2917: Postal

[jen_aside]

To preface this, I know there's virtually nothing in the course of the average day-to-day business that's life-or-death, where every second counts. A minute late to work? Boss prolly won't even notice [unless you have the misfortune of working for Clock King]. You may get shuffled out of a closing businessplace--as I did just now 9_9 --but

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[digoraccoon]

I know there's virtually nothing in the course of the average day-to-day business that's life-or-death, where every second counts

Except maybe if you work at a large particle accelerator or at JPL guiding the satallites.

[jen_aside]

Those are hardly day-to-day, tho, are they? =/ Like, the average person will never do these things.

Then again the average doctor might regularly encounter life-or-death timing, but doctors are still a relatively small percentage of the populace.

[ex_tailsy]

Sure, but most of us would like to believe that our jobs matter and that we make a difference. "Life or death" is a really bad metric for that. =)

[jen_aside]

In the original context, I meant that in the grand scheme of things as applies to most people, being late by a few minutes has little to no consequence and--as has been said in various commentary on the benefits of slowing down while driving [better articles I cannot find at the moment, I should look again at work]--if the person in front of you waits three seconds after the light turns green to go, you should have a little patience rather than lean on your horn because OH NO I WILL BE LATES. Perhaps the person has just sneezed and would rather not burst blindly into the intersection [this has happened to me too often lately], in which case it will only benefit everyone to wait.

[mortonfox]

The post office in my town closes an hour later in the evening but they also open an hour later in the morning so they don't have longer hours than any other post office. Also, Commerce Bank TD Bank is open until 8pm on weekdays. But yeah, it would make sense for businesses to shift their hours a little so people can run errands after work.

[jenova_silver]

Why do post offices and banks have normal business hours, basically?

Because that would be too easy. Though my bank is a branch in the local grocery store. It has hours til 7 pm on weekdays and saturday and sunday hours.

Plus, there is a postal service place that's open on the weekend. (handles UPS, DHL, and FedEx as well.)