Going Postal

Why is the post office so damn confusing?? but before I get to that. .....

Attn: People With Kids. STOP bringing your kids to the post office. For some reason they find all the pens chained to the countertops very fascinating and will not let me have one to write with. So I can send something.

Suggestion: chain pens to your countertops at home and let them play with them while you go to the post office. Thank you.
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I feel like I have spent the last six months trying to figure out the post office.

Trying to be a reporter it is a necessary hell to have to send tapes to news directors. I have sent out plenty of tapes...huhummm(throat clear) 26...Okay that is not a whole lot, but it at least counts for something.

Every time I go to the post office I feel like I do not have a system. If I were to go to Sonic I would say a grilled cheese sandwich and a diet Dr. Pepper (for the record I don't like DP, only when it is from Sonic) See, I have a system because I know what is on the menu.

I do not know what is on the post office menu. I think it has something to do with if it doesn't have an email address, I don't send it.

Have you noticed they have a menu? All these things to consider: express, priority, first class. Why can't they just have numbers, like combos.

"Yes, I will take a number one with a side of confirmation, thanks."

Today, at the post office I learned a new term. Always learning at the post office. The term was Media Mail. Apparently, if you are sending something like a book or a tape, it is less expensive to send it as media mail. Well Bob's your uncle, where was this term six months ago.

As of today I have spent $ 146.27 on postage, mailers, overnights, expresses and this figure does not include the cost to actually make a tape. I wish I had heard of MEDIA MAIL sooner!

The postal employee who rang me up said "oh its a tape, well we'll send it media mail," as though this was as obvious as Miss Puerto Rico winning Miss Universe with her chain-link fence evening gown.

He said, "Oh you didn't know about this?"

I said, "NO, it wasn't on the menu!"