It was worth it

[trinityvixen]

I just bought some stamps online from the US Post Office because I was running out and I'd sooner pull my own teeth with pliers and no novocaine than go wait at our local PO.

I only bought stamps. To get them, I have to pay a shipping charge of $1.

YOU ARE THE POST OFFICE. YOU SET THE PRICES OF SHIPPING. YOU DON'T HAVE TO CHARGE ANY, IS WHAT I'M SAYING.

I bought it anyway. $1 for enough stamps to keep me out of that local post office for, like, forever, is totally worth it. Plus, I got to choose what stamps I wanted, and I finally got some price-difference covering $0.01 and $0.02 stamps so I can use some formerly-first-class stamps to mail shit, too.

Yes, this was worth posting about on LJ. Happy Friday!

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Oh dear! That long? Uh oh. I really rather need them by next week some time at the latest... Maybe it won't be an issue since I'm not making anything special, just buying the regular stamps.

Still, it's worth $1 of my money not to waste 1 hour of my life in line at that hellhole. Although if I were in the area of the main office at 33rd street, I'd use that one in a heartbeat. It's actually good, and the lines are never too bad when I've been. In fact, they have a lot of automated machines to get stamps from or print stamp labels, which is really what would fix 99.99999% of the wait time issue at the post office up here. I'm still mad they took out the damned stamp-dispensing machine.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

They had an automatic stamp machine, and got rid of it? That's stupid. Those things make visiting the post office so much more pleasant.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

There was just one of those dispensers--no more or less complicated than one that gives out bags of chips. There even used to be a stamp dispenser in one of the buildings here at work. First they came for that dispenser....

At 33rd Street, they have fancy-schmancy computer touch-screen ones. They work, too, but I have to go to 33rd street to get it. Which makes paying $1 for stamps to come to me seem like a better idea.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

We have one of the fancy ones in the post office down the block from my office. It makes my life easy. (That post office also isn't typically very busy during the work day, so mailing packages isn't too bad.)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I KNO RITE?

I have perfected the ordering on the Metro-North machines to where I can have my ticket inside of thirty seconds. So when I'm stuck behind someone who doesn't seem to be able to read, can't coordinate their fingers, and doesn't have money, much less have it ready, I GO TO KILL MODE.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

POST OFFICE ::SHAKES FIST::

[avram]

As opposed to non-government groups?

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

Your local PO doesn't have an APC (Automated Postal Center)?? I always get them from the machine, there's never been a line... I think half the people in the line have no idea it's there.

Also most groceries/convenience stores sell stamps at the checkout, don't they?

Shipping, on the other hand...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Our PO had a vending machine-style dispenser, which is why whenever I had an actual package to mail, I got MUCHO pissed at the people ordering stamps on the line. Then they took out that and nothing new has been shipped in. I guess they don't figure it's anything our area needs. Jerks.

Haven't seen stamps at any stores around here, either, but we don't have any box stores. We have a Rite Aid, and that's the largest non-food chain store around.

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

Usually you have to ask them at the register. Worth a shot. (But yeah, I do live in suburban convenienceland, and every once in a while I am thankful for it.)