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Touchdown! Greaser!
/rant on
I almost went postal this afternoon. I had 7 or 8 large envelopes to mail at the end of the day. So I went down to the local branch of the post office. They had just closed the doors inside (a few minutes before 5 PM... there were a couple of folks in line, can't keep the counter workers too late). So I used the automated machine. Took me a good *minute* per package to weigh and dispense the postage. While doing so, I heard them collecting the mail from the mail slot. No problem, this post office has a 7 PM drop time.
WRONG.
Apparently they recently changed the pickup time to *5 PM*. And they eliminated ALL the morning pickups (used to have a 7 AM pickup), so the earliest the stuff would go out is *1 PM* tomorrow. I missed the pickup by literally a minute or two while waiting for their stupid machine to go through each of 8 prompt menus per package and dispense postage.
So I ended up driving 10 miles to the main post office, no, make that 20 miles... 10 up, 10 back.
OK, so we keep seeing postal rates rising, yet they cut service for people who might actually need to mail things at the end of the work day.
Ba$^#@*s.
Any wonder why people go postal???
/rant off
(no, these were not things I could email, unfortunately)
I almost went postal this afternoon. I had 7 or 8 large envelopes to mail at the end of the day. So I went down to the local branch of the post office. They had just closed the doors inside (a few minutes before 5 PM... there were a couple of folks in line, can't keep the counter workers too late). So I used the automated machine. Took me a good *minute* per package to weigh and dispense the postage. While doing so, I heard them collecting the mail from the mail slot. No problem, this post office has a 7 PM drop time.
WRONG.
Apparently they recently changed the pickup time to *5 PM*. And they eliminated ALL the morning pickups (used to have a 7 AM pickup), so the earliest the stuff would go out is *1 PM* tomorrow. I missed the pickup by literally a minute or two while waiting for their stupid machine to go through each of 8 prompt menus per package and dispense postage.
So I ended up driving 10 miles to the main post office, no, make that 20 miles... 10 up, 10 back.
OK, so we keep seeing postal rates rising, yet they cut service for people who might actually need to mail things at the end of the work day.
Ba$^#@*s.
Any wonder why people go postal???
/rant off
(no, these were not things I could email, unfortunately)