It just seems like the US Postal Service always seems to find a way to disappoint. Their delivery times are finally first class, but step foot in a post office (at least the sad excuse for one here in my small town) and just throw all rules of doing business out the window.
Just today I had to venture inside this guaranteed-to-disappoint facility. I do this as rarely as possible. The delivery side of the house, as I mentioned, is first-rate: things get here & there fast, my mailman picks up outgoing mail from my front door and shoves today's mail inside (can't beat that for service), stamps are finally available all over the place, so I rarely have cause to use the actual post office...mercifully.
However, I had a small package, so off I trundled. Surprisingly, there was no one in line, one confused person with an unwrapped package being helped and two agents. Great! Well, heh, heh, not so great - the other agent was lazily reaching into a large black plastic garbage bag and weighing small packages. Did not acknowledge that a customer was waiting (our philosophy - you're here, you're stuck, you can wait) and went on with her weighing.
Sooo, wait I did as the line built up behind me and the confused young woman with the package in a shopping bag was sold a box, etc., etc. until THAT agent was finally free. Brilliant business model!
And then you get this foot-long receipt for your tiny package and there's no trash bucket in sight. They just never miss a chance to annoy.
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