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Every now and then I have to go to the post office to drop off PO BOX's that UPS won't ship. I hate doing it because the post office, 80% of the time, is a nightmare. This time was no different, but it is almost never the post office workers faults.
Never shipped before?
I was 4th in line and this girl walks up with one of the post offices pre-made boxes.
Woman: I need this shipped here please
Postal Worker: this box isn't taped shut.
W: I need to tape it shut? I thought you do it.
P: no, no. Here, you can use this tape. You're mailing it priority right?
W. yup, I believe so.
P: ok then this tape (with Priority written all over it) will do.
When I am next in line she shuffles back to the register (I didn't get mad for cutting because the worker told her to just come up when ready and I was in no rush).
W: here you are! all done!
P: where is the address?
W: huh... oh... I taped over it... (that's right... she taped up the box so much she taped over the address.
P:.... ok, well here is a sticker, just write it real quick.
She writes in relatively quickly and by this time I am being helped by another Clerk beside her.
P: there you are. Ok, priority will be $****
W: Oh no, I wanted this Parcel, I don't have enough for priority.
P: but you said that was how you're sending it... and the tape says priority all over it. Including the label I gave you to rewrite the address.
W: well I didn't know! I need a new box!
By this time I was on my way out... Thank god.
No you can't flatten a book
Another time I was at the USPS a woman was trying her hardest to fit a 4 inch high book into an envelope, then into one of those A2 sized bubble letter bags. Each time she was refused and the Clerk kept repeating "you can't ship this book in anything but a box. it is too high to be shipped any way else. Those are the rules". She attempted, I believe, 4 times before the clerk came around and picked out a box for her to ship it in.
Shipping via Miller Light
I think one out of ever five times I have been to the post office someone has tried to ship something in a box that should never be shipped. Sometimes it's a beat up box that USPS refuses to take since insurance would be a waste. But most of the time it's some idiot who packed their stuff in a beer case box. Not the thick kind you would get 24 bottles in found at a large beer distributer. the smaller thin kind you would get at a grocery store that has to be folded oddly to even resemble the shape of a box. It's usually taped up with duct tape and scotch tape. And nearly every time I see that the person is shocked, SHOCKED I say, to hear that it is not a box the USPS will take.
Never shipped before?
I was 4th in line and this girl walks up with one of the post offices pre-made boxes.
Woman: I need this shipped here please
Postal Worker: this box isn't taped shut.
W: I need to tape it shut? I thought you do it.
P: no, no. Here, you can use this tape. You're mailing it priority right?
W. yup, I believe so.
P: ok then this tape (with Priority written all over it) will do.
When I am next in line she shuffles back to the register (I didn't get mad for cutting because the worker told her to just come up when ready and I was in no rush).
W: here you are! all done!
P: where is the address?
W: huh... oh... I taped over it... (that's right... she taped up the box so much she taped over the address.
P:.... ok, well here is a sticker, just write it real quick.
She writes in relatively quickly and by this time I am being helped by another Clerk beside her.
P: there you are. Ok, priority will be $****
W: Oh no, I wanted this Parcel, I don't have enough for priority.
P: but you said that was how you're sending it... and the tape says priority all over it. Including the label I gave you to rewrite the address.
W: well I didn't know! I need a new box!
By this time I was on my way out... Thank god.
No you can't flatten a book
Another time I was at the USPS a woman was trying her hardest to fit a 4 inch high book into an envelope, then into one of those A2 sized bubble letter bags. Each time she was refused and the Clerk kept repeating "you can't ship this book in anything but a box. it is too high to be shipped any way else. Those are the rules". She attempted, I believe, 4 times before the clerk came around and picked out a box for her to ship it in.
Shipping via Miller Light
I think one out of ever five times I have been to the post office someone has tried to ship something in a box that should never be shipped. Sometimes it's a beat up box that USPS refuses to take since insurance would be a waste. But most of the time it's some idiot who packed their stuff in a beer case box. Not the thick kind you would get 24 bottles in found at a large beer distributer. the smaller thin kind you would get at a grocery store that has to be folded oddly to even resemble the shape of a box. It's usually taped up with duct tape and scotch tape. And nearly every time I see that the person is shocked, SHOCKED I say, to hear that it is not a box the USPS will take.
One Christmas, a cashier at the main postoffice was reinforcing and taping over everyone's boxes, including mine. The employee seemed concerned about my tape job (I'd taped the sucker quite well, actually) and I assumed that was standard practice at the post office. I found out the truth the next Christmas when the cashier made me go buy tape for my open package. 
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