posted on December 5, 2003 12:03:56 PM new
I just LOVE walking into the Post Office, around the (now growing) line of waiting customers, to drop my Endicia packages on the counter.
In and out in less than a minute.
It rocks!
------ "Bend over backward for the customer. Don't bend forward."
posted on December 5, 2003 01:00:33 PM new
It's not allowed in Houston either --- we have to stand in line to drop off packages regardless of whether they have postage or not. It's a control thing with those postal workers. I even had one moron postal worker tell me he was going to "check the weight" on all 40 packages I dropped off. The postage (via stamps.com) was hidden, so it wouldn't exactly be an easy task. I told him to "have at it" and walked away.
posted on December 5, 2003 01:50:43 PM new
A complaint to the higher ups would fix that in a flash. All the local POs tried that stuff as well as "If you have too many packages you have to come in the morning.
After the complaint I can drop my parcels,give them to the mailman or show up 1 minute before closing if I chose to.
posted on December 5, 2003 05:01:51 PM new
If they make you stand in line, you should stuff as many as will fit into the drop boxes. Once they start having to empty them just because of you filling them they will probably change.
posted on December 5, 2003 05:03:15 PM new
..so YOU'RE the guy!....
J
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All the monkeys aren't in the zoo,
Every day you meet quite a few,
So you see it's all up to you.
You can be better than you are,
You could be swingin' on a star
posted on December 5, 2003 05:23:03 PM new
The "Panky Letter" doesn't help? Harry from Endicia sent it to me and it certainly straightened out any doubts MY post office had. Email me for a copy...it's too large to post here for you to be able to print it out. Just go my auctions on Ebay and ask a seller a question and I'll email it to you.
Yes glassgrl is my Ebay name.
Or email [email protected] and ask him for something to show your PO.
It essentially says: Henry Panky Vice President of something @ the PO.
To the PO District Managers:
"It has come to our attention that field units are unsure of proper acceptance of packages bearing Information Based Indicia (IBI) otherwise known as PC Postage service.
The Information Based Indicia Program (IBIP) was introduced as acceptable postage several years ago and its use is expanding. Through IBIP, the US Postal Service establishes certain security standards and performance criteria by which commercially developed products are evaluated and authorized for distribution as PC Postage products. PC Postage products, such as this, allow customers to use their personal computers to purchase and print postage directly on envelopes or labels.
Domestic mail items (ONLY) presented with this form of postage must be accepted the same as any known meter customer mailing. Customers using IBI are considered "known customers" and are not required to present these pieces at a retail acceptance unit. Existing restrictions apply to ALL International, APO and FPO mail, 16 ounces and over, regardless of how postage is paid.
Furthermore, carriers should accept mail containing IBI during their normal delivery and collection duties.
Attached you will also find a mandatory stand up talk to be given to all employess who accept pickup, process and deliver mail.
posted on December 5, 2003 05:26:38 PM new
Tell Mr Panky to whip up a Mac Version for us "other" folk!
J
~~~~~~~~~~~**~~~~~~~~~~~
All the monkeys aren't in the zoo,
Every day you meet quite a few,
So you see it's all up to you.
You can be better than you are,
You could be swingin' on a star
posted on December 5, 2003 05:29:24 PM new
You mean Harry @ Endicia, not poor Mr. Panky for Mac Users. Mr. Panky just is trying to get his guys in line to accept Endicia Postage.
posted on December 5, 2003 05:49:13 PM new
Right after glassgrl posted on this topic several weeks ago, I went to our local P.O. and spoke to several counter workers who had the time to chit chat.
One pulled out a book with recent changes and after a few minutes of searching, came up with language similar to that of the Panky man .
Basically, it took just a few inquisitive looks and a "can you help me with something?" statement...
I, too, get some perverse pleasure of walking in, a plastic postal container filled to overflowing with packages, to carefully place them on the end of the long counter - while more than a dozen people are standing in line waiting for one of the 2 people at the counter to be free.
A wave, a nod, a "See ya tomorrow."
Everyone knows you can get one (more if you need them) of those corrugated plastic tubs just for asking - right?
Having a Happy Holidays here with crazy wacky bidders who bid high and pay quickly! This is a good year.
Season's Greetings.
Wayne
Trying to Make a Difference - One Satisfied Customer at a Time....
posted on December 5, 2003 06:15:36 PM new
Thanks Wayne, glad to know it worked out for you.
This was an arguement over here about a year ago and somebody said it was easier to "go along" with the system rather than to try and get it fixed. I replied at the time that every time one person made the little extra effort to make the system work for them instead of against them, that it helped others down the road. I still believe that.
Case in point. Did anybody see 60 minutes last Sunday night with Alice Cole and the people of Bayview? I LOVED what she had to say...
Yes. They don't make all of the difference. Just one little piece, says Coles. And those, you know, like big doors. They hang them on small hinges. And if I couldn't be the door that opened, you know, to a better life, I'll be the hinge to hold the door. So, one person can make a difference. Yes.
posted on December 5, 2003 06:44:06 PM new
I don't use any of the on line postage sites. I live about a half mile from the main po. i go over @ 4:45 & mail my boxes etc. Tonight I went in & there wrer 3 clerks & nobody in line!!!!! In & out in 3 minutes!! Our total poulation with suburbs is 120,000. 3 O's
posted on December 5, 2003 08:36:03 PM new
I don't do on-line postage, either, Sanmar. We all have to get our mail at the P.O. every day, so I just take my boxes etc. down then. Once a month, I may have to wait 8 minutes or so. Usually it's a 3-5 minute wait at the very worst, and we all know each other and chat anyway, hear the latest jokes and the latest Idyllwild gossip. It's just great.
If I didn't have to get my mail there every day, however, I wouldn't like traveling 2 whole miles downhill to do it that often, I must admit.
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"In order to avoid poverty, just do three things: finish high school, marry before having a child, and don't have that child until you're at least 20 years old. Only 8% of people who do all three of these things wind up poor, but a staggering 79% of those who fail to do them wind up in poverty." ~William Galston
posted on December 5, 2003 09:13:35 PM new
Roadsmith sounds like you live in a town like Cabot Cove, you know Jessica Fletcher, where everyone knows your name. Sounds like a great place to live.
posted on December 5, 2003 09:32:28 PM new
Idyllwild CA is Cabot Cove without the ocean. If you're ever in Southern Calif., come on up! 6,000 ft. altitude, 2-3000 residents, lots of friendly tourists all year long, happy residents, kind folk, clear air, pines and streams, monolithic 1000-ft rocks, mountains, animals, quiet and peace. Our slogan: Come be Idyll, Come be Wild.
We're an hour's drive up from hot hot Palm Springs, up into another world, the San Jacinto Mtns. Look it up on a map! Better yet, come see us. You'll be glad you did.
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"In order to avoid poverty, just do three things: finish high school, marry before having a child, and don't have that child until you're at least 20 years old. Only 8% of people who do all three of these things wind up poor, but a staggering 79% of those who fail to do them wind up in poverty." ~William Galston
