My favorite thing is to walk past the line to the completely open Automated Postal Center and send my package in like 3 minutes. Every once in a while someone will bail on the line after i'm done and try it, mostly they continue to wait.
I worked in a station that had one of those. It was a near constant struggle to keep it working. I'm glad my office doesn't have one, because is he the one having to constantly fix it. It's bad enough trying to keep the two POS systems running like they should.
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Well the next time I head to the Vineyard Haven post office, on a Friday, in August, I'll be sure to get there 1.30ish. Thanks for the heads up! :-)
I always wonder what the hell people ahead of me are doing because I typically put an item on the counter, tell them I want to mail it, they charge me and that's it I'm outta there.
@dad As somebody who, until recent government made it unfeasible, would be periodically mailing packages internationally, I can say that the staff at some post offices are very good at their jobs, the staff at other post offices are not, and when you live where you can choose which post office to go to you find out that everybody who's serious about mailing things all congregate at the post office where the staff are good at their jobs so you have a long queue that moves fairly quickly, and you avoid the post office where the queues are not long but move very slowly.
We have a few chatty postal workers. They are good for morale generally so everyone is patient while Bruce chats with people because you know you're going to get to chat with Bruce next.
I made the mistake of trying to go to the post office the first day it was open after Christmas. Huge queue of Amazon returns
Well the next time I head to the Vineyard Haven post office, on a Friday, in August, I'll be sure to get there 1.30ish. Thanks for the heads up! :-)
I never go to the post office on a Friday.