My advice to you is to move to town, get a real job, and accept curbside delivery at a clusterbox.
BTW, you want that nasty little post office that doesn't serve you well to get closed, go ahead and complain to your Congress-critter. They'll all get a real laugh in his office as they pin your letter up on the "jokes board".
And no, the employees don't get a commission on anything ~ but they are required to ask certain "types" key questions ~ the experience being that certain people act like they want registry and/or certified on each and every letter they send.
You are simply matching a profile.
I agree with you. I am a heavy user of USPS (ebay seller) and their service is 10 times better than UPS or FedEx.
I can't believe I'm reading this on FR. Let the Federales eliminate the ban on FedEx, UPS, et al. on handling first class mail and the the government would lose 95% of its first class mail business. I'm not interested in subsidizing 3rd class mail either, but my guess is that all you postal workers would tell us about the great public service you are doing delivering junk mail to me at my expense. And I don't care if the folks in Eek no longer get daily mail delivery at my expense.
My advice to you is to move to town, get a real job, and accept curbside delivery at a clusterbox.
Is the only real job a postal job? What makes you think I do not work? In fact the reason that I cannot collect my certified mail between 8:30 and 5:00 at my home post office is that I am working and it costs me a post worker's daily salary to show up during those hours.
BTW, you want that nasty little post office that doesn't serve you well to get closed, go ahead and complain to your Congress-critter. They'll all get a real laugh in his office as they pin your letter up on the "jokes board".
I have written to my Congressman about the post office situation here. You're right. I'm sure he laughs at it, just like my senators laugh at my plea to support my neighbor Sam Alito.
And no, the employees don't get a commission on anything ~ but they are required to ask certain "types" key questions ~ the experience being that certain people act like they want registry and/or certified on each and every letter they send.
Look, I've been going into post offices for a long time. The attempted hard sell is new in the last few years. This inane asking if I need stamps has to stop. They don't just ask me. They ask all the folks ahead of me. I think if one of them ever said, "Oh, yeah. Give me a sheet of 37c stamps," I would faint dead away. (Sorry 39c for that great service. Why do I think UPS might charge me 22c for most of my first class mail?)
You are simply matching a profile.
My profile is FReeper. You got a problem with that, Bud?
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BTW, for reasons that I cannot quite understand I must maintain a mailbox on the street where I live. We have a 50 foot setback. The folks in the neighboring town, which has more expensive properties with larger setbacks, get their mail delivered to their houses as I did growing up. But then they delvered twice a day for 3c. (Okay, 30c adjusted for infaltion, but your buddies are the ones printing the money.)
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