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Originally Posted by OLS

The electronic portion in their service can get as perfect as it can be, but will in the end be brought down by surly, lazy, entrenched jerks with no thought given to the "SERVANT" portion of the title civil servant. Nowhere near all of the employees of the USPS are this way, but over half certainly are. If you JUST take the stocking of materials for flat rate priority mail boxes here in Memphis as an example, you get an idea of what I am talking about. I asked a lady in the Winchester office the other day why they never have flat rate boxes out on the table or near the kiosk, and she said "people steal them." I asked her if she honestly believed that people were stealing them, when the recycling centers aren't even taking cardboard for cash. What possible use is a stolen flat-rate box? I told her that they disappear immediately precisely because there is never an attempt made to keep them properly stocked. I said that just the week before when I saw 10 boxes on the table, I took 5 myself, because it would likely be months before any would appear again. The only reason I didn't take all ten was because I have empathy for the hundreds of other people who can't get what they need. I have complained to the postmaster there and at the main office to no apparent effect. Why is it that the laziest, most jaded A-holes have no trouble passing a civil service exam? If there are postal workers on this forum, I challenge you to make a difference. You are the ONLY people who can get things done in that airtight beaurocracy. I can't even get a representative to return my emails or phone calls, which are not angry (yet) by the way.....phew.

if youre looking for flat rate (or any priority or express boxes) why not just order them for free from USPS.com? They deliver them right to your home or office for free in almost any quantity. I just ordered 100 boxes for the Tshirt group buy and they arrive in less than a week.