I realize that the postal service is under quite a bit of stress lately. But so am I.

I finally got through to a person at the post office at my former residence. I explained to them that they incorrectly delivered my mail for the first two weeks in September prompting me to submit two different change of address forms to get the problem corrected. Then my mail was properly forwarded for all of one week and then suddenly, when THE most important mail of all is sent to me, it just stopped. Nothing for two weeks now from the old address. Fuckers.

I called them a week ago for them to tell me that my carrier was unavailable to talk to and they could do nothing for me. Their advice was for me to have the sender of the important mail cancel the enclosed check for $3,250.00, write me a new check, and resend it. So, she paid a fee to her bank and did. She wasn't pleased.Neither was I considering I had already waited a month for it.

So today, I get ahold of the Postmaster there who got the actual carrier that delivered to my actual apartment on the phone and she explains to me that she has been out of the office for the last ten days. Like I give a rats ass that she was out. Life goes on. Mail still needs delivered. Why hadn't it been? I called back and asked the Postmaster lady just why the hell it hadn't. She didn't have much to say except that it was supposed to have been and wasn't. She said that the carrier was sorting it today and I should receive it within the next few days. Bitch. Who the hell makes a person that irresponsible a postmaster? Okay so, when you have a business that depends on a certain person to deliver a certain amount of goods to a large number of people, don't you think it would be best to find someone to fill that roll if the person was not going to be around for two fucking weeks?

"Can't I just pick it up?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"It will be there in a few days, Ma'am."

She should be glad I don't have access to a car at the moment.

Posted by gwendolyn on October 16, 2001 at 01:31 PM