- Forever stamps - 8 Updates
| Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>: Jan 20 08:49PM -0500 |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Jan 20 11:35PM -0800 On 01/20/2017 05:49 PM, Michael Black wrote: > stamps, and slap whatever I could find on. They were just sitting around, > so even if the total stamp price was higher than the price of postage, it > got rid of the really old smaller denominations. I was really pissed when I found out that it was illegal to use the stamps on the pre-stamped envelopes the charities would send out. My mom cut them off and glued them to HER envelopes for a long time. (A friend steamed them off likewise.) I did it for a while, but then got something returned to me because the stamp had been "used". I claim it's not used until it goes through the postal system, but the postal regs say otherwise. Bastards. Since the only things I use stamps for are things with serious deadlines I'm reluctant to take a chance just to save a buck or less. I'm also really pissed that thickness (or perceived thickness) matters. Son mailed me a CD between cardboard. I mailed one back in the same cardboard, but MY post office charged me more because it was thicker. Bastards. AND they put slotted inserts in the corner mailboxes so you can only drop letters of less thickness than the slot size. AND every goddam mailbox in town has a pickup time of 10:00 am -- when it actually has a pickup time given. -- Cheers, Bev "I won't allow the half of Americans who pay no taxes to bear the burden of the other half who aren't paying their fair share." -- Guess Who |
| Nyssa <Nyssa@flawlesslogic.com>: Jan 21 09:32AM -0500 The Real Bev wrote: > drop letters of less thickness than the slot size. AND > every goddam mailbox in town has a pickup time of 10:00 am > -- when it actually has a pickup time given. At least your area HAS neighborhood dropoff mailboxes. The only ones around here are those outside the post office. Meaning you have to drive to the post office to mail the letter or whatever. So much for saving time/gas by being able to drop mail into a closer option. Stand alone mailboxes are even rarer than pay phones in these parts. Come to think of it, the pay phone that used to be just outside the post office was pulled out years ago, and one outside the local mom-and-pop gas station/ convenience store was pulled out just a couple of years ago. So much for emergencies or for folks who don't have a cell phone or whose cell phone can't get a signal locally. Nyssa, who doesn't have a cell phone but does have a post office box |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Jan 21 09:28AM -0800 On 01/21/2017 06:32 AM, Nyssa wrote: > Meaning you have to drive to the post office to mail the letter or > whatever. So much for saving time/gas by being able to drop mail into > a closer option. I just leave it out for the mailperson to pick up. Don't they do that where you live? > mom-and-pop gas station/ convenience store was pulled out just a > couple of years ago. So much for emergencies or for folks who don't > have a cell phone or whose cell phone can't get a signal locally. The local post offices have grossly inadequate parking, which is a monumental nuisance. You either sit in the lot waiting for someone to leave or park blocks away. The closest PO has a HUGE empty closed-off parking lot under the power lines right next to it, but instead shares a tiny lot with a Subway and a few other businesses. The damn lot belonged to Fedco and has been closed since it went belly-up decades ago. How much could it cost to rent it from whoever owns the power lines? Alternatively, spend those $ on another counterdroid :-( -- Cheers, Bev "I can't stand this proliferation of paperwork. It's useless to fight the forms. You've got to kill the people producing them." -- Vladimir Kabaidze |
| Nyssa <Nyssa@flawlesslogic.com>: Jan 21 02:59PM -0500 The Real Bev wrote: >> able to drop mail into a closer option. > I just leave it out for the mailperson to pick up. Don't > they do that where you live? I have a post office box at the post office, not one in front of my house, so no. I only go to check my mail at the post office once a week, so I usually would have to hold anything going out until then unless a neighbor is kind enough to drop it off when they go into town/post office. > ago. How much could it cost to rent it from whoever owns > the power lines? > Alternatively, spend those $ on another counterdroid :-( Yes, the parking lots at most post offices are inadequate and usually poorly designed as far as flow patterns. Even my small post office has TWO ways in, but only ONE way out. If you have the misfortune to time your exit from their lot when the local high school down the road is letting out, you can sit for 20 minutes waiting for a break in the line of traffic go get out of the lot. And of course none of those kids or bus drivers would ever think of waiting for a moment to let a car or cars out of that lot. <grumble> If they had a secondary (allowed two-way traffic) exit onto the other road, the problem would solve itself. Geniuses, not. Nyssa, who wonders how the traffic flow patterns are better plotted in the planning stages of these parking lots |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Jan 21 12:26PM -0800 On 01/21/2017 11:59 AM, Nyssa wrote: > Geniuses, not. > Nyssa, who wonders how the traffic flow patterns are better > plotted in the planning stages of these parking lots If they were smart enough to do that they'd have better jobs :-( If it were being done now they would design it so as to impede traffic, thereby encouraging the use of bicycles and public transportation. Assholes. -- Cheers, Bev Too many freaks, not enough circuses. |
| 21blackswan@gmail.com: Jan 21 01:06PM -0800 life sure is hard marc |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Jan 21 01:37PM -0800 > life sure is hard Since my daughter has been leading tours to Cuba, she has learned to consider many things "First-world problems". This is probably one of them. -- Cheers, Bev "Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper." -- Quentin Crisp 1908 - 1999 |
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