The Post Office and Christmas. cards and errors!

[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!