Post Office

Sure its not as pretty as the Oak Park post office. But they get the job done.

They kept saying this post office was going to be closed soon. Hey it’s small but gets the job done for those of us who lived in the area and didn’t want to tread to oak park. There is metered parking out front and on the side of the building. There is parking in the back but it’s like one or two spots and I’m not really sure if I’m allowed to park there !
Otherwise I like this location and enjoyed sending my mail thru here.

Can’t get any help in tracking a package that is hung up at this facility for days. All I can get is an automated message and no live person. Bad customer service!

When a package is shipped within the state of Illinois, it always get held up at the Forest Park, IL sort facility. For an example, I recently had a packages shipped from URBANA, IL 61 801 to Aurora, IL and it has been sitting at the Forest Park sort station for 2 ½ days when Forest Park is only 30 miles from Aurora, IL. A different package shipped from Nevada a day latter arrived before one shipped within the state of Illinois. On a prior occasion, I was told that my package fell off a conveyor and was hidden from view for 3 days.

This is my favorite Post Office! It has easy street parking in front and on the side. The small lobby is kept in good order. My favorite part is that the employees are efficient, happy, and helpful.
Do you know those commercials for UPS where someone wants to ship a difficult item and UPS helps them find the appropriate box, protective filling, and then they send it for a reasonable price? Well, that’s the sort of service experience I get at this post office. I bring them something and they help me figure out the best way to package it. They also happily tell me the cheapest shipping option (which is always my preference). Furthermore, they are never busy so this extra attention isn’t holding up the line.
There are a bajillion post offices between me and this one but I go out of my way for it.

Ok —
So I don’t have normal wedding invitations. They’re not just easy stuff and seal things — they have objects in them, and each envelope weighs and costs something different depending on the size of the object.
I knew I couldn’t go to my local post office (terrible service) or basically any Chicago post office (terrible service) so I went to Forest Park.
This is a small post office — the counter only has two people working, but I brought just 10 envelopes to mail. Not only was the woman working nice and funny and friendly, she didn’t even seem to mind to be individually weighting and stamping my envelopes.
I just hope she’s this cool when I bring the other 75.

My complaints seems minor compared to the people that are depending on the post office for their business but to add to the group so that they know they are not alone & that Forest Park, IL is a growing problem. I live 30 miles from Forest Park & I could depend on receiving my package the next day after it arrived there. I don’t mail too often but in the last three weeks I have had 4 packages delayed & reprocessed over & over again at Forest Park, IL. My last package arrived with the item inside the package broken after it had been reprocessed 8 times at Forest Park for 10 days before I received it. Today I checked on the tracking of another package coming from NY. It arrived at Forest Park on May 5 & departed May 6. Wow, that got my hopes up that I would see it the next day. Well it arrived at Austin, TX, May 7 & departed Austin, TX, May 8 back to Forest Park. When you call Forest Park Processing Center at 708−583−4221, you must leave a message because of the high volume of incoming calls & they don’t return your call. Who else higher-​up or in charge of the Forest Park Processing Center can we call???