12 years ago
Monday, April 16, 2007
The Post Office
Has anyone else but me noticed we have new beaucracy in town? It started small. The occasional returned piece of mail. You could have lived in town for the last 102 years and everybody including the post man knew where you lived. You could just address a piece of mail "Chief Highknocker, Dartford Cemetary Tree" and you got your mail. Now they demand a number or it is returned even if I haven't gone anywhere. If you close your box at the post office and get it on a route, they return it. They know where you are but rules are rules! Now all mail gets returned if it doesn't say EXACTLY what it is supposed to. Now the waste basket is gone. Another small town civility ruined by someone who is "just following the rules". Absolutely ridiculous.
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Wow! one complaint and the wastebasket is back. Way to go Chief. Not to worry about the cigarette ashes, diaper loads and other messy things. You the man!
For the record, Kathy, Judy and the boss are very courteous and helpful! They don't make the rules, they only follow them. My mailman is the best.
They are too smart to deliver to a cemetary.
You are not as important as you think you are!
I had problems too. Make sure you get a PO box number from anyone you send mail to. Kathy and Judy are understanding but I have seen the Postmaster loose her cool on several occassions. Not pretty.
# 2 you need to be more specific. What was your issue? Why did the Postmaster lose her cool. Did you lose yours?
No I didn't loose my cool but I was uncomfortable. I needed special stamps and Kathy was helping me. She asked the Postmaster a question to finish my order and she snapped at Kathy. It was very strange. Maybe she was having a bad day but it made me not want to return. Kathy apologized to me but it wasn't her fault.
Anonymous #3, you love to stir the pot. You must be the chief hiding behind an anonymous tag. Get a life. Keep carrying that notebook around and you won't have to ask. Check out my website, I have a great article for you under life strategies (number 4 should help you out). http://drphil.com/articles/article/4
Chief Highknocker, maybe you should change your name to Chief PAM for Piss and Moan
Small town post offices still have their benefits, and we're lucky to have Kathy & Judy. I've not met "the boss". Go try a post office in a big city. After waiting in line for a minimum of 15 minutes, you'll be lucky to get a smile or a thank you as they take your money.
Does anybody see a problem with putting the correct adddress and information on an envelope? I never knew it was optional?
Wow Cheif
You really hit a nerve. Sorry to hear about the wastebasket being used for waste. Jt I believe the whole purpose of the post was to say we have lost the small town charm. Even the postmaster knew everyone in town and made sure you got your mail. Yes, rules are rules God knows all of you people who posted lives you life to the letter of the rules. What ever happened to seeing the goodside, the charm our community has to offer? I think their are too many FIBS moving to town and taking over.
thanks Chilly- Its nice to know someone gets it around here. Although I don't really have problem with FIBS. Some of my best friends can't help being one.
If you want small town charm go to the Post Office. Or is it their fault that every thing in town is for sale?
I get really ticked off when they send back mail because it doesn't have the P.O. number on it...How are we suppose to know what there P.O. is?? Maybe the post office should make a P.O. directory, kind of like the phone book...(if they don't already have one)
Mel
I now use my returned mail as my Visa.....I just show them all the stamped locations it has been to before it's finally returned to me. I am now up to 38,000,000 frequently mailer miles.
how about the fact that there are no wastebaskets and people are to take their mail home and dispose of it there....looks like a lot of people littering in a public place...shame on who slovenly leaves their trash lay in the lobby.
Gee, why is there no wastebasket in the lobby? There should at least be a RECYCLING BIN there for folks to throw away their junk mail. Or are the employees too busy to care about the environment? Speaking of junk mail, it's the biggest waste of our natural resources that I can think of, and should be banned. Some might call is free speech and enterprise, but I call it dead trees and wasted ink.
Shortly after I read this blog, I checked my mail. I received a package with the same first and last name as mine but completely wrong address. I stopped at my parents' house later that day and they received a piece of my mail. It was addressed with my first name and my maiden name but my address. So it seems as if they only look at the name not the address. Do you have to do a name change at the post office??
Hey - I was told you can write a note to the postmaster to withhold all that junk mail and they will not deliver the wonderful Express and Billboard to your box - then you do not need a wastebasket!
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