US Post Office

Okay place to go if your in the area. Not enough staff, but carriers are wonderful. They are helpful even when they have so little time. Always kind when I’m asking questions I probably should be able to guess. Couldn’t ask for better.

This year I made a resolution to send birthday cards to all my friends. I was doing really well up until July, and now have a handful of cards from the «Belated Birthdays» section I need to backdate. But anyway. By July, I’d sent out about 30 cards of different shapes and sizes to locations near and far. Only one of them took like a month to deliver, and that was an oversize dancing mustache card that I totally dropped in the mail without enough postage. My bad. But they still delivered it!
This post office has been a life saver! For local deliveries, even with just a regular forever stamp, I can bask in the luxury of the last minute, knowing that the cards I send have a pretty good chance of arriving the very next day. I love the bank of drive-​thru mail boxes, and many a lunch hour has included an extra 10-​second postal drop. They also have a self-​service station inside just in case you need to send something larger, like a dancing mustache card.
I’m now gearing up for my own birthday party, and wanted to send something special as the invites. Today, when I went inside to ask about them, the lady at the counter was happy to help, saying, «I’ve seen everything! Bouncy balls to coconuts!» So my message in a bottle was no big deal. She even told me «Congratulations!» when I said I was sending invites. I assume she thought I was getting married. You know what? I’ll take it.

The usps seems to think that as the only gig in town, treating customers poorly must be their most important priority. The hours are completely out of sync with their customers needs. I had a package go missing and they just signed off on it being «delivered» and would not tell me where it was delivered to. I confirmed the address it was sent to was correct with the shipper, then through my own investigation learned that the package had been forwarded to another state. The post office refused to find out why or arrange to have the package sent back to me. They told me to go online and request for the package to be rerouted. When I tried to do this, they wanted me to pay an additional 12 shipping charge. On a 7 dollar item that originally cost less than 2 bucks to mail. This is a total scam!