Pure Rant

I hate the fucking United States Postal Service. I know, I said I don't include "hate" in my personal ideology, but I hate the fucking United States Postal Service.

First off, we've got those stupid community mailboxes in my neighborhood. Not an apartment complex, but free standing houses. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I thought the purpose of the Post Office was to deliver my mail to me. Not make me go fetch it. If I wanted to drive somewhere to get my mail, I'd just get a post office box.

Secondly, our entire life is handled online. We don't receive a single paper bill anymore. Magazines only come once a week. Birthday cards come once a year. Damn near everything else is either trying to get me to buy something or trying to get me to apply for their credit cards (side rant: I thought we were in a credit crunch? Why the hell am I still getting these ridiculous offers? I even get home equity offers! Can't they read the damn headlines?)

In other words, we don't get our mail on a daily basis. Sometimes it's more than a couple of days. Occasionally we've gotten a note from the letter carrier saying that our mailbox was full and that we had to go to the post office to pick it up. Fine, whatever. But not this time. We got a note that said we hadn't picked up our mail so they were returning it to the senders. WTF?!?

So I call the number given for my local post office. After navigating their mindless automated system, I get to speak to an actual human almost immediately. Apparently they're able to get someone to answer the phone promptly, but they can't be bothered to actually deliver my mail to my house.

Anyway, the end result is that I've got to go physically to the Post Office and see if my mail is still there. They can't even tell me over the phone if my fucking mail is actually there or not. Security reasons, they tell me. Yeah, 'cause al Queada could call and find out if my coupons and magazines are waiting at the post office for me and could use that information to infiltrate the government network and destroy the world!

So I hate the fucking United States Postal Service. And this image pretty much sums up my day:



Thanks to the Rev. BigDumbChimp for the pic. I'm right there with you, bro.