>>>>>you don’t have to wait in line at the post office. you can drop them at the
>>>>>counter, or in a mailbox. it save a lot of time, at least here,
>>>>>>where there seems to usually be a line at the post office.
Thanks …. Unfortunately for me, it’s not that simple. More than you ever wanted to know:
My nearest PO is about 30 minutes round trip and is the slowest PO ON THE PLANET. There is a “Leisure World” complex for oldsters a couple blocks away. They have to look at 1 million bleeding postage stamps to see what they want. (“Do you have any stamps with sea weed on them?”) OR show up with a 3-foot-high lamp and a basketball with NO packing. (“Can’t we get them in the same package?”) The PO staff essentially ends up packaging it for them. It drives me to utter distraction.
Yes, I can drop the packages on the counter there, but I usually end up in line anyway. I almost always get one International package it seems, including two for the nyogel to Canada. First-class international mail — the BANE of my existence — must be done at a PO window. International priority mail can be done online (which I do) and dropped off, but not IFCP.
And of course, inevitably, I get stuck behind either some CRETIN (who has unwrapped rusty snow chains going to Breadfruit, Burgazibar). OR some 1000-year-old hearing-challenged woman with an oxygen pack and a colostomy bag, who has to tell the “nice man behind the counter” about her recent lymph-node removal or her painful varicose veins in minute graphic detail.
I mean I’m no spring chicken, and I can understand their loneliness, but the PO is NOT a social club. Did I say arggghhghh? ;) ;) ;) ;)
But I am glad to do it. Other BLFers spend considerable time putting together the group buys and giveaways. It sounds sappy I know, but when you’re in a community like BLF, I firmly believe you need to give as well as take.
Fortunately, I am just here in the “low country” for a little while longer and then get to go back to Death Valley where my PO services 29 people, three tarantulas and one burro …. and is never crowded. I can’t wait. I have had enough of so-called civilization for a lifetime.