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Kind of a funny postal story.
Coinstartled
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Happened a couple of years ago. I was mailing out some coins. A woman had gotten into an accident with another driver, walked in the PO and asked what their address was. The three or four clerks didn't know what it was and even wondered if the building had an address.
A supervisor had no idea and had to ask a second supervisor who came up with the street address.
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Well maybe not that funny.
Believable............I worked there 36 years...............
You were lucky that at least one supervisor knew the address.
Pete
That is indeed amusing, though perhaps not entirely surprising since it's a piece of information the people asked might not have needed to use very much. I'm often stumped by seemingly basic guest questions in the hotel where I work. But I'm the night auditor, so information about the golf shuttles and spa services and other stuff (which isn't open overnight) eludes me sometimes. I suspect it is this way in any job where someone has to absorb and retain large amounts of information.
I have to think about it for a moment if you ask me my phone number.
If they didn't know their own address, how did they know where to show up for work every morning?
Reminds me of the story of the Denny's chain of restaurants, "Open 24 hours".
They decided to close one Christmas not too many years back, for the benefit of their employees. Nobody could find the keys to the door in order to lock up.
I believe it; couldn't tell you the address to the offic where I work
Tell them to look at their 3849
San Diego, CA
Not surprising since we do not mail letters addressed to the Post Office.....and in small towns, everyone knows 'where' the Post Office is... I doubt many could quote the address beyond the street. Cheers, RickO
Well said.............the 3849 is the "Notice" left in your mailbox to pick up a piece of mail at the local P.O. It has the location of the local Post Office printed right on it.
Pete
You are right!!
Getting a telephone # for the PO is another story...
They don't normally give it out, so if you get it keep it. The USPS tries to get you to dial into a main (national) 800#.
Funny thing about phone numbers and smart phones
People ask me for my wife or daughters phone number and I look at my smart phone and the numbers are Shellie and Sierra, and then I answer, I do not know as the numbers are names.
Oh yeah. That is the number where you punch in zero fifty times and still wait a half hour.
"Funny postal" is right up there with "military intelligence" on the oxymoronic meter.
Sometimes people ask how to get to my house as in the street names to turn on. I have no idea of all the street names as to get to my house, all I know is I turn left, right, left, right, left, right, left, left, and left .....
I've been there... people rattle of route # this and route # that and I just draw a bank even though I travel them regularly.
Same thing for highway exits. Some people memorize the exit #s but I never pay attention to those - just the town.
My street delivery person is horrendous - he will not just fold but crease any large envelope, never mind that it is a photo mailer with DO NOT BEND printed on it.
The girl at the PO window is a different story. She wears what some would consider a politically incorrect sweat shirt, and we are nice to her and add candy to her Halloween bowl at the window, etc. She knows to NEVER bend my mail and does not cram stuff into the box. I think there is a note at the back side of the PO Box that says not to bend my letters. I also buy her stamps that no one else wants that clutter up her drawer.
yes that might be a wee bit trouble some lol