OT -- slow post office

If you like your post office, you can keep your post office.

Nov 21, my check "mailed on the 15th" from Rhode Island to NYS, hasn't yet arrived.

Reply to
Stormin Mormon
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Back when I started my part time consulting 20 years ago, I spent about $30/month for postage. Today, 45 cents a month as one client requires paper bill.

All the stuff I do now goes out in email.

Back when I worked in industry we called it the buggy whip syndrome. You can read about it at several site. Basically an industry that becomes antiquated with progress.

Don't expect government agencies to have any horse sense.

Reply to
Frank

Yah Stormy, I feel your pain. I've been waiting 14 days for a FedEx Smartpost shipment. What a bunch of clowns!

Reply to
Anonymouse

There's a reason "The check's in the mail" is the punch line to so many jokes!

Reply to
Larry W

Per Wes Groleau:

Alcohol was thought to be involved:

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Reply to
(PeteCresswell)

45 cents is the best bargain on the market, for delivery.
Reply to
George

They might have said it went out on the 15th, but did they say how it went? Why blame the PO?

Reply to
George

You're in the New York area and it may be that there is a lot more processing of mail in that area of the country due to dangerous chemicals and contagious biological agents that have been sent through the mail. I seem to recall Anthrax being sent through the mail in the Northeast. o_O

TDD

Reply to
The Daring Dufas

I asked a question, I didn't blame the PO.

Why do you blame the company?

Reply to
Stormin Mormon

Wonder if that's why I feel like wearing a wool sweatter, and bleating all the time? Baaaa... baaaa.....

Reply to
Stormin Mormon

Well..........."it went out on the 15th" could mean that the check was issued the 15th. Might not have left the originator until the next work day, which was probably the 18th. Lot of smaller PO's near me have closed and/or cut back hours. I went down to the PO couple of months ago because we keep getting mail for the former owner of our home who moved a year ago and has forwarded his mail. Explanation was that there is no one permanent carrier on our route....between cutbacks and s----- morale, it might be on a burn pile somewere :o)

In the past, I have known mail here and in the city I formerly resided to arrive on the same day that it was mailed.

Reply to
Norminn

Uhhh, look at the subject line, which you started. I know you probably don't remember, since you're worrying about Obama coming to get your bible, and your leaking batteries.

Reply to
George

George, why are you blaming the company?

Reply to
Stormin Mormon

Where did I blame the company?

Reply to
George

Nonsense. Zero is better.

Reply to
krw

Where did I blame the post office?

Reply to
Stormin Mormon

Wrong. What the junk mailers pay is better.

Reply to
Wes Groleau

Here in Canada, postage stamps for mailing letters within Canada no longer have a fixed price.

That's because the Post Office would raise the price of a stamp every few years by a few cents, and millions of Canadians would end up having to buy one, two or three cents stamps, and it cost more to print those small denomination stamps than they were worth.

So, now you buy a booklet of 10 or 20 stamps for about $5 or $10, and the stamps don't have any denomination printed on them and are good forever. When the Post Office wants to raise the price of postage, they simply charge more for those booklets of stamps.

I find that's a better system. You can buy stamps when you need them, and use them at any time without concern that the price of postage has gone up and your letter is going to be returned to you because you were short 2 cents on the postage.

Reply to
nestork

Don't confuse him with obvious facts, his life is tough enough with all the worries he has. (-:

Reply to
Robert Green

The "Forever Stamp" system has been used in the US since 2007. The stamps actually say Forever on them.

I hate using them because I know the price will go up. I feel like I am throwing away money if I use them before the price increases. ;-)

Reply to
DerbyDad03

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