The Post Office and Christmas. cards and errors!

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

ROTFLMAO !!!
I tried to visualize things,and couldn't stop laughing...

[jazzcat]

This is off topic but as I read your post and came across "hare lip" I had a light bulb go off over my head. I have heard that term since I was about 10 years old (first time from a bad joke ) but I have never seen it written until now. My whole life I had always thought it was "hair lip" and wondered why it was called that but now knowing it's "hare lip" I understand.

Guess I've had a blonde moment for the past 30 years.

[Pam]

You had quite a day....it seems that the "senior moments" are beginning for you! Of course I wouldn't insult you without confessing to one of my own that involves the post office.

One morning on the way to work I cashed a check for Christmas shopping and, since it was for $250, I put it in the secret compartment of my pocketbook for safekeeping. I then went to work, and after work, as I always do, I stopped at the box outside of the post office to deposit the mail from my office. I also reached inside my pocketbook where I had placed my own personal mail which I had planned to mail along with my office mail.

Driving home from the post office I looked inside my pocketbook for the envelope with the $250 and couldn't find it. I drove back to the post office (10 miles) and went inside and asked if someone could get the mail from the outside drop box as I was "sure" I had thrown the envelope with the cash into it when I pulled out my own mail (totally forgetting that my envelope with the cash was safely inside the secret compartment). It was 4:55PM and they were scheduled to remove the mail from the box at 5:00PM and suggested that I wait and they would bring it in and go through it.

As I stood there, I remembered about the secret compartment and very sheepishly went to the window and explained to the clerk that I had my money all the time! I was ready to wring my own neck after all of that needless driving and stress!!

[Lady's Human]

I'd say send a nice letter to the PO about the clerk being helpful, but......

The clerk would get written up for spending so much time on a non-transacting customer, and also for not explaining to you that the ZIP really wouldn't matter much, as most parcels now go through an OCR which takes less and a second to fugre out an address in the bast case scenario.

[lvpets2002]

Only you Richard could make going to the Post Office 3 times sound like so much funn.. great story thanks

[RICHARD]

I'd say send a nice letter to the PO about the clerk being helpful, but......

The clerk would get written up for spending so much time on a non-transacting customer, and also for not explaining to you that the ZIP really wouldn't matter much, as most parcels now go through an OCR which takes less and a second to fugre out an address in the bast case scenario.

I didn't quite mention that the town name AND the Zip were wrong!


I really appreciate people being helpful, above and beyond! That really sucks, I should have known that because I was threatened with being written up for being "useful" when people needed help.

When a regular clerk was out of the office and someone came in to sign a birth certificate-that didn't speak English-I was asked to come up and help them out. At the time there was a extra monthly differential (pay) for doing translation. I refused to do it for actual patients-I was afraid that I would get something wrong and there was a story about a translator who almost killed a patient with a miscommunication about allergies.

My boss was ticked off that I didn't sign up for the extra pay-She thought that I should get paid for it, but why should I get paid for something that I was not willing to do all the time?

Anyway, I was told not to help anyone that came in to sign a BC. Later on there was HUGE scandal when they found out that the clerk had a business on the side of selling BC copies to people. If an illegal alien had a child they needed to enroll in a school, get Medi-Cal for, or ???? He would get a blank certificate, have a doc sign it, then fill out the info-backdating it.

Later on we figured out that he was making a few hundred dollars on each 'sale'- I figured out, later on, that my boss wanted me out of the investigation that was started and she ended up paying for the fiasco when they demoted her on a technicality.

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Pam, we all know about your secret compartment now!

[Freedom]

Richard, what a day! And only you could find a way to write it up that is so entertaining. Thanks much!

When I was living in Maine, I had a problem (can't recall what it was, now) so I had to get a ton of receipts photocopied to explain what had happened. On my way out from doing the copying, I stopped to mail some letters, at a drop box.

Got home, couldn't find the original receipts, couldn't find my copies. WHAT? Thought through what I did and . . . realized I had put everything in the mail box!

I raced back, checked the box, no pick up for another 2 hours. I went inside to speak with the clerk, who really had nothing to do with the post office. She told me he arrives anywhere from 10 minutes early to 20 minutes late, and ya never know.

Dashed home, got a book, drove back, and sat in the car reading and keeping an eye on "MY" mail box until the postal carrier drove up.

Raced over and explained to him. He told me (later, I realized he was probably teasing me) that once a letter is mailed, it is not my property and he can't return it. What if I wanted someone else's package, which had cash in it? I thought that over and explained that this WASN'T a letter I wanted, it was papers which the post office wouldn't want and would only throw away, and could I have his trash? Meantime, he was opening the box, removing the insides. And there was my pile of paperwork! I did get it back, thank goodness. Whew!