[PBRCat]

So the postal clerks sat at the counter all day and did virtually no work while on the clock.

[Tell It Right]

Evidently they ought to have to learn to code.

[Responsibility2nd]

I once wanted to get a job at the post office.

But I was not black nor a veteran.

[DallasBiff]

How much is a first class postage stamp these days?

[Jamestown1630]

I’ve never experienced this, but for years now I’ve usually bought stamps by mail. They don’t even charge shipping if you choose the 3 to 5 day option.

[who knows what evil?]

Had a package take 36 hours to wander seventy miles down the road in rural Georgia yesterday...

[PGR88]

Much of bloated American government is just another form of welfare, and progressive-woke political-machine operation

Its getting super-expensive to support this bloated machine, with $2-3 Trillion budget deficits per year

Its also why we must be at war everywhere around the world, to support the dollar and keep this debt (and hence the machine) from crashing

[CIB-173RDABN]

At the counter, I was told that the branch had no postage stamps available for purchase.

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I also find this strange but in this case it is not Biden’s fault or responsibility. The postal service is one of the few government agency created in the Constitutional. If anyone if responsible it would be the post master for that post office.

[4Liberty]

Sounds about right. I sent a Certified letter (with green form and green Return postcard) to California from NH in Feb.

Guess what.... the entire letter, unopened, with the green postcard still attached, just got returned to me here in my mailbox, NH this week...... WTH?!??

[caver]

Our local post office is incompetent. I go further away to another small town if I have to go to the post office.

[gitmo]

Stamps cause global warming. It’s better for the environment to deliver your letters yourself.

[jagusafr]

I heard the same thing from a postal worker to the woman right in front of me about a month ago.

[SaveFerris]

18 eggs 🥚🥚🥚 at WalMart were $1.85 on sale 3-4 months ago

Went back up to $2.24 afterwards

TODAY $4.12.

I walked away.

Thanks, Democrat Joe Biden!!

24 pack soda pop $4.98 under President Donald Trump

TODAY, $8.54 - bought it though

Thanks, Democrat Joe Biden!!

2 litre soda pop $0.88 under President Donald Trump

TODAY $1.68

I walked away from that as well

Thanks, Democrat Joe Biden!!

[jjotto]

Some PO branches do not sell postage at all, usually posted at entrances. Others sell postage only in vending machines.

[escapefromboston]

I worked at the post office for ten years before I retired and this is probably the fault of the manager /post master for not ordering more supplies. When I worked there most of them were incompetent with awful personalities.

[daku]

I tried to mail a box on my last visit.
The only requirements were size, length plus width plus height must be under 108” total.
The clerk would measure length plus width plus length again plus width again plus height (on the floor because she didn’t want to lift the 42lb box to her work area). which was then deemed entirely to large to ship.
No amount of remedial area mathematics would penetrate her ridiculous hairdo and underlying cement skull.
I ended up taking it to UPS and was assisted by a professional.

[Disambiguator]

We buys stamps at the grocery store or Costco.

[IamConservative]

We recently had the occasion involving notaries to send some paperwork back and forth via USPS. Between two cities only 1,000 miles apart, first class USPS took 10 days. Priority Mail took....9 days! Absolutely abysmal service.

Overnight service on UPS was $90 for those wondering.

[mass55th]

"So the postal clerks sat at the counter all day and did virtually no work while on the clock."

Bet they had plenty of greeting cards available for you to purchase for those stamps you couldn't get.

The last time I purchased stamps, I got them from the automated machine in the front lobby. I don't collect stamps, so it doesn't matter which stamps I use for postage. My local post office is the only one available in this area, so there are always long lines, and if I don't have to stand in line, I'm happy.

[discostu]

Selling stamps is a pretty rare thing at the post office. Sending packages is the big one. And giving packages to people with slips. I can’t remember if the one next to me has the machine for buying stamps.

[Roadrunner383]

So it’s your impression that postal clerks afix regular postage stamps to outgoing mail, so no stamps for sale, nothing for the clerks to do?

Up here in God’s MAGA country, NW GA, our local post office is pretty efficient. Mail gets delivered on time, they’re always open during posted hours, multiple clerks available when things get busy.

Sorry to interrupt things, go back to the usual b*tching and moaning.