Going postal at Christmas...

[ramanth]

It would of been nice if the postal workers had told her she was not next and to get in line.

Sorry she was rude. I've seen it happen at the grocery store at those self checkouts. People cut all the time.

[lvpets2002]

ramanth I thought you were going to say it would have been nice if the postal workers were Nice.. I know here the Postal Workers can be very rude.. Oh of course they if they cant smile = then they sure cant tell you to wait your turn..

It would of been nice if the postal workers had told her she was not next and to get in line.

Sorry she was rude. I've seen it happen at the grocery store at those self checkouts. People cut all the time.

[Blue_Frog]

Ooo... queue hoppers always make me mad too!

When I was still working retail, i remember it being around this time of year and we had a line up at the till - and some woman cut the line to the front. Everyone grumbled, but no one really said anything about it. I finished the customer i was helping, and said "next customer please" -- so the woman came to the front and put down her things. I said "I'm sorry, you're not next, this other lady is" (indicating the the person who got cut in on) "you'll have to join the line like the rest of the people here"

Well didn't she raise a stink! I took the next customer around her, and the next, all the while her raising heck about the level of service in the store, and what a b#$%^ I was, etc. etc., and eventually she left her items and left the store without purchasing them. Everyone else was pretty happy with the fact that she didn't get her way.

[Randi]

I said "I'm sorry, you're not next, this other lady is" (indicating the the person who got cut in on) "you'll have to join the line like the rest of the people here"

Well done!!

[Donnaj4962]

Our postal workers seem to be in very good spirits most of the time, and they will tell someone that they will need to wait their turn. I sure appreciate that. People in line can grumble all they want, but if the "line cutter" really doesn't care that they are making people upset, they will understand when they worker tells them they have done wrong. I, too, get upset with people who pretend not to understand English. That is simply no excuse to break the rules!

Ahhhh, the Holiday season..... I am doing my best to be merry as I scurry about doing my shopping. It will be better next week when I am making deliveries!

[elizabethann]

You should have put a stamp on her forhead & shipped her home.

But that wouldn't be right I guess. Not sure what I would have done had that happened to me. I try to practice extra patience around the holiday's because I'm sure somebody's going to eventually do somthing to really pi$$ me off.

[ramanth]

ramanth I thought you were going to say it would have been nice if the postal workers were Nice.. I know here the Postal Workers can be very rude.. Oh of course they if they cant smile = then they sure cant tell you to wait your turn..

LOL! Well luckily the post office workers I come across are very friendly even during this time of the year. But maybe it helps that I'm smiling all the time despite a long wait.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

A lot of people pretend to not understand English when they think it will help them get there own way.

[cyber-sibes]

It was up to the postal worker (who probably couldn't care less) to explain to her that she should go to the end of the line. I would probably have said "Excuse me, but I believe I'm next in line" rather loudly if she walked up to the window in front of me. But since I'm guilty of doing stupid things on occasion, I try not to get too bent out of shape at other people's stupidity.
Things like this are one more reason I love our little post office - the longest line I ever see there is three people!

[Lady's Human]

Postal Clerks are fairly limited in what they can say to customers. There is a list of questions they have to ask, rules for what they can and cannot tell a customer, and the clerks never know when the rude person in line is just a postal customer or a "mystery shopper".

[Edwina's Secretary]

Is it possible....just possible...that the woman REALLY doesn't understand English well...nor North American customs and was well....confused?

[JuniorxMyxLove]

Ahh! Even if she didn't understand English, that still gave her no reason to cut. It seems like she did uderstand english, enough to claim she didnt!

I don't raise big things alot, but I would have confronted the lady working there about why she let her cut! Understanding English or not, she should still have to wait in line.

[moosmom]

Is it possible....just possible...that the woman REALLY doesn't understand English well...nor North American customs and was well....confused?

Hardly. She certainly new how to fill out her slip in English and knew the meaning of "Next in line!!!"

[Lady's Human]

Raise a stink all you want, there's not much (if anything) the postal clerk can do.

Remember, just like anyone else in a retail business, they have rules to go by, and mystery shoppers to contend with. They are very limited in what they can say to a customer.

[K9karen]

Ehhh.. been there, Donna....

I was 4th in line for a lottery ticket. A lady was at the counter on the side, making out her lottery slips. She casually stands right in front of me. You know me, I rarely lose my cool, but I had to bite my tongue on this one. I very politely but firmly told her, (as well as pointed) that the BACk of the line was thataway, not in front of me. She started getting very angry at ME and said she was there before me and that I was in her space....

The people in back of me got really PO'd too, but did she move? No. I told her that if it wasn't around the holidays and I was in a fairly festive mood, I'd ...well...I can't print what I said (another rarity for me) ..but let her be. It wasn't worth her getting me all upset.

Donna, I doubt it was a cultural/race, whatever issue. It was plain rude. Politeness and coutesy is universal and carries no language barrier. I travelled to remote places where people spoke no English and never had a problem.

I always say.. what goes around, comes around.