I honestly don't understand how the USPS has been running at a deficit forever. Let me begin.
1) How is it possible that not all USPS locations don't have a 24/7 self serve kiosk?!?!
2) The USPS website states that this location has one. IT DOESN'T!
3) They not only do NOT have a kiosk, it doesn't even have a place for you to deposit parcels.
4) If you use the USPS website to request a package pickup, you' re rolling the dice to see if that actually happens.
5) If you are running a small business either at a commercial property or your own home this is a must. It's your lifeline that will let you DIE!
6) You will get confirmation 1) that your request was received, but you receive confirmation that it was picked up when it wasn't.
7) What happens your residence is the mail carrier's last stop at 6pm or later? You drive to your local post office to find there is no self service kiosk even though the USPS website says there is, but you find out there not only isn't the doors are locked & the lights are off.
8) You drive to the next closest post office. The MAIN BRANCH FOR THE CITY OF CINCINNATI, only to find the exact same thing.
9) Almost the exact same thing. The doors are open because it's the main office & people actually work inside on another floor because it's THE MAIN OFFICES, but they aren't face to face employees & that's okay because the USPS website says they have a 24/7 self serve kiosk. BUT THEY DON'T.
10) No worries, they DO have a pull down drawer for you to place parcels, but you can't get a receipt. it's the MAIN OFFICE FOR THE CITY OF CINCINNATI OH, what could possibly go wrong?
11) EVERYTHING can go wrong because you've used a pre paid label that you can track.
12) Until you can't track it because it sits there for 4 business days before it begins tracking.
13) The next day you have packages that have to go out ASAP & you don't want to gamble on a package pickup you drive package to the Vine St location during business hours with your QR code. The clerks are too incompetent to do something such as that.
14) You drive back home & print your own label hoping & praying that the traffic is light & you get there before they close.
15) At this point you've lost all faith in the USPS.
16) It's a new day, business is good, but you have 5 packages to go out, but you start sweating. What can you do? Gamble on a package pickup, hope & pray again that you get a competent clerk as your anxiety skyrockets?
17) You're now running low on Zanax & you don't want your doctor to start thinking you have a problem when in actuality your only problem is the USPS.
18) It's inconvenient, but you drive across the bridge into Northern Kentucky.
19) Finally you find a post office with a 24/7 self serve kiosk, but you've been fooled before so you bring your package to a real live competent clerk who hands you a receipt. Your worries are over, but can you keep driving to another state every time you have a packages to send out? Can your small business survive this.
20) You can't worry about that right now. You have to get back home & start working again. You're feeling okay & you have a receipts in hand. You're feeling okay.
21) The next morning you start working & check the status of your outgoing packages you dropped off the day before only to find out that they have been routed to the main office in Cincinnati.
22) They all sit there for 4 more days.
23) You begin calling other USPS branches searching for answers, but no one answers the phone.
24) You drive to said other locations seeking answers, but you get none. That's unacceptable & you ask how to reach out to the Post Office General only to be told that you can't.
25) You call your doctor & ask for a refill on your anxiety medication & a referral to a good therapist because you've realized that the USPS is nothing but a racket who is driving you crazy. read more