[Desdemona]

Quick story on the ridiculousness of the post office in my life - a colleague of mine mailed a check from a location just west of Forest Park here in StL to a location just east of Forest Park. Forest Park is two miles long and it takes 30-45 minutes to walk the length of it. That piece of mail took nine days to get to its destination. Nine days. I was sitting down to stop payment on the check when the phone rang that it had arrived.

Lesson learned: use a courier. $12 to have an item delivered is cheaper than the $30 to the bank to stop payment on a check.

[discostu]

Meanwhile I’ve dropped stuff in the drop boxes in the morning and had it arrive at the destination the same day.

Sometimes stuff gets lost. The USPS delivers at least one item to pretty much every single home in the country every day. You’re talking about close to a billion individual items a week, and yeah they lost 1 for a couple of days, but they managed to find it.

[kcvl]

If you mail something in our town to someone else in our town via USPS it goes to a town forty miles away before it comes back to our town for delivery even though our post office is the main post office for the county. Don't ask me how that works!