Idiots at the Post Office

Not the employees, I am talking customers here.

Published on January 17, 2004 By Filazafer In Consumer Issues

Let me just come out and say it: If you decide to join the so-called internet revolution and sell your copy of "Dirty Dancing on DVD through EBAY (so you can upgrade to the special edition, of course) and you walk into the post office with just the DVD and an address on a piece of paper and say, "I want to mail this," Then you, my friend, are an A-Hole. You are the reason that postal workers go postal. You make the world an annoying place to live. Yes, you are THAT person. All the people being so nice to you behind the counter, not to mention all those people in line behind you? Guess what? They hate you.

The friendly folks at the post-office are not there to take your item, find you a box to mail it in, package it up, put on the address, write on you return address, and then mail it. They are just there to put on the postage and mail it. That is why they sell all of those packing supplies. They are for you to take home and do that stuff before you come in. And since you are so internet savvy now, I will let you in on another secret. If you go to the USPS website you can even get FREE PACKING SUPPLIES! That's right, they will deliver them right to your front door. Your lazy ass doesn't even have to leave the house. How about that!?!

So please when you decide to finally let go of that Yanni CD and get 29 cents for it on Half.Com, please, please do the right thing, package it up and put on the address before you go to the post office. I will thank you, the people behind you in line will thank you, and the guy behind the counter who would like nothing more than to . . . well use your imagination, will really, really thank you.

Just one more thing you should remember: Just because the door at the post office is unlocked and there are still people inside doesn't mean you should walk in 5 minutes after it is closed (this goes for banks too). If you are not in line before the clock on their wall says 5 or noon or whenever it closes, then walk away. For God's sake, just turn around and walk away.

Thanks for your time.

SFTS = AFI / SING THE SORROW / #6 GIRL'S NOT GREY

Comments

Locamama

on Jan 17, 2004

This is so funny because its true. I am an annoyance at the post office because I do card and scrapbook swaps and have to have my return postage included but I have to weigh it first. I go first thing when they open and get everything as ready as I can though. I used to work at Lowes and it would kill me the people who would walk in as or after we were closing. The store rules said that we can't ask them to leave but some would literally stay in there after we turned the lights off. If that isn't a hint, I don't know what is.

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