This is by far the worst post office I've had the displeasure of needing.
I'll start by saying here, that I have shipped well over 3,000 packages as I make products and ship them all over the world.
Now, I've seen the lineup of employees over a course of 4 years or so, in all that time only one post worker was pleasant and friendly enough to make you feel like you're not asking stupid questions all the time.
I understand a government job isn't a carnival of excitement and the pay isn't fantastic, but the attitudes and bullheadedness of every employee was risen to new heights in my experience here. I had to fight this office to send my products once, let me tell you here, it's quite a story.
The products I needed to ship hundreds of at once are credit card sized and shaped tools, they fit nicely in a 6"x 6" flat sturdy Kraft paper envelope. It's most excellent due to the fact that by USPS rules and standards, they ARE letter sized. The dimensions are defined and easy to recognize. I went ahead and packaged these all economically in letter sized envelopes, spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on postage. I then hiked up to the post office and they immediately say that I can't ship these as letters... "they're parcel size". I had printed a page with the size regulations and pointed out to them that they are well within the size of a letter, and are treated as such BY THIER OWN RULES.
Because the envelopes are cardboard-like material they believed it could not be a letter...I pointed out to them that they just require to be charged a small fee that comes with inflexible envelopes, [sad when I knew more about the postal system then they did]. The facts laid out bare and plain failed to sway anybody present, even the post master...
Needless to say I was properly miffed, these people were so bitter at their job that they could not take the time to understand fact. In retaliation I sent a sample package to our local USPS weights and measures department and had them define what my packages were...I waited patiently for a week and received my package and a letter back stating: what I'm trying to ship are indeed defined as LETTERS! Of course I already knew this, but the best part is they left in a wonderful clause saying that if I ran into any trouble they would call these post offices on my behalf to tell them to accept my packages!
Side note: I took these letters to a different post office in Solon and the woman threatened to get the authorities involved because she also believed them to be parcels (not letters) and "if you send these, that is a felony" type reaction.
Anyway I showed them the letter from the weights and measures department, and they folded immediately. I gotta say that was one of the most satisfying semantic battles won in my favor so far. I keep the letter in a file and have it ready should the need arise again!
Anyway story over, but the lesson is that this place is for terrible grumpy post office workers who have nothing better to do than be asshats.
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