Going postal on the post office.

nctom

nctom

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I take my box into the Post Office on S. Blvd in Charlotte. I set the box on the counter.
“That box is too big”.
Not according to your web site.
“Let me measure it”. “Yep, it’s too wide”.
Huh?
“The width can’t exceed 14 inches”.
So I turned the box over on its side and said measure the width now.
Hatefull look... “Oh, ok, now it is 10 inches wide, that’s ok right there”.
:shaking:
I told her it was prepaid, scheduled for pick up and they had missed us 3 times.
“Uh huh… Anything else”?
:mad:
I said, Yeah… Aren’t you glad that no matter how sorry you perform your job at the post office, you can’t be fired?
Hateful look. “Anything else”?
Yeah… Its fragile, be real carefull with it!
(It was a trailer hitch):tongue:
 

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Dumbassity seems to be contageous these days - sounds like ya didnt catch the bug though... customer service is non-existant too so i wouldnt doubt she would act that way.
 
y2kcrawler said:
Dumbassity seems to be contageous these days - sounds like ya didnt catch the bug though... customer service is non-existant too so i wouldnt doubt she would act that way.
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I believe the word you're after is:


"dumbassery"


and, well, it abounds.
 
Well I'm also a sports nut and I collect autographed items from time to time...atleast 4 or 5 times, they have folded my photos and crammed them into my PO Box...on 3 separate occasions and with 2 different managers I've discussed how they are damaging my items...even though most of them clearly say "DO NOT BEND" on the package. They even put a sign on my box that says "DO NOT BEND"...yet atleast once a month, I'll receive something bent in half and crammed into the box. The ladies at the front of mine are nice...but whoever is in the back is too dumb to breathe.
 
I was short a stamp, and went to the counter to mail two credit card payments a few months ago.

"Lady" at the counter said the address wasn't "proper". Whatdayamean...it's the preprinted address thru the window in the envelope, and hasn't changed for years and years....no it was the return address. (she said zip+4 wasn't unique to an address...huh?). Anyway, wrote in address, telling here it was stoopid.

Guess what? Neither of the 2 credit card payments ever showed up.

Talked to the postmaster. Guess what? He said I must have just forgotten to put them in the mail. With a straight face, he said "The post office doesn't lose mail."

Grrrrrr.
 
I went from receiving mail intended for just about everyone ELSE in the friggin county to getting next to nothing for weeks on end. As it turns out, my mail carrier was "screening" my mail and only delivering things to our address that were addressed to my wife since only her name appeared on the title to the house (I have no IDEA how they figured this). We figured this out because 6 months lafter my daughter was born, we still hadn't received her Social Security Card in the mail even though they said it would be a few weeks to a couple months.

Since the Postal Worker didn't "recognize" her name (duh... she was just born!), she sent it Return to Sender - Unknown. Needless to say, it was investigated right quickly and we have a new Postal Worker.
 
kaiser715 said:
Talked to the postmaster. Guess what? He said I must have just forgotten to put them in the mail. With a straight face, he said "The post office doesn't lose mail."
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He should visit some of the Bulk Mail and Packaging and Distribution centers I have been in. There are piles of things that are "lost". Watching the places work it is actually quite amazing how it all gets where it needs to go.
 
I remember taking a field trip to the main post office in Charlotte when I was a kid in the early 70's. It was like watching a part of what made America great. Automation, machines, hard working people, Neither rain nor sleet nor snow will keep us from our appointed rounds, the pony express, etc... Hell, to a kid, the mail man used to be up there with a fireman and an astronaut. Now we get Shanaynay with a union card and a lifetime membership to the I dont give a :poop:club. I am seriously considering moving to Greenland.:lol:
 
My local office always takes me 10 minutes to get a package mailed ( you don't wanna hear what it takes for international.
Yesterday I just stopped by a different location on my way somewhere ..... 5 minutes in and out .... and that included stranding in line.
Ask a question about how to do an APO overseas address.
"Just do the best you can !"

??????????

I don't get it .... I know all the crap is standardized.


Matt
 
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