The Post Office and Others
I might have gone down this road before, but it's affecting me again.
I've been trying to mail some stuff for about three days and I keep missing the post office when it's open. I keep missing by like 5, 10 minutes.
For example, yesterday, I went to the post office at 8:05 ... it doesn't open until 8:15. So, I figured I catch them around lunch time. Nope. So, I decided I would take a break at 4:10 and go mail the package and two cards. I arrived at 4:18. The post office now closes at 4:15 in the afternoon.
There's even a sign on the door, handwritten, that states they've been allowed to stay open at another time or something to that fact. I don't know who controls post office open/closed times, but it seems they're all different.
Another post office ... trying to mail it today before noon .... Post office closed from 11:30-12:30. No luck.
It's just my feeling (and this is about banks, post offices, and other similar entities) that these places should be OPEN at customer friendly times, e.g. when people have a chance to do what they need to do. Before work, during lunch, after work. It's a paradigm shift, but one that must happen ....
Hey, thanks for asking!!!
2 comments:
Oh Yea! Elk Rapids Post Office is the same! Hello, when do people who work have time to do their errands?
Before work, at lunch hours and after work, after work is usually after 5:00 pm! They don't care!
What can we do?
Random thoughts from an occasional reader...
Take your "pair of dimes" to go call UPS, or buy a stamp at the grocery store, or open a mail box at the UPS store, or use Pack n Ship or any of the other services who have profited from the USPSs inability to do things right because it really isn't making anyone any money.
Alot like our school systems. The average "uneducated factory worker" is better trained in team development and problem solving than our teachers (and better paid.) Private industry management is better trained in managing their supervisors than most school administrators. Why? Because there is no individual accountability for performance and there is no incentive to continuously improve. But, above all, the "guy" at the top makes no more money if the MEAP scores excel. Being a school administrator is worse than being a politian, noone is handing you the brown envelope under the desk. Too bad we can't tie oil company profits to graduation rates or literacy levels or SAT scores or some other measurable -- our schools would KICK ASS.
Sure there are a number of teachers and administrators who're dedicated, love the job and put in 110% without asking for anything in return. Unfortunately THEY are the ones who get shit on the most.
I hear the CM exodus isn't quite over...?
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