Sad times ahead for a country that once so loved its post office. no more dog biting postmens' ankle scenes in movies... no more "honey, should we give the postman something for Christmas".. no, at least in NYC, the postal system is working hard to make itself quickly extinct.
take today, where the newly pristinized 14th st post office had 7 empty windows and only two filled by less than happy workers... not their fault, but still... it just burns to know that someone in the back is having an extended coffee break while the line snakes around the joint the rhumba party... not to mention the benefits these workers get..
and then the delivery folk.. for some reason they can not ring a doorbell for a UPS package... it would require them having to wait an extra 3 minutes for the tenant to descend and sign the slip... instead they just shove the pink paper into the box, write 3rd delivery attempt and saunter out without looking backwards..
This puts me and you in the unhappy position of returning to the post office to wait in line while some really slow moving object takes their good old time to find it...AND as witnessed only last week, the object has often been sent back because it wasn't picked up because most people have more to do than kill 45 min a day at the post office...
Now if the post office sold beer or coffee and had a checker board set up ..that would be one thing..but even with the info ambassadors strolling through the lines in hopes of calming the enraged, it still lacks the charm of the old general store...
Will I miss Saturday deliveries.. well, shit yes. Who will my dog bite on the weekend?
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