Comments | lexiphanic: I win!

lexiphanic

I win!

Dec 20, 2007 22:51

4 days before Christmas, went to mail my two out-of-town presents. Airport post office. Round trip time, including driving, 30 minutes. Hell yeah. How did I accomplish this feat, you ask? Automated Postage Machine. Let this be a lesson to you, be not afraid of the big blue box. There was a ten-mile line at the counter, but only one person at ( Read more... )

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mrissa December 21 2007, 11:12:48 UTC

Alas, but I have been sending largeish boxes to Canada for both of my holiday season trips to the PO, large enough to require the big white customs forms instead of the little green ones. It took an effort of will to just focus on my magazine in line at the PO on Wednesday and not yell at the people in front of me, "You're just mailing an envelope to Boise! Go to the machine!" (Well, there was a line at the machine as well. But not as long a line.)

lexiphanic December 21 2007, 13:48:27 UTC

yes, internationals make it much more difficult. they need to put in more of the machines, and start insisting that people who don't need special handling use those instead of the counter at the holidays. of course, by the time I got there, the machine was out of stamps, so anyone with cards who didn't want to run each one through individually had to wait in the line.