USELESS - Self Service Machine at Post Office

[Muss Muggins]

I get my stamps from my bank's ATM. Costs me two stamps (book of 18 for same price as 20 at the PO). It's worth the convenience . . .

 

[CH4]

You don’t truly appreciate the USPS until you live in another country.

 

[tlawler]

Personally I think USPS is very good. The amount of mail they handle daily is astonishing. No other can even hold a candle to what they do. Use of machines is good in most cases. A failure of them is in a humans design, manufacture or use/abuse of them. Who is to blame for the design use and abuse of humans when they fail while trying to mail something? Same goes fo rmost everything we do.

I’ve no fault with the USPS either. Better than fedex and ups for most things in my opinion. As far as the kiosks go, I’ve used them on occasion and had no issue. I just wish you could get a USPS money order out of one.

 

[NYlakesider]

Just a general though about the use of those machines.

I do not use them unless its the last option I have.

Go to the store, will let the cashier do their thing. Go to a fast food restaurant, Panera and Mickey Dees come to mind, go to the counter.

Thats me, your results or likes/dislikes might be different!

 

[df06]

Privatize the USPO and things will get sorted out. Government cant manage anything.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Privatize the USPO and things will get sorted out. Government cant manage anything.

We've discussed this ad naseum. The Post Office, unlike any other government organization, only operates on the revenue generated by postage. Privatize it, and the cost of postage will increase logarhythmically . . .

 

[Cardboard_killer]

I'm a big fan of the USPS. I think they do a much better job than any private company would do. As someone mentioned above, living in another country will give you a much better appreciation of what the USPS does so well.

 

[Cardboard_killer]

And you are wondering why the old machine required replacement?

Well, I can guess why. My complaint is that they put new technology in during their busiest period. I live in a wintering place for elderly yankees, and the lines double during the winter, and the lines triple during christmas. Going to mail something at 5am cuts out five minutes parking and twenty minutes in a line.

 

[345sire]

Will they look like this.[emoji1]

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Yes, except it will have 8 arms and no legs.

 

[Rustyt1953]

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[johngalt]

I guess we can always count on a 'whine about the post office' thread. Good luck finding a private company that could do it better.

And it is actually one of the activities that IS authorized in the Constitution.

 

[Bekeart]

Machine could not sell me a stamp.

Machine could not sell me a stamp.

Calculated postage for the letter was 71 cents.

Could not print and sell me a 71 cent stamp.
Must buy at least 29 cents.

Who sets up this soft ware??

 

[tlawler]

Machine could not sell me a stamp.

Calculated postage for the letter was 71 cents.

Could not print and sell me a 71 cent stamp.
Must buy at least 29 cents.

Remember the good old days. I heard they took them out because the millennials couldn’t figure out how to use them

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Like some (not all) postal employees, the machines only work when they feel like it and only to the extent that they feel like it.

 

[snubbyfan]

Happily enough, out here in small town West Virginia, we still have old fashioned and obsolete. There's no new fangled self serve machines and the people at the Post Office actually know our names.
They say that small West Virginia towns are "backwards." Works for me.

 

[Watchdog]

The one at my PO does not accept cash. It wants credit card only.

A lot of hassle just to buy a book of stamps to mail an impromptu letter.

Well then, why don't you just buy a book of stamps and keep it at home? Or buy two books and keep one in your wallet or in the car or at the office?

Then when you get that infrequent urge to mail one of those impromptu letters, just stick a stamp on it and put it in the mailbox?

 

[Watchdog]

Privatize the USPO and things will get sorted out.

Right. And the Tooth Fairy will leave some money under my pillow tonight for the tooth I had extracted yesterday.

I guess we can always count on a 'whine about the post office' thread.

Yep. And next week will probably see a new thread about what sort of rig is needed to open carry a bear gun.

 

[Salty RI]

We still have a few PO,s that arn't much bigger than a lawn shed.

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[Watchdog]

We still have a few PO,s that arn't much bigger than a lawn shed.

North Carolina used to have a tiny post office. It was located in Salvo, North Carolina...on the Outer Banks. A genuine piece of Americana.

It's been moved from its original location, and the post office sign is gone. It's apparently still in Salvo, though.

It was something like eight feet wide and twelve feet long, and had post office boxes for ninety-five people. Might not have had room inside for a stamp machine for folks to complain about.

 

[Salty RI]

We have a few just like that.

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