[78-L] Who do these guys think they are? ^

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

The counter folk at the Houston Oak Forest PO are nice & they all know my name too, Long lines sometimes with only 2 tellers (used to be 3 of them) and every now & then one of them is handling passport applications instead of mail. I'm kinda used to it although I don't like the price increases when I know they have cut staff back. Blame it on the bad economy I guess....



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>From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com> 
>Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:11 PM
>Subject: Re: [78-L] Who do these guys think they are? ^
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>The agents are all nice and friendly at this location, and the parking is great 
>(as opposed to, say, that gigantic terminal north of the Tops in the north end 
>of Buffalo). Where everybody knows your name. But man, that's a 25% increase 
>and as far as I'm concerned, the original invoice should be legally binding! If 
>there'd been a "pay before the 23rd" provision, it would be different.
>
>And no, they don't lose packages and they don't ship stuff back if I don't pick 
>it up within 15 days. Disadvantage to it being a small PO: one employee was 
>doing passport applications for about 15 minutes, and I was at another counter 
>sending out 25 parcels, so the lineup was getting pretty grumpy.
>
>dl
>
>On 1/31/2012 2:01 PM, H D Goldman wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Same thing here.  Went in to pay for invoice a week ahead of time&  was greeted with the increase&  a take it or leave it attitude.
>>
>> So major price increases, UPS/FedEx to PO boxes&  even rudder counter agents    ….. whoopee.
>>
>> On the upside, it's been years since they lost or damaged a package.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Duane Goldman
>>
>> On Jan 31, 2012, at 11:55 AM, David Lennick wrote:
>>
>>> I ran into an interesting situation yesterday at my friendly US Post Office
>>> when I went to ship stuff and pay for renewal of the box. Anybody else come up
>>> against this? On December 30th, they left me a renewal notice with a due date
>>> of January 31 and a fee of $48 for 6 months or $96 for a year. Yesterday, in my
>>> mailbox, was a friendly reminder printed January 28th, with a due date of
>>> January 31 and a fee of $60 for 6 months or $120 for a year. Loudly did I
>>> protest, since I had (and still have, in my opinion) a legally binding invoice
>>> for the original price, and yea did they agree with me, but the system had the
>>> new fees programmed in, and their claim was that all prices went up as of (I
>>> think) January 23..something that I still haven't seen in writing.
>>>
>>> We left it at "We'll get back to you" and "We promise not to close your box if
>>> you haven't paid by the 31st" (since I can't, until I'm back down there in a
>>> week or so) but I wonder who's going to win this one? By the way, they ARE
>>> upgrading the service and will be able to accept UPS shipments since they're
>>> now allowing mail to be sent specifically to their street address.
>>>
>>> dl
>>
>> H D Goldman Lagniappe Chemicals Ltd.
>> PO Box 37066 St. Louis, MO 63141 USA
>> v/f 314 205 1388 thedoctor at discdoc.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
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