A brief interjection....
May. 5th, 2009 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
air_n_darknessThe USPS has made a big push in recent years to encourage people to print their postage online. The discount between printing your postage yourself and taking it into the counter is actually significant, especially if you ship items regularly. Admittedly, you can only print Priority or Express postage from their website, but that's really not an issue for me, as I can print First Class or Media through Paypal on the odd occasion I need to do so.
Now, most PO's even have the Automated Postal Centers, where you can print your own postage, including stamps, instead of having to stand in line with the masses. I'm a bit surprised the one here in Millington doesn't have that, but eh, many small town PO's haven't gone there yet.
Previously, I have always just had my carrier pickup my packages. However, Trudy does not have a porch to speak of, and I'm just not comfortable leaving a few hundred dollars worth of items on the stoop. This means the postal carrier has to knock, come in, process the packages, yadda yadda yadda. He's a nice little old man...but he's a little old man. He'd never even had to do a pickup or scan a Priority Package until I moved in there. What with Yin deciding that he simply must dart out the front door to roll in the clover every chance he gets, I try to limit the number of pickups I have.
Which means I drop off my packages at the PO quite a bit. Most are too big to go in the package drop, so I just take them to the counter and leave them at an unoccupied window; this is what the very sweet ladies at this PO told me to do. No waiting in line, no worries. Except that I get the mother of all Dirty Looks from the people standing in line. Which frankly annoys me. It's a minor thing, totally unimportant. But it annoys.
Really, I understand that not everyone has net access, or feels comfortable paying for things online, or what have you. But don't get pissy with me because you can't or won't take advantage of the other options.
And that concludes our interjection. We now return you to your regularly scheduled LJ.
Now, most PO's even have the Automated Postal Centers, where you can print your own postage, including stamps, instead of having to stand in line with the masses. I'm a bit surprised the one here in Millington doesn't have that, but eh, many small town PO's haven't gone there yet.
Previously, I have always just had my carrier pickup my packages. However, Trudy does not have a porch to speak of, and I'm just not comfortable leaving a few hundred dollars worth of items on the stoop. This means the postal carrier has to knock, come in, process the packages, yadda yadda yadda. He's a nice little old man...but he's a little old man. He'd never even had to do a pickup or scan a Priority Package until I moved in there. What with Yin deciding that he simply must dart out the front door to roll in the clover every chance he gets, I try to limit the number of pickups I have.
Which means I drop off my packages at the PO quite a bit. Most are too big to go in the package drop, so I just take them to the counter and leave them at an unoccupied window; this is what the very sweet ladies at this PO told me to do. No waiting in line, no worries. Except that I get the mother of all Dirty Looks from the people standing in line. Which frankly annoys me. It's a minor thing, totally unimportant. But it annoys.
Really, I understand that not everyone has net access, or feels comfortable paying for things online, or what have you. But don't get pissy with me because you can't or won't take advantage of the other options.
And that concludes our interjection. We now return you to your regularly scheduled LJ.
