived here in Ft. Lauderdale today. >>
Will it "9" is the question though?!?!?!
It looks like a strong contender for a 9 to me.
I just sniped another raw one on ebay today. I will send them in separately and hope for a 9
from one of them....Hopefully both...
<< <i>To even hint that gecko was out of line is simply absurd. >>
The ONLY place that I utter explicatives is Walmart when they have 50 registers and only 3 are manned with lines backed into the ladies "unmentionables"! ! !
HH
1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!