Too Big to Mail
on January 25, 2017
at 12:05 am
This actually happened. I knew the Post Office changed their rates so I made sure I put the correct postage on my envelope and when I handed it to the clerk she asked if this amount was correct. I said yes. She then gave the envelope a puzzled look for a while. She asked another clerk what the postage was for a one ounce letter. He gave the wrong amount. I said he was wrong. She said she needed to ask her supervisor and left the counter. I got on my phone, went to their website, and pulled up the new rates. She came back and I pointed at my phone and asked her if the rates on their website were correct. She said, “Oh. If that’s what is on the site I guess you’re right.”
This kind of thing happens every time the rates change.
UPS is pretty great.
I’m actually pretty baffled by salads. Sure, it seems to make sense in theory, but where do you draw the line between salads and lettuce-wrap sandwiches and taco bowls and naked burritos and those weird salads with apples and strawberries in them? None of the clarifications actually hold up to scrutiny, and the restaurants get away with it because most people never bother to even think about it.
“How do you eat this stuff? It’s just leaves all the way down!” -Hank Yarbo
It’s a salad if you can put it a bowl and it still makes you think “yeah, that’s a salad.” Thus, burrito bowls aren’t because there is mostly beans and rice and meat… but potato salad is.
I totally forgot about potato salad! It just gets more and more confusing!
… naked WHUT!? You’re SO sick, man.
Sounds like someone needs to get stamps.com as a sponsor for their podcast 😛
Having spent two hours on the computer doing a revaluation on my inventory I am perfectly aware of the new rates. Price charts are also easily available online to print out for all window clerks in larger offices. Sounds like management dropped the ball.
I don’t own a smartphone, so I had to print out the chat with the customer service in order to explain the clerks in my local NatWest branch that I don’t need an “interview” (for which they had no space nor personnel) to open an account.
Today’s strip feels kind of…I dunno…mailed in.
😀
Why didn’t you just pop it into the mailbox?
Those work both ways – and you don’t have to deal with union stooges.
Mailboxes are emptied/filled by union stooges. But a different union. And we don’t particularly care what the postage rates are. That’s the clerk’s job. Just use forever stamps anyway.
The union got so bad, some folks left – and then thought, “Let’s make our own version of that!”?
In France, we have weighing machines that determine the price of the stamp depending on the type of postage you want and the weight.
This strip makes me think the US is a third world country where post offices are concerned…
Are you basing your perception of reality on comic strips?
You haven’t seen their internet, television and phone services as yet then. Look that up and feel sad that the Baltic countries have better, cheaper, more reliable service using equipment made in NA but not used there.
There may well *be* a restaurant where the bowl comes on top of the vegetation. I’ve seen sillier things on wewantplates.com.
Oh, God, yes!
French fries in a shoe?!
COME ON!!
I really haven’t had this experience… our postal clerks are pretty well informed. Sometimes the lines are pretty long in there… nothing to go “postal” over though. 😉
What is this “post office” you spoke of? Are they similar to the ruins of the bustered blocks?
My local post office must be an exception. It’s always staffed with friendly and well-informed people. The only time I’ve had trouble was when I brought in a Russia-bound package addressed in Cyrillic, and can you really blame ’em? I had no idea what it said either.