the UPS store is dumb

[xfer]

i made up a package for Aysha and brought it down to the UPS Store to ship it and they told me they couldn't send it as is because it was "in a liquor box" (a Heineken box).

i was like "uhh there's no liquor in it, and besides, this box was shipped TO me by someone else, i just ripped off the label" and the counter guy was like "yeah, it's stupid, no one else has this rule except us so you probably got it shipped through FedEx or something." another customer was at the counter and he was like "yeah UPS store sucks!" and started trying to give me directions to a FexEx place...and the counterperson was helping him!

but i didn't have time to go so i had to purchase a new box for $3.45 and just drop this one in it. the counter guy was nice and didn't weigh the new box when he charged me for the shipping, and he just made me pay for the box and said he'd take care of folding it up/taping it/labelling it later.

how the fuck does this stop terrorism or illegal activity or anything else!!!

 

[xfer]

p.s. amanda i just got some more goodies for your package yesterday! i'm trying to accumulate enough to make it worth sending. i didn't forget!

 

[minxnim]

neat!

 

[goatschool]

i just stood in line @ fedexinkos for something like 20 mins and walked out but not before stealing shit.

 

[goatschool]

(then i went to the USPS, sent the item and made convo with the_Cute older shortie who works there—colorblindness and her dad figured into it)

 

[avi]

I actually like my local PO for the most part. small town charm!

the PO closest to my work is hidden in the basement of Macy's and that has its own charms as well.

 

[goatschool]

ample charms?

 

[avi]

I think a secret basement location qualifies as ample, don't you? the entrance is actually hidden around a corner.

 

[xfer]

i would go to a post office if they weren't open only between the hours of 10:30am and 11:45 am on every alternating Tuesday.

 

[kleo706]

My local post office is awful. So when I go visit my parents's cats, I go around the corner to this little shack in the woods. PO Boxes are 1/3 the cost, the longest I've had to wait was 5 minutes, and stuff gets out about 3x faster.

 

[Baliset]

i am fortunate to have to have two post office's in close vicinity to my work that are each open till 6pm every day,

 

[Astral Poetry]

I sent my mix off 3 times during the last mixtrade, and I highly doubt any of them have gotten to boing. I can usually get things easy from our PO, but sending is a completely different story.