This post office is okay, but far from great, and nowhere near the best post office I've ever been to. They've always had everything I needed in the way of materials to mail things, but there's always the same guy behind the counter when I go in, and he is not the nicest/friendliest. He seems to have a short temper/low tolerance for people. I realize he also may not deal with the greatest customers in his job...but I think that just means this may not be the best job for him. I should also say that I am very nice and friendly to people who work in customer service, so I don't think I was the problem.
I have felt, as others noted, that he does seem to expect you to know the answers to many of the questions you might ask, and so he's annoyed and short when answering you, but I've actually found that after going to this location and dealing with this man a few different times, I kind of got the hang of what he expects, so I think I piss him off a little less now.
I haven't been in there in several months so I can't entirely remember what things bothered this guy, except for the fact that if you are mailing a package in something that requires tape - DO NOT expect this guy to use the post office's tape to close up your package. Instead, you will have to buy a whole roll of packing tape from them. I'm pretty sure I've been to other post offices where they had packing tape behind the counter and just sealed something up for me (because I bought a flat rate box on site), but not at this location! For anyone wondering, this must be a big issue there, because I remember there being at least one sign alerting patrons to this policy.
Also, my mail was turned away on multiple occasions for something I think was allowed at the post office in other places I have lived. What happened was that my landlord had gotten some large USPS envelopes and pre-paid the postage on them, so the postage was not regular stamps, but more like an ink stamp that had the date and time on it. These envelopes were purchased and postage pre-paid with the purpose of the envelopes being mailed on a later date. The issue was that I tried to mail the envelopes way after the date on the postage stamp, and this apparently means it can't be accepted, at least at this location. I think the trick at this place is to ask questions about their actions. They simply said nope, can't mail it because it has this old stamp, but I don't think they explained why, so at the time I thought I couldn't mail the envelope period. I think the truth was that the envelope can be mailed, but if this post office accepted it, it must be someone's job to make sure everything gets mailed in a timely fashion, and that "someone" would have seen the date on my envelope and assumed the post office messed up and didn't mail my parcel for weeks or months, and maybe the post office would have gotten in trouble? This would have been helpful to know, because at the time, I thought the envelope and postage were garbage and/or could not be mailed at all, but the truth was slightly different - I'm fairly certain that it was just that THIS OFFICE couldn't/wouldn't accept the envelope, but if thrown in one of those blue USPS mailboxes it would have reached its destination. read more
