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Wow, that's kind of crazy. I was just upset because I need extra postage and they gave me a wolf when the woman knew it was for wedding invites. I didn't know I cared until then. Still, nothing like that.
I actually have no complaints against the post office right now. The postage for our invitations was expensive ($1.05 per invite!), but the post office workers were always very kind to us. They even let me hand cancel all of my invitations, gave me a post office basket to put them in and congratulated us. Oh and people received the invitations so that's good too!
With your stamp issue, it doesn't seem crazy to me that they ran out. They are like a store, they need to get more stock in to sell them to you. The guy doesn't sound like he was being unprofessional either.
I've had good luck with one post office, not so good luck with another. One postal worker went out of her way to make sure my stamps were "pretty" (and not plain). In contrast, my wedding invitations to the West Coast (California, Oregon, Washington) never made it.
I handmade wrap around labels for our rehearsal invites and there was only 1 going to Canada so I brought it in to get a special stamp. The guy was really nice, had helped me on a few other things, but he looked at it like it was from outer space. He finally turned it over and wrote on the back, really large, where the return address was, “FROM: ”, underline, underline. I just stood there cringing.
Luckily it was just a groomsman who didn’t even see it cause he was still playing playoffs in Texas, and granted I probably should have written that but gosh, they just go at it!!
I had a woman at the post office tell me that I needed regular stamps to send a SQUARE std. I knew that more postage was needed. I did the research. She refused to let me see the "chart" she was looking at. When I finally caught a glimpse of it, it was a postcard chart not an envelope chart. I just decided to ignore her and as for the stamps that I had researched only for her to say, "we don't have those." I went to another post office and got the stamps.
I was really angry. What if I had listened to her. Than I would have all of my STD come back for insufficient postage, would have to get new envelopes from the company, wait for them to be shipped, and re-address everything. Absurd! I made a complaint online, but nothing so far. Frustrating!
NWR but I'm in our post office all the time and have gotten to know the lady and her husband to run it quite well. I went to pick up a package for FI a couple months ago and got him to photocopy his drivers license and write me a permission note. She laughed and said I didn't need to do that, she knew me by now. So a couple days ago, I went to pick up another package for him and she said she couldn't give it to me without permission from him. Wtf?! So now we're going to just have an undated "permission note" that I'll keep in my car.
they lost my wedding jewelry the week before my wedding, and they just lost my photog contract the other day, she won't send my negatives until she gets it back.. but i've been waiting for it for 2 weeks.. she won't listen.. i know my post-lady looses my shit all the time!
Also NWR, but I occasionally sell things on Ebay. I've always used USPS Priority mail because it's been fast and efficient. A few months ago I mailed out a shirt in the recommended envelope (it fit easily) and they walked me through the process, I got delivery confirmation, etc.
A few days later I get a message from the buyer that it's been opened and the shirt is gone. She sends me pictures (and USPS updates the tracking info) of how a bunch of post offices marked it "empty and undeliverable" and then sent it along, hanging open with nothing inside.
When I went to ask them what was up with that (it was sealed tight, looked like a deliberate rip) they would only say that it was damaged and I hadn't bought insurance, so they wouldn't do anything. I refunded the seller her money and was just out the extra cash.
Ugh, my story has nothing to do with invites, but I'm still angry at the post office!
I mailed my sister her bridesmaid dress priority post, which was supposed to arrive in 2 days. That would have given her 1.5 weeks to have her MIL do any necessary alterations before flying across the country for my wedding. (The wedding itself was planned in 6 weeks, and she had JUST finally gotten clearance from her work that she could have the time off under short notice, otherwise we wouldn't have left it 2 weeks until the wedding.) 2 days pass, and still no dress; 3, 4, 5... I finally get the tracking number and track the parcel, which says it was delivered on the day that it was supposed to be. Which means that my sister's bridesmaid dress was delivered to the wrong house. &*&$#&%!
LUCKILY, she flew in a couple days ago, and she can just fit into an extra bridesmaid dress I had in a size smaller than her normal size. We definitely dodged a bullet there, but I'm still really annoyed that the post office misplaced such an important parcel. I'm not looking forward to the fight with them to have the dress returned or to have the cost reimbursed to me.
I went to 4 different post offices looking for my invitation stamps (lighthouses!) before a clerk finally told me that they were only available online! Online they have a poop ton of these things, but they apparently no longer have them available at the post office?! I had to pay S&H fees to get stamps! Ridunkulous!
When I moved to Japan, the USPS lost a full box of over $500 worth of my stuff I was shipping to myself to use here. It never made it out of the States. It was really terrible because it had all my bras and stuff, and I can't buy those here. The biggest tragedy was that it was the box that had a gorgeous corset my friend had custom made for me. It was hand-painted leather. I never got a refund, apology, nothing. Jerks.
@jaylii9: I guess I don't think the post office is a normal store. It isn't like I was looking to buy a shirt and one of 100 styles was out of stock and I'll have to wear a different shirt on date night. It is the POST OFFICE. It is required to mail things--- which is way more important (at least it can be) than most things you're just buying retail. And it isn't like they have a thousand items or like overstocked items are going to expire or go bad. The next postal amounts change isn't for at least another 6 months so every post office should have on hand at LEAST enough supplies to sell all major denominations at any given time.
@everyone else-- the post office blows! I had it lose a really important contract once. I paid $18 to overnight it and then they lost it!!! I ended up sending a second executed contract via fedex and it got there in 12 hours-- then I demanded a refund from USPS and got it.
I totally dislike our post office. First, they didn't have any fancy stamps for our invites (we ended up with some author) who no one recognizes. Then, even though we sent our invites out 10 weeks before the wedding, some of our guests just got their invite, 2 weeks before the wedding. Next, my friend let me borrow her wedding binder of ideas, and needed it back for another friend who is getting married, so I went to send it back along with some wedding magazines that I didn't need anymore - I sent it using one of those boxes that as long as it fits it ships... when she got the box it was empty, nothing in it. There were two stamps on it - 1. damaged upon receipt... 2. Box empty. How in the, does a box just mysteriously open? Then the straw to break the camels's back, - I put a hold on our mail since we will be gone for 10 days, and the post office "misread" the page, and began to hold our mail before we even left!!! I was so mad.
If you spend time in other countries, it will make you appreciate the USPS. Seriously...the USPS rocks. It is so cheap and efficient. They offer a lot of services that other countries' postal systems don't.
I know you're frustrated, but just thought I'd mention that. 
The PO once returned a letter to me, 4 months after I mailed it, that was stamped "found in machine thought to be empty" . . . .
What really surprises me is that they actually have a STAMP for that statement.
Yeah... I put all my invites in Zip Code order... they told me that it was un necessary and threw them in a bin with all the other letters...
Then I found out that an invite got to my friend's place 2 weeks after I mailed the invite. She lives 20 minutes away from me.
They also returned a wedding invitation to me saying that the address was incorrect. I talked to the person and it WAS the correct address! So I had to use another stamp to send out the same invitation!
USPS is seriously going down hill... and you wonder why people do FedEx.
Grrr. I hate the post office. I just shipped a box of wedding stuff back home. First of all, the lady at the post office told me that she could not guarantee that the box would arrive within 10 business days, so I had to airmail it for $50 (!!). Then she told me that I didn't tape my box well enough and that, no, she didn't have any tape. Then once I decided to airmail, she decided this would be a good time to let me have the priority mail tape (that was sitting behind the counter the entire time). So today when the box arrived at my parents' house, it arrived completely ripped open. The tape held just fine, but the box itself was completely demolished. Luckily everything was still inside, b/c if the 100 seed envelopes that I cut, folded, and glued by hand were missing, then I really was going to go postal. Hahaha.
NWR, but I HATE their (lack of) payment system. I found out the hard way, after standing in line behind approximately 8,412 people, that I cannot pay with either my credit or debit card because I have "See ID" written on the strip for the signature. Evidently that is not acceptable. But if I wanted to sign it in front of them then they could accept it. Really? REALLY? I have an entire wallet full of identification including insurance cards, AAA card, library card, NEA membership card, my old college ID, and, oh yeah, my government-issued driver's license with photo AND signature, but that was not good enough. So basically it's fine for me to book my entire DW/honeymoon online with my credit card, but it is completely unacceptable for me to purchase the $7.92 book of stamps in person with my debit card. Yeesh.
Once they told me my package was available for pick up...I go to the freakin PO then wait in the long line..."Ma'am, your package is still with the driver" HUh? how can that be it says it is available that is the box that is check..."Ma'am, the driver didn't fill the form out correctly." But he never knocked on my door to tell me the package was with him... I have been home alllll day! "Ma'am you can go catch him he is on the corner of dot and dot" WTF I have to go track down the post man! Are you kidding me? Yup that is what happend.
@missblueshoes: They have a stamp for that. Awesome.
I purchased cowboy stamps for the RSVPs to make FI happy. When I got home, I realized they were too big and would cover the address I had already written. When I went to return them, they said that they can accept no returns of stamps (totally unused sheets) because their computers don't work that way. Sigh.
Amazingly, I was complaining about it to my dad, who isn't the type to care about aesthetic issues, and he said, go use my CC and buy new ones. It will make you happy. Love my dad.
I took a save the date to get weighed and find out the cost, and then sent it to myself on Wednesday. I mailed all the rest on Thursday at the same post office (but I stuck these in the bin instead of giving it to the guy behind the counter). Guests started getting theirs on Friday. I didn't get mine until a week later.
Way to take forever post office.
Yikes - if it was just that they ran out, maybe I'd understand that, but the problem was that they were locked up and the clerk couldnt unlock them is more than absurd.
I could tell dozens of stories about tattered and lost mail, but I think my most frustrating experience was when I had a postal worker argue that I couldn't send a disk via media mail...then argued that media mail is only for books (which it is not) and told me I was thinking of library rate (also known as book rate, which IS only books). I finally just sent it first class, but I'm glad she was only a temp at my post office!!
I was so frustrated (especially since she was rude about it all) that I went home and printed out the rules online, but I decided not to go show it to her (I figured it wouldnt fix anything and would probably just make me more mad...)
Our post office ran out of letter stamps. ALL 44 CENT LETTER STAMPS! In a major city, no less. Ha.
Our company has a "tab" at the post office, and since our office is a block away, we walk over twice a day because we deal so much in certified mail. We were short like $1.20 the other day, and since I'm new, I didn't know so I asked if they could just put it on our bill. The stupid guy at the window points to the recipient, who is some random debtor (the post office knows who we are/what we do -- collection agency) and was like "How is this poor guy going to know who to bill when he gets this in the mail and it has a postage due bill?" I was like, um, duh, bill US, not him! He was one of those guys who thinks he is just so smart and smirks and takes 4 hrs to do a simple task and then tries to talk to you while he is doing it but he didn't make any sense and was sort of condescending. Soooo annoying.
Reading these stories, is it any surprise that the entire US postal system operates in a deficit and is slowly dying out?
I have also had them tell me that they don't have any stamps until the following day. They suggested I go to another post office. I just shook my head and went to the other post office. When I got there, the guy was also out of stamps and had to borrow them from the lady next to him.
I have also ordered something and they have sent it back to the company saying there is no such address. We have lived here for over 10 years. And the company had the correct address. They had to resend it and make the post office pay for the postage to resend it.
I think the carrier just didn't feel like delivering any packages that day....
Oh boy do I have a post office story, NWR but . . . the post office basically gave me $500 and my dumb A$$ went back to alert them to their mistake. I was getting a money order for rent paid partially in cash and the rest via debit (my landlord takes forever to cash checks and the $1.50 had always been well worth it for me). They ended up giving me a moeny order but not actualy charging my card correctly. When I tried to be the good person and give them their money order back the stupid stupid stupid woman behind the counter messed up royal and ended up over charging me by $500 I can not tell you how pissed off I was she swore up and down it would be "credited" back to my account and the entire time I'm sitting there thinking it was my debit card, shouldn't I just get the cash back because that's how a debit card works. Sure enough the next day the money wasn't in the account and the stupid woman behind the counter neglected to tell me it was her day off. Apparently the post office doesn't work like the rest of the world because NO ONE could unlock her drawer to check if she was over. I actually started crying right there, it was christmas $500 was (is) huge and I just looked at the people behind the counter and said ok so you're telling me the next time you guys mess up to the tune of $500 I shouldn't return it? They finally had to call a manager to come from another branch because naturally there wasn't one there and it took 3 days and I got my money back. They also agreed to pay any bank fees I might incure because of it, it was a total mess. Since then I now directly deposit my rent into my landlords bank account I found out legally he has to allow me to do that, lol!! The craziest part is even though this woman messed up so royally she still works there!
@CorgiTales: Hahaha when I saw the title of the post I was going to post a story just like yours!
I have them weigh my invites they tell me its 80 sumthing cents then another lady tells the lady that was helping me to re check and it ends up being $1.05 k whatever no big deal. So I say ok give me 100 $1.05 postage stamps she says oh we sell them seperately, so I was like ok then obviously give me 100 $1 and 100 .5 stamps she looks at me like I just said something in another language then figures it out and says oh actually we don't have any right now......uh WTF?! You couldn't say that before you waisted my time?
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So the post office basically always sucks. But yesterday I go there. In a torrential downpour. At almost closing time (always fun). For the purpose of getting postcard stamps for our STDs. I wait in line. I finally get up there.
me: Hi, I need to buy 60 post card stamps please
him: Post card stamps?
me: Yea? stamps for post cards...?
him: Yea. we don't have any.
me: wha..... wait what?
him: we don't have any until at least tomorrow.
me: ..... the POST OFFICE doesn't have any postcard stamps.... i cannot buy any stamps to put on post cards... this is what you're telling me?
him: well not from me. you could go to another post office and try them?
me: are you FREAKING KIDDING ME??
him: No. I mean I'd sell you some if we had them. But we don't. Well we kinda do. But they're locked up and I can't get to them.
wtf. lol. Isn't it like... their JOB to sell all denominations of stamps? And post card stamps have to be one of the most popular denominations!
What has the post office done to you lately?