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bcakes

Post Office Rant

A few weeks ago I took my completed invitation to the post office. This had invite with vellum paper, rsvp card with stamped envelope, and cooking twine with a hang tag with our website on it all inside our pretty standard size envelope.

I took this before buying more postage to be weighed and make sure it wasn't a weird size. The postal worked weighed it and told me just 1 forever stamp was needed, score! I buy stamps a bit later, my post office didn't have cute stamps (a necessity, duh) so I waited and picked them up near my work, stamped all the out of state and far away friends and dropped them in a box at the post office. We received a gift from couple in Ohio off of our honeymoon registry, yay! They were in Ohio, so good, they're getting out. Hear from FMIL that her sister received hers and liked it, cool.

I had to order more invites because FILs added 7 people and I only had 4 invites left. I order, they come, I decide to send out all local invites at once. There isn't a drop box at my closest post office (I know, nyc, IDK) So I go inside to ask/ give to employee directly. She looks at them, grabs one from bag and says:

"These need an additional 21 cents"

EXCUSE ME "Hummawhatnow?"

"They can't go through the machine. There's something in here."

YEAH DOY "ok, yes, I brought one here 2 weeks ago to check postage and the man working said they were good with a forever stamp."

"No, they need 21 cents"

WHATTHEHOLYHELL "I've sent some already that I know have been delivered, why would that be?"

"I'm not telling you what to do, I'm just saying they'll need it, but if you've had them get there."

ARE YOU A SPHINX, WHY ARE YOU SPEAKING IN RIDDLES DO I NEED MORE POSTAGE??

"I can buy more, but... oh you're taking them, ok guess I'm hoping for the best. Will they be returned if they can't be delivered, oh you've walked away, I'm an inconveniencetoyourdayokaybyenow."

uppercase is internal thoughts... not sure how much of that last part I said out loud, she was gone anyways.

DANG PO WHY YOU GOTTA BE LIKE THIS. you're a cliche' already

Posted Jun 17, 2016, 1:22 AM UTC

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afloat_on_waves•

That would drive me nuts too. I hate when you ask a question from two different employees and get different answers.

I hope they all get to their desired locations!

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elle-m-n-o-p•

I'm crossing my fingers that the second employee was wrong!

I didn't mail our rent check in time once, so I asked the post man who came to my work where my landlords PO box was. he told me the one across town. so I go across town and the post woman there tells me it's actually the one in my neighborhood. she then tells me that even though I have it stamped properly, it's policy that they'll need to mail it still, instead of putting it straight into her PO box. so it'd have to go to the next town over to be processed then come back to the same place.

I went to my neighborhood office to beg them to put it straight into her PO box and they did it with no begging. I told them what the other woman told me and they looked at me like I was nuts.

so yeh, I love the post office but there's a lot of misinformation (and they are always, always slow). here's hoping!

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bcakesOP9.3.16 Connecticut•

Thanks! Yeah, I'm hoping they all get through since a few already have. I hav one more to mail out of country so I'll be going to the large/ nicer neighborhood post office near my work! I partially feel like she just looked at these 50 envelopes as a bunch of work for her to do... But I don't know why working in a pair office is apparently so miserable for some people!

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mmbuja08.20.16 | Upstate NY | Festival•

I had the exact same thing happen to me in NJ with my STDs! I had to pay the extra postage AND THEY STILL SENT THEM THROUGH THE MACHINE. Literally wtf?

I'd just go back another day and hope for the nice guy OR go to another post office if she hadn't taken them. Those NYC post offices are tough.

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bcakesOP9.3.16 Connecticut•

Yeah, considering I dropped the first half of far away people in a regular drop box inside a post office, and as far as I know a few people have got them, hoping for the best!

I should have dropped these at a corner spot, thought it would be better to take them inside, but once again dealing with a live human was terrible :P

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gold_locket10/28/16 St. Louis•

I will never understand why the post office isn't more regulated. Everything seems so subjective there!

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