I didn’t realize until the other day when I actually HAD to go to the post office how horribly depressing of an event it had become. Growing up and through most of my life the post office had always been a hub of activity for the town. You would run into a neighbor or someone you knew and the peop...

Even while pocketing billions in bailouts, the captains of industry who wrecked the world economy sneer at government. Just imagine, they say, if their businesses were run like the post office. “You mean the place that takes a note in my hand in L.A. on Monday and gives it to my sister in New ...

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I went to the post office and bank today, FINALLY. :D I also got my new ID sticker and bought discount Christmas stuff and a Valentine's card at CVS. HEY JUST FYI- Always double check the mailing addresses you give people!! I had TWO incorrect zipcodes today.I'm not sure if you've ever had to have a...

The last few weeks have been a mostly full of trips to the Royal Mail sorting office. Not for fun, you understand - I do almost all my Christmas shopping online, as all sane people should - but because I always miss the deliveries. Last night, I took my latest red “We Missed You” slip al...

Late last week I went to the post office to check the mail. I had a notice that there was a box for me, so I went up to the counter. Lyuda was helping a guy wrap a box he was mailing. I watched in interest because I have wrapped thousands of boxes for shipping and mailing. Thousands. Many thousands ...

Setbacks, never a fun thing for me. Most of the time, I don’t even notice setbacks, I just push through. I only notice them when I’m at the end of my rope, resources depleted and it will really only take just the one thing to set me off. To make a long story short: last night was bad, th...

Mangled mail! What the hell happened here? Ripped in half TWICE, chunks missing, missing the right perforated edge and the top/bottom corners… into a total of four pieces, not including the missing parts. Let’s take it out of the plastic enclosure and look at the back of it. Back of the ...

I stop by my local post office several times a week to retrieve mail from Post Office Box 7. (Someone asked recently how I managed to get POB 7. I asked for it and it was available.) The staff of the Ruston Post Office have always been helpful and friendly. A couple of weeks ago my box held a bright...

Reader Joe wrote to us with a heads-up about not short-changing the U.S. Post Office. His postman left him a serious-ass invoice charging Joe with 1¢ postage due. According to Joe's rough numbers, the PO spent at least $.25 to pay the postman for the estimated minute it took to write the invoice. J...