post office efficiency
If you have not figured it out, I am a list maker. Early on in the wedding planning process, I started making lists of errands to do. Early on that list was get wedding stamps. So, one Saturday my fiance and I were at the mall and we saw a post office. We decided to buy our wedding stamps, 300 of them to be exact. Cross that off of the list!
Literally, the next day, as I was driving into work, I heard that the US Post Master had decided to increase the postage from 39 cents to 41 cents, effective May something-or-other. $#*&#@)!! My invitations were not supposed to go out until late June. So the next week, we went BACK to the mall post office, with the receipt, to return the stamps. The postal employee told me to just hold on to the stamps until the 41 cent stamps came out and we could do a swap. Okay, no problem.
The 41 cent stamps came out and off we went to the post office, but this time, we went to a different one (because the mall is further away). I explained what happened to the postal employee and she took the receipt and the stamps. She scanned the receipt and the machine beeped. “I am sorry”, she said, “You can’t return these, because we cannot resell them. You can buy a 2 cent stamp”. Um what?? She confirmed this with another postal employee who dutifully agreed with her. RSVP envelopes are not that big. Two stamps would over power them. I was not happy.
My fiance, in his calmness, said, “Let’s go back to the mall and see if we can get the same guy that we got last time”.
“Okay”, I sulked.
We got to the mall and the guy that we had talked to a few months before was there. We got into his line. When we got up to the front, we explained what had happened with the 39 cent stamp purchase (no mention of the previous post office). He took the stamps and the receipt to scan. The machine beeped when he scanned the receipt. He looked quizzically at the monitor. Looked at the stamps. Tick tick tick on the computer, “The difference is six dollars more.” FABULOUS! Thank you very much! Disaster averted. Now why that OTHER post office could not manage that transaction is beyond me, but I should have learned not to use that “other” post office. Did I learn? No.
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