DOES THE POST OFFICE HAVE YOU COMING AND GOING, TOO?

I dunno bout you all, but I hate to go to the PO!

But, it looks like they have it set up so that, in effect, we will have to do just that!

Look at it this way…let’s say that a stamp/postage for a regular first class letter to Aunt Tizzie in New York is XX cents. And the cost for each additional ounce, or thickness, or oversize dimensions are XXA cents. How do we ourselves stick on the just right amount of postage?

Trouble is, that for those overweight/oversize letters (maybe overweight or oversize) we aren’t quite sure if they are ok as is, or if we need to take them to the PO. Unless of course we’ve taken the trouble to gather the necesarry charts, scale, and gizmos that you can slip the letter through to see if it’s ok or not.

When in doubt, I used to just stick an extra stamp on the damn thing and let it go with paying more than needed, in most cases. THEY KNOW THIS, RIGHT!?

Maybe that’s why prices keep rising; and why their requirements keep getting more complicated. They never come out on the short end–we do!

They always come out good on whatever happens here, not us. And still they cannot make a go of it. Always crying “poor-mouth,” always in the hole, needing big brother guvmint to bail them out.

Yet, they love to boast that they do not operate on taxes that we–the people–pay. They claim they are like any other business operating on their own (in this case, non-existent) profits. But yet they still have the (guvmint) monopoly on first class mail, I think, maybe? Why the monopoly?

Again, sounds like they got us coming and going.

Now just who really needs those money orders they sell–you can buy them in any convenience store, probably. This isn’t a hundred years ago on the American fromtier, we should be able to choose these services, unlimited, from a variety of non-guvmint sources.

And the unwanted resident/occupant spam that they stuff in our mailboxes! Why? You cannot refuse to accept just the occupant/resident junk w/o refusing ALL your mail!

Kinda got ya comingand going, huh?

And the lines at the post office to get the correct amount of postage on each letter, else they might be reurned to you–in a few (or more) days.

Got ya coming and going, huh?

Maybe if they made it so folks could just put the right amount of postage on their mailings. Maybe then those lines at the PO wouldn’t be such a problem. Maybe that would lower employee salaries and operating costs.

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