In January, I needed to mail a "one last Christmas present" to my daughter, a $4.50 deck of cards with a specific message just for her that weren't in stock in time for Christmas. Due to my work schedule, I had to mail it in the evening. I normally use the Meijer mailing station on Hurstbourne, but their postage machine was out of order that evening. An internet search on my phone gave me this Postal Annex as the only mailing station open, and it would be several days before I could get another chance to mail it. So I drove there from Meijer on Hurstbourne, waited a long time while the clerk waited on a slow customer (not the clerk's fault), and nearly swallowed my teeth when the clerk slapped a mailing label over the envelope it was in and told me it was going to cost me $9.50 to mail this $4.50 deck of cards. I objected to the price, specifically asked if there wasn't a cheaper way to mail it, and he said no, the only other way I could send it was by FedEx and that would cost me $22.00. He told me delivery was guaranteed in 2 days. I wasn't trying to mail it 2-day delivery, but he wouldn't budge on the delivery option or the price, except to go up. So I paid $9.50 to mail a $4.50 deck of cards. I walked away feeling lied to, exploited, and very abused. The small gift that I paid more than double the price of to mail took 11 days to get to my daughter on the 2-day delivery option I didn't want but was forced to pay for "or you can go somewhere else tomorrow." I couldn't go somewhere else the next day. I couldn't go somewhere else until the next week. That's why I was there. I filed a complaint with the USPS and was told that since this place is a Delivery Annex, not an actual Post Office, there are no rules that apply to them and they can do anything they want.
First, the USPS shouldn't have that kind of contract with anybody. That's just stupid. Second, I will never, for any reason, in my life return to that Postal Annex. There is a saying, "Use me once, shame on you; use me twice, shame on me." This Postal Annex will never have the opportunity to exploit me again. Third, I want everybody to be aware of the fact that this place practices extreme price gouging. Fourth, I want people to be aware that I suspect I was exploited because I am female or an older adult, or both, in which case it practices gender or age profiling, or both, in setting its prices. read more
