PenMan1
Member
This is not a "rant" because I don't think they really belong here. Today, I needed to send two pieces of express mail. I had run out of envelops. So, trying to be efficient, I went to the P.O. to collect more envelops and mail my two express pieces. I FORGOT to take my tape to affix the labels I printed at home to the envelopes that I didn't have.
I stood in the "considerable" line to get two pieces of tape ( which I would be happy to pay for) to attach my label.
As the clerk attached my labels, she challenged me about getting "commercial" postage rates for "private" mail.
She tried to "make a scene" and hold up the line while she publicly berated me for being a private person trying to use "a cheaper" commercial rate.
Rather than to hold up a growing line, I said that she was right and I would retrieve my envelops. NO! I had presented the packages and could not "take them back"
I began to get angry ( I don't really gey angry, I think the last time was in 1970, when I got my draft notice). I asked to see a supervisor. The supervisor "had left for the day and she was in charge"
I really believe her intent was to close the P.O. to all the other patrons patiently waiting behind me. Finally, knocked her hand off of my envelops and told her to "call whomever she needed to call, that I would be buying tape at the store next door"
I did go next door, buy the tape and put the envelopes in the express mail box outside. I did go back inside, because I had forgotten to pick up my extra express envelopes. This lone clerk was STILL harassing the guy who was directly behind me when I left some 15 minutes earlier.
Is this what we have become?
I stood in the "considerable" line to get two pieces of tape ( which I would be happy to pay for) to attach my label.
As the clerk attached my labels, she challenged me about getting "commercial" postage rates for "private" mail.
She tried to "make a scene" and hold up the line while she publicly berated me for being a private person trying to use "a cheaper" commercial rate.
Rather than to hold up a growing line, I said that she was right and I would retrieve my envelops. NO! I had presented the packages and could not "take them back"
I began to get angry ( I don't really gey angry, I think the last time was in 1970, when I got my draft notice). I asked to see a supervisor. The supervisor "had left for the day and she was in charge"
I really believe her intent was to close the P.O. to all the other patrons patiently waiting behind me. Finally, knocked her hand off of my envelops and told her to "call whomever she needed to call, that I would be buying tape at the store next door"
I did go next door, buy the tape and put the envelopes in the express mail box outside. I did go back inside, because I had forgotten to pick up my extra express envelopes. This lone clerk was STILL harassing the guy who was directly behind me when I left some 15 minutes earlier.
Is this what we have become?