Aaaaargh!

[tiye]

My post office is retarded and won't deliver my mail. Seriously, I ordered a book about Amenhotep III for one of my classes from Amazon back in mid-April. A couple days ago, I contacted the seller on Amazon and asked where my book was. They tracked the package at the USPS website and got a message saying that delivery had been attempted back on May

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[shake_the_stars]

I am not fond of the USPS either, due in part to the fact that there is no way for me to threaten to go to their competitors, and also in part to the fact that they just hiked stamp prices AGAIN so I am now stuck with a half-used roll of stamps that I spent $41 on and cannot use until I get some one-cent stamps, whenever that's going to be because the post office is, oddly, NEVER OPEN WHEN I NEED SOMETHING.

Also, I share your opinion of computerized systems; Verizon uses one, and I had to attempt to talk to it about 2 or 3 years ago when I was helping set up a branch office for work.
Dumbass Computer: You're calling about an existing account, right?
Lee: No.
DC: Please say your account number now.
Lee: NO. I AM NOT CALLING ABOUT AN EXISTING ACCOUNT. I WISH TO ESTABLISH A NEW ONE IF POSSIBLE.
DC: I'm sorry, I don't understand that sentence. Please say your account number now.
Lee: (now purple in the face) NO. I WANT TO TALK TO A REAL HUMAN BEING.
DC: Okay. You're calling about an existing account, right

[ktempest]

UPS is our friend.

seriously, between the post office sucking in wide swaths and FedEx proving that, yes, they can in fact do it worse than UPS or USPS and still cost more, there's really only one way to go.