Postal worker must have watch L&O the night before

Status
Not open for further replies.
Joined
Sep 28, 2002
Messages
39,798
I didn't have the right postage ..and usually don't ..so I walk into my local post office ..as I have many times before and take my little sample thingie. A guy flags me from the waiting line and I hand it to him ...I know the drill so I say "liquid, non-hazardous". Now this is the first time ..out of about a dozen such mailings where the person behind the counter asked "What liquid? Water?". I said "No, oil." He says, "What kind of oil?" I say, "Motor Oil". He goes, "Well that's hazardous." I said, "No it's not ..thousands are mailed everyday". I then point to the senior postal lady who knows all about these things ..and has sent my samples a few times, "She knows all about them". He ignores me and continues on with some rhetoric ..with some deliberate confidence of "knowing" type stuff that you expect from Lennie Briscoe minus the sarcasm. He then calmly put the stamp on it and gave me my change.

It was what appeared as some type of "spot check". I imagine that this was some "target of opportunity" for many of our public servants that need a good excuse to prove that they're doing their job.

For some odd reason ..he was attempting to make me tap dance.
confused.gif
I just can't keep up with that type of tune anymore.
grin.gif


Now for those that will surely be compelled to tell me to drop it in a mail box ..read the top line again
laugh.gif
Aside from holiday letters/cards ..I mail about 3 letters a month ..if that. Postage usually goes through a rate increase before I exhaust one or two books of stamps ..and my supply of $0.01 stamps is never enough.
 
I'll put multiple stamps on something and eat the change just so I don't have to go to the dungeon (post office). It's funny; the people in line at the post office; it looks like people are being sent to the gas chamber they look so piissed about being there!
 
I spend extra on postage at times as well so I can just drop my sample off in a postal drop box. I probably save almost enough on gas by not going out of my way it is a wash for me anyway. I don't want to deal with what you went though, I have better things to do.
 
I had post paid kits and it was nice just dropping them in the mailbox. When I had to go in for postage, I went to Meijers because they don't ask.
 
Gary, did you you tell him about flashpoints, etc. & turn the tables showing him that you know what you're talking about or did you take the easy way out and let him think that he just saved lives?
smile.gif
 
I've encountered new postal workers and seen their
confused.gif
look ..not an issue. This I expect. This is the first time that I encountered a @$@$-*ead that just wanted to give me a hard time ..and waste it in the process out of deliberate purposeful intent.

He knew it wasn't hax-mat ..yet said it was anyway. He ignored simple confirmation remedies of a senior postal worker in very close proximity.

This was a test for someone justifying their job and it was done in a disingenuous manner.

So ..the pencil neck public dole parasite (I'm just venting- relax any of you postal workers out there
grin.gif
) was producing his own justification ..not discovering it ...when he, himself, knew none existed.
 
Quote:


I'll put multiple stamps on something and eat the change just so I don't have to go to the dungeon (post office). It's funny; the people in line at the post office; it looks like people are being sent to the gas chamber they look so piissed about being there!




So true...and it's coast to coast.
 
my oil samples go in the mailbox that say "no postage is necessary if mailed in the USA" thanks butler. saves me alot of aggrevation.
 
iirc, DHL has a no-motor-oil shipping policy. The clerk was unaware, but I knew from reading their literature.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top