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Onkel Neal
12-18-12, 04:55 PM
If you work for the postal system, when you come in to my shop with your car for repair, you can pay me extra and I will make sure the work is done.
Pay another charge and if you call the shop, we'll tell you the status of your car repair.
If you return and we cannot find your car, don't blame us, even though we are the only ones who have had possession of it.
If you do get your car back, anything on it that is broken, that's your fault, you should have put more padding on the parts you didn't want broken.
We do offer assurance that your car won't be lost, we call it insurance, and yeah, you have to pay extra for it.
You will need to stand in a long line while our one, bored, disinterested clerk takes his/her time getting things done. Don't worry, from time to time you will see other clerks walking around in the back. And if you don't have all the proper forms completed--back in line with you. Don't like it? Blame your government, they are the one running this operation.
PS: I didn't copy this from anywhere :know:
Herr-Berbunch
12-18-12, 04:58 PM
:Kaleun_Applaud: Brilliant!
Armistead
12-18-12, 05:26 PM
Happens to me and I don't work for the postal system..
Jimbuna
12-18-12, 05:27 PM
You've been on the UK Post Office site ya bugga :D
AVGWarhawk
12-18-12, 06:11 PM
And here I thought this only happened in my home town. Except our clerks love cracking their gum as they chew like bovine in the field. Next.....
Jimbuna
12-18-12, 07:18 PM
And here I thought this only happened in my home town. Except our clerks love cracking their gum as they chew like bovine in the field. Next.....
No different in the UK.....unfortunately :doh:
nikimcbee
12-18-12, 07:27 PM
Neal, you're thinking of the DMV.:dead:
http://i1358.photobucket.com/albums/q764/gasturbin/advice-for-the-us-postal-service-22575-1315429306-49_zps6d918ebf.jpg
AVGWarhawk
12-18-12, 07:42 PM
Neal, you're thinking of the DMV.:dead:
The DMV is whole other thread by itself. Now serving #2. Window 19.
AVGWarhawk
12-18-12, 07:45 PM
No different in the UK.....unfortunately :doh:
Jim, the clerks work and act like they are doing you a favor. It's quite something. Its no wonder the postal service is always in the red.
Jimbuna
12-18-12, 07:45 PM
My diecast (currently three in transit) gets through...so I'm currently happy :yeah:
Could be because it shipped in special record, not in any package,:hmm2:
Platapus
12-18-12, 08:08 PM
Must depend on what part of the country you live.
I have to go to the Post Office quite regularly and I have always found the people there helpful and the line moves pretty well.
Many times my carrier gets out of her vehicle in the rain (snow, sleet, gloom of night :D) to put my large bundles on my porch when it would be so much easier for her to simply put one of those "pick up your big mail package at the post office" cards.
You've been on the UK Post Office site ya bugga :D
I don't think so Jim. That discription fits the US Postal Service to a T. Especially in the USA New Castle I live in. I've seen it happen here many many times. And getting a Passport at a post office is even more fun. :nope:
nikimcbee
12-18-12, 11:46 PM
My diecast (currently three in transit) gets through...so I'm currently happy :yeah:
Jim can't say anything atm, his "presents":haha: may wind up at another flat in >304 pieces.
nikimcbee
12-18-12, 11:48 PM
Must depend on what part of the country you live.
I have to go to the Post Office quite regularly and I have always found the people there helpful and the line moves pretty well.
Many times my carrier gets out of her vehicle in the rain (snow, sleet, gloom of night :D) to put my large bundles on my porch when it would be so much easier for her to simply put one of those "pick up your big mail package at the post office" cards.
In Portland, the postman not only does that, but they will take a crap in your yard. (no joke)
Jimbuna
12-19-12, 06:21 AM
Jim can't say anything atm, his "presents":haha: may wind up at another flat in >304 pieces.
LOL :)
Two of the three I'm expecting have just arrived :sunny:
AVGWarhawk
12-19-12, 09:22 AM
LOL :)
Two of the three I'm expecting have just arrived :sunny:
There is hope!
This is how it was done back in the day around our parts of the mud ball we call Earth. Hope the pony can make it!
http://redmountainarts.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/ponyexpress-3.jpg
Jimbuna
12-19-12, 09:27 AM
Wouldn't get past the indians in these parts :03:
AVGWarhawk
12-19-12, 09:40 AM
:haha: Our boys had the same problem with the locals!
Jimbuna
12-19-12, 09:55 AM
:haha: Our boys had the same problem with the locals!
That's what I meant...could of just as easily said Pakistanis etc :)
AVGWarhawk
12-19-12, 09:59 AM
In our neck of the woods it was the American Indian(locals) that would prove to be a issue for the riders from time to time.
Jimbuna
12-19-12, 10:06 AM
Rgr that Chris.
Catfish
12-19-12, 11:45 AM
What .. you .. you mean the US postal service is NOT PRIVATIZED ?!
You are all communists ! :rotfl2:
AVGWarhawk
12-19-12, 11:47 AM
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/Graphics/056/07/056-0726101249-going-postal-Sanzarang.jpg
mookiemookie
12-19-12, 03:54 PM
My fiance's diploma came the other day in a cardboard envelope that said in big bold letters "DO NOT BEND"
Our idiot mail carrier folded it in half and stuffed it in the mailbox. :damn:
Buddahaid
12-19-12, 05:20 PM
I use USPS to ship things regularly and always pay the $.75 for delivery confirmation. Otherwise you are SOL if the item isn't received. No one to complain to, no way to know if it ever got there, or if someone working for the PO just stole it, or what. Other than that I have little to gripe about.
Platapus
12-19-12, 06:55 PM
My fiance's diploma came the other day in a cardboard envelope that said in big bold letters "DO NOT BEND"
Our idiot mail carrier folded it in half and stuffed it in the mailbox. :damn:
About 25 years ago, I ordered a piece of software on 5.25 inch floppy. It came in an envelope marked Do not bend. The postman bent it in half and stuffed it in my apartment mail box.
The floppy disk was bent in to a "V". I took the disk to the post office to register a complaint. I had the "V" disk on the counter. The post office employee actually asked me "well did you try using the disk?" :/\\!!
Alas, at that time my computer only had the old fashioned flat floppy disk drives so I was out of luck.
Jimbuna
12-19-12, 07:17 PM
About 25 years ago, I ordered a piece of software on 5.25 inch floppy. It came in an envelope marked Do not bend. The postman bent it in half and stuffed it in my apartment mail box.
The floppy disk was bent in to a "V". I took the disk to the post office to register a complaint. I had the "V" disk on the counter. The post office employee actually asked me "well did you try using the disk?" :/\\!!
Alas, at that time my computer only had the old fashioned flat floppy disk drives so I was out of luck.
LOL :)
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