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My post office experience

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.

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  • Ah the Post office. Right behind the DMV on least fav places to go. That's one reason I print my labels on line. I can print 100 labels in 7 minutes and get discount/free tracking to boot. I also have a good relationship with the local PO, She lets me bring my stuff in the back door and put it into the crate myself. So thankfully I can Not relate image

    Why do you not print your own postage directly from Paypal? Will save you time, money & from having to deal with morons.
    Its all relative
  • Thanks for the laugh Gecko, I can picture the guy in my head now.

    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.
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  • originalisbestoriginalisbest Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭✭
    Fort Dearborn P.O. gecko? Sounds like it.
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,124 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I totally agree...print your labels on line via PayPal...avoid the hassle ...
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  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,303 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey, if I were behind you I'd be either thinking or uttering the same expletive deleteds that the old guy did. 2, 3, even 4 packages is one thing, but a dozen is another story. What would make more sense to me is to do some now and do some later. Or just let the line empty out and re-enter. When I'm waiting in line at my local "inconvenience" store with my "milk and eggs" and some yahoo in front of me orders up 20 diff. lottery tickets, that gets me annoyed as well. Guess I'm not one for waiting in lines for people who have no consideration for those behind them. If I wanted 20 diff lottery tickets I'd stop anytime there were a few people behind and let them go ahead. If you want to spend that much money and have to do it all at once, head up to the casino as it's only 18 miles away.

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  • Appears someone at the post office that day and time was very inconsiderate. You decide which one
  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,325 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here in Canada, if I had 14 parcels to be shipped, my local PO gives me 14 Xpost envelopes, charges me X amount and I'm done through the line in about 3 minutes.

    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 moodimage
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  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    people nowadays have no patience. Think of all the road rage going on.......
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  • While you may have brought to many packages to mail at one time I think it's funny you laughed at that grumpy old sourpuss.image


  • << <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.
  • When ever you go there, it won't matter what you're shipping, be prepared to spend more time at the post office.
    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.
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  • Waiting is just a part of life. Either you deal with it, or leave and come back later. Im not in charge of staffing that post office. They have 3 counter stations and just 1 person was working at that time. 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.
  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,899 ✭✭✭✭✭
    To even hint that gecko was out of line is simply absurd.
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  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    And the big mouth probably stood in line to buy a single stamp ( after asking how much they cost )
  • konsolekonsole Posts: 795 ✭✭✭
    Personally I think you both didnt handle the situation too well. I think he did something he shouldnt have done (verbally overreacting), but you also didn't do something that you should have done, which is maybe process half the packages and then get back in line and wait the 5 minutes to get back to the front and process the remaining packages while the other customers can do their business, especially when the line is building and there is only 1 slow employee there. I know its not your fault that they were understaffed but that doesn't mean you can't find a middle ground so everyones happy. I'm not defending this other guy, because I can't stand those overreacting a**holes myself and he probably only said what he said to get the other people around him fired up and on his side. I think your reaction back to him was justified because people like him need to be set straight some times and the shock factor is what will do it. He did have a good reason to be a bit upset but not react like he did.
  • I'd have flattened his tire when I got to the parking lot so he'd have to wait for AAA image
    Its all relative
  • 57loaded57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭
    find out where he lives and put out a "DNR" for him if he ever calls the paramedics. j/k

    i agree cranky people are so rude they just become funny and even more pathetic at times

    you handled it well!

  • rjsvtrjsvt Posts: 163
    I think after you were done, you should have politely asked him to step aside to talk. Then tell him he just lost his place and should get to the back of the line.

    bob
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  • lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720


    << <i>To even hint that gecko was out of line is simply absurd. >>




    Oh hel!.
    He's outta line all the time.

    Ray
  • percybpercyb Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭✭
    Chicago is what, 35% white? How come you don't see any white people working in the post offices in Chicago?
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  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,303 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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?

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  • Next time you go there bring 30-40 of your friends with you and instruct them to each buy 1 stamp and write a check for it.
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  • << <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.
  • I eat breakfast around 2pm image
    Its all relative
  • ColinCMRColinCMR Posts: 1,482 ✭✭✭
    You didn't do anything wrong, and didn't deserve that treatment. Everyone else in the line had the option to see that something was taking time and could have left and did their activity another time, that's the way lines work. The person paying for services at the time can do whatever they want, including mailing out all their mail at the post office.

    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
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,238 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <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.

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  • While I too agree that printed postage online is the way to go, both for the sake of the shipper and the other customers in line, that story is pretty funny.

    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.
  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,899 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oh hel!.
    He's outta line all the time.


    no, no, no - I meant other than that!image

    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.
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  • sbeverlysbeverly Posts: 962 ✭✭✭
    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.
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  • gecko109gecko109 Posts: 8,231


    << <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. >>




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  • Here is my PO story. I was going away for the weekend and called late thursday to have them hold my mail, "Hello, Ca---- PO", Hi Karen, its Jerry, can you hold my mail tomorrow and saturday? No problem Jerry, have a great weekend, bye" Thank God for small towns!
  • halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭


    << <i>To even hint that gecko was out of line is simply absurd. >>



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