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So I go to the post office often to mail stuff 
The area I live in has recently been built up with tons and tons of condos, yet the post office is still rather small with only four windows. Probably the way it was built decades ago. Since there are post offices in every neighborhood, there's really no need to expand it. Of course, the post office does get crowded at times (what post office doesn't?).
Today I got there around 9:45 AM and there was a line of about 6 people with only one window open. The man working at the open window was helping an elderly lady buy some stamps and it was taking longer than it might have since she was needing the rates explained to her. At 10 AM all of the windows open up and stay open until after lunch. I got in line and was treated to a ridiculous bitchfest which had formed in front of me. Two fortyish women and a fiftyish man were right ahead of me in line, impatiently tapping their fingers and toes.
BW(bitchy woman)1:SIGH!!!!
BW2: SIGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *foot tapping*
BW1: I CAN'T believe they only have ONE window open!!!
BW2: It's always when you're in a hurry I guess! lol! <-- laughing like EW's laugh when they are exasperated with the common folk, you know the laugh I mean
BM(bowel movem-- err, bitchy man): You'd THINK they would open another WINDOW for us!!
BW1: I know! *SIGH* I would leave but I've already waited so long!
BW2: It has been at LEAST five minutes (yes, she said this seriously)
BM: I just need to buy a stamp. ONE stamp.
BW1: I just want to mail this letter. It won't even take that long.
BM: I was going to go to <other neighborhood> post office but its even worse there! I thought I would avoid waiting.
BW2: But maybe they're not as slow there as they are here! lol!
Soooooo....yeah.
1) If you just need ONE stamp you can buy it at the automated machine that you walked right past to get to the line. Yeah, the one that doesn't have a line in front of it.
2) Stamps are sold at every damn place now anyway, even Costco has stamps. Don't tell me you were forced to go wait in line at the post office for stamps. This isn't 1940.
3) If these people had came 15 minutes later, all of the windows would be open and the place would likely have had no wait. How is it the post office's fault that we all decided to show up at a typically slow time during the day?
I just felt so bad for the poor mail clerk who had to stand there, working as fast as he can, and listen to these people bitch and moan. I bet he is so used to it by now, too. And after all that, he was able to smile at me and be very polite. But if post office workers seem miserable, it's probably because of people like these
BONUS SUCK! There was a woman with a little baby right behind me. The baby was very cute, but he was a little fidgety and knocked his mom's package over the edge of the counter. It landed very close to the bitchy man's foot. He kind of just looked at it and didn't make a move to pick it up for her or anything! Everybody in the line stared at him for a moment. The woman with the baby tried to get her baby to calm down. After a moment of incredulousness at this asshole's inability to help anybody other than himself, I went around him, reached down and picked up the package. It was surreal.
THEN!
As I was leaving, I saw the bitchy man get into his Cadillac SUV and pull out of the handicapped spot and drive away. Guess who didn't have a handicap placard/plate?
That guy truly was some real scum.
The area I live in has recently been built up with tons and tons of condos, yet the post office is still rather small with only four windows. Probably the way it was built decades ago. Since there are post offices in every neighborhood, there's really no need to expand it. Of course, the post office does get crowded at times (what post office doesn't?). Today I got there around 9:45 AM and there was a line of about 6 people with only one window open. The man working at the open window was helping an elderly lady buy some stamps and it was taking longer than it might have since she was needing the rates explained to her. At 10 AM all of the windows open up and stay open until after lunch. I got in line and was treated to a ridiculous bitchfest which had formed in front of me. Two fortyish women and a fiftyish man were right ahead of me in line, impatiently tapping their fingers and toes.
BW(bitchy woman)1:SIGH!!!!
BW2: SIGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *foot tapping*
BW1: I CAN'T believe they only have ONE window open!!!
BW2: It's always when you're in a hurry I guess! lol! <-- laughing like EW's laugh when they are exasperated with the common folk, you know the laugh I mean
BM(bowel movem-- err, bitchy man): You'd THINK they would open another WINDOW for us!!
BW1: I know! *SIGH* I would leave but I've already waited so long!
BW2: It has been at LEAST five minutes (yes, she said this seriously)
BM: I just need to buy a stamp. ONE stamp.
BW1: I just want to mail this letter. It won't even take that long.
BM: I was going to go to <other neighborhood> post office but its even worse there! I thought I would avoid waiting.
BW2: But maybe they're not as slow there as they are here! lol!
Soooooo....yeah.
1) If you just need ONE stamp you can buy it at the automated machine that you walked right past to get to the line. Yeah, the one that doesn't have a line in front of it.
2) Stamps are sold at every damn place now anyway, even Costco has stamps. Don't tell me you were forced to go wait in line at the post office for stamps. This isn't 1940.
3) If these people had came 15 minutes later, all of the windows would be open and the place would likely have had no wait. How is it the post office's fault that we all decided to show up at a typically slow time during the day?
I just felt so bad for the poor mail clerk who had to stand there, working as fast as he can, and listen to these people bitch and moan. I bet he is so used to it by now, too. And after all that, he was able to smile at me and be very polite. But if post office workers seem miserable, it's probably because of people like these
BONUS SUCK! There was a woman with a little baby right behind me. The baby was very cute, but he was a little fidgety and knocked his mom's package over the edge of the counter. It landed very close to the bitchy man's foot. He kind of just looked at it and didn't make a move to pick it up for her or anything! Everybody in the line stared at him for a moment. The woman with the baby tried to get her baby to calm down. After a moment of incredulousness at this asshole's inability to help anybody other than himself, I went around him, reached down and picked up the package. It was surreal.
THEN!
As I was leaving, I saw the bitchy man get into his Cadillac SUV and pull out of the handicapped spot and drive away. Guess who didn't have a handicap placard/plate?
That guy truly was some real scum.
Few things need to be mailed that urgently. And if it is an urgent mailing... well, your lack of planning blah, blah, blah. 
) and most of the other people in line *know* they can do all this stuff online but choose not to.
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