11-01-2017, 09:25 AM
Standing in line at the P.O. is a time honored tradition.
They never have clerks at all the counter locations, even during the Christmas and April 15 rush.
The only break from that is when few people are trying to use the counter services.
If you want to avoid standing in a long slow moving line, time your visit to when the line is most likely to be shorter.
I have found the best way to avoid the P.O. lines.
I opened an account with the P.O. online.
I do almost all my postal business online, pay postage and print out the label and tape it onto the package myself.
When I go into the lobby, all I do is excuse myself as I push past the people in line to throw it into the basket,
then excuse myself as I push through the people in line as I exit the lobby.
The only business I do through the counter is to buy rolls of stamps.
That can be done elsewhere.
I always time my visit to buy stamps to when the line is low to non existent.
I am no longer frustrated by the lines in the P.O. lobby.
Dealing with the long slow moving lines is a choice you make for yourself.
Welcome to Puna, the land of the Vocal Lunatic Fringe.
They never have clerks at all the counter locations, even during the Christmas and April 15 rush.
The only break from that is when few people are trying to use the counter services.
If you want to avoid standing in a long slow moving line, time your visit to when the line is most likely to be shorter.
I have found the best way to avoid the P.O. lines.
I opened an account with the P.O. online.
I do almost all my postal business online, pay postage and print out the label and tape it onto the package myself.
When I go into the lobby, all I do is excuse myself as I push past the people in line to throw it into the basket,
then excuse myself as I push through the people in line as I exit the lobby.
The only business I do through the counter is to buy rolls of stamps.
That can be done elsewhere.
I always time my visit to buy stamps to when the line is low to non existent.
I am no longer frustrated by the lines in the P.O. lobby.
Dealing with the long slow moving lines is a choice you make for yourself.
Welcome to Puna, the land of the Vocal Lunatic Fringe.
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Was a Democrat until gun control became a knee jerk, then a Republican until the crazies took over, back to being a nonpartisan again.
This time, I can no longer participate in the primary.
Was a Democrat until gun control became a knee jerk, then a Republican until the crazies took over, back to being a nonpartisan again.
This time, I can no longer participate in the primary.