Just visited this little gem, and I can tell you, I will NOT be visiting them again.
After weeks of preparation, we were ready to mail our wedding invites. Blood, sweat and tears, as well as some serious coin on paper, went into our invite. The last thing we needed to do was find out the postage. We knew it was going to be more expensive than usual, since it was a square envelope and weighed more than a typical letter. So we visited the post office, not this one, but in a neighboring town. They greeted us, weighed it, measured it, even brought in reinforcements to confirm the postage price. And off we went to order our personalized postage from stamps.com.
A few weeks later we stopped by the St. Charles post office to actually mail the invites. We were greeted by an extremely unfriendly woman, who proceeded to tell us the postage was wrong. We told her we had brought a prototype of the invite to another post office, and this was the postage price they gave us. She proceeded to manipulate the invite to the point of breaking it, in an effort to explain that it's rigidity put it in a different class of mail and it wouldn't be machinable. Mind you, the first thing we told her was that we wanted these hand cancelled. As we explained further, and asked questions, she told us we didn't want to listen and we needed to take it to the other post office to have it mailed. Even as we walked away she was still prattling on about our inability to listen.
Needless to say, we went back to the original post office. The entire ride over we worried about what it was going to cost, since the St. Charles post office wanted double the original quoted postage.
When we got there we were greeted, she weighed it, measured it, and took the invites. We even explained what we were told by the St. Charles post office, and she said they would take care of it. Imagine that, a friendly, competent postal worker.
It's not bad enough the postal service has a bad reputation, but this particular post office in St. Charles is a perfect example of that reputation, but worse. read more