If you can avoid using this post office, I would advise you do. While I've never had any bad experiences with the employees themselves (except once, see the end of this review), there is just so much else wrong with this post office. Let's start with the first thing you have to deal with, the parking lot. This parking lot is a nightmare, for many reasons. You don't usually have to worry about fighting for spots, but you will occasionally come into the lot and get stuck behind a line of cars because the person in the front of the line is waiting for a spot in the very front. This happens way too often, and if you are trying to back out of your spot, good luck, because the line of cars will have you blocked in for a while. Also, I swear nobody looks out for other cars, whether they are pulling into the lot, or trying to back out. I'm honestly surprised I've never been hit in this parking lot yet.
Now, inside the post office. Chances are, the line is going to be really long, and really slow. Customer service is sub-par, I don't recall having a terrible experience dealing with anyone, but nothing really super great either, though I rarely deal with the people working here. If I'm every sending anything out, I always use the kiosks, unless it's international. I've never had any problems with those, and surprisingly, nobody else really uses them, even when there is a long line. Pretty much the only time I ever come here is to check my PO Box, so if I'm dealing with an employee, it's usually to pick up a package that doesn't fit in the box. That being said, they really need to do something about their pickup window. Even if you are second or third in line, it can take FOREVER. Because it's not just the pickup window, it's the complaint window too. And I can't tell you how many times I've gotten stuck behind someone who is complaining because they haven't been getting their mail, or something to that effect. In some cases, the normal line- which will backed up to the lobby area, has gone faster then the pickup line that has 3 people.
I've had some other issues with not getting my mail delivered to my PO Box. We have a mail forwarder setup for anything going to our rental to go to the box. They never do this, so anything that goes to the house almost never actually makes it to us (we live in a house that's been divided into separate spaces, and the other people living there would get the mail, and I found out from one of the other tenants that they were notorious for losing it). So when I tell the post office to forward all my mail to my box and they don't, it's a pain. Thankfully, we are moving into our own home soon, and I'll be able to cancel my box and never have to deal with this post office again. Moving on to more issues with having a box here. Now, when something doesn't fit into the box, they will either put it into one of the larger boxes and leave you a key, or leave a blue slip and you have to pick it up at the window. One time we had several packages delivered- and in our box we had one key and two blue slips, and really, all packages would have fit in the box. Also, being someone who works 8-5, it really sucks trying to pick up packages at this post office. If I have a package, I usually have to wait until the next day (as I check it after work), and go during lunch, when it seems this place is the busiest. And as I mentioned earlier, their pickup window can be a nightmare when it's also used as the complaint window.
This post office used to be 24 hour, which was great because I could check my box at any time, and if I had to mail something out, I could do so after work. Well, recently they changed that, I'm assuming because homeless people sometime's camp out at night, so now the post office closes at 6:30, and is closed all day on Sundays too, so if I don't have time to swing by on Saturday and I have mail, I have to wait until Monday. It's just hugely inconvenient. I also liked being able to use the kiosks at night to send off packages, so I knew they would be sent out the next day, now I'm unable to do that as they lock up at 6:30.
One other thing. Sometime in December, I got a notice in my box for some new services USPS had for box owners. My post office was guaranteed to have at least one of the three. I can't remember what two of them were, but one of them was text message notification whenever you had any mail delivered to your box. This would be extremely helpful, so I wouldn't have to waste my time trying to check it (I've gone 2 weeks without getting anything at times). The paper said to ask an employee how to sign-up for these services, so the next time I went in, I stood in a long line, just so I could ask about getting signed-up. I finally get to the front, and the employee had NO idea what I was talking about. Eventually she just started lying out of her ass, saying it would take affect automatically, and there was no need to sign up. Thank god I'll have no need for this box soon. read more