US Postal Service Standard Mail

Pros: efficient service
Cons: ~none~

UPDATE: I worked at the Post Office Sorting Facility that was recently the scene of a terrible crime in which 7 people working here were killed on Monday January 20, 2006, including the kind lady that helped to train me, Charlotte Colton, mother of 3 ...

Pros: Helps those in need
Cons: You might have to wash out your cupboards

Pros: Not even the clerks, they're mostly grumpy
Cons: None that I can think of

My husband and I have had PO boxes for years, in several post offices, so we have some experience in "in-house" mail delivery. Our last post office was manned by a wonderful gentleman named Tony, who learned our habits, and took excellent care...

Pros: not many
Cons: too many AND THIS IS A MONOPOLY

YES, WE CAN NOW BUY STAMPS AT CONVENIENCE STORES, SUPERMARKETS AND DISCOUNT STORES, BUT WHO DELIVERS THE MAIL? THE MONOPOLIZED POST OFFICE.

Did you know that it is a Federal offense to put anything in your neighbors mailbox? Mail Boxes are...

Pros: Cheap. Reliable over 95% of the time. Excellent customer service at my local office. Friendly employees.
Cons: Different carrier and delivery time each day. Loss of some mail from my post office box.

Like many people, there is a lot I like about the United States Postal Service, but there are also a few things that can be improved.

I am a frequent visitor to the my local post office. I rent my own little box there (I feel so important)....

Pros: Well sometimes I get my mail
Cons: They don't care that the mail carrier messes up regularly

We have a long standing joke through out our neighborhood...we have nicknamed our mail carrier Speedy. The only problem....he isn't quite so Speedy. We even have a neighbor who does a fantastic impression of Speedy.

Speedy comes...

Pros: Fast, efficient, convenient, cost effective.
Cons: None, I greatly appreciate their service.

Did you know that Benjamin Franklin was appointed the nations first Postmaster General by the Second Continental Congress in 1775? A have a few side vocations, part-time gigs where a struggling middle-class family man trying to make ends meet ...

Pros: An easy way to lessen receipt of junk mail and receive first class in your mailbox
Cons: not all junk mail stops coming

If you are like me, you like receiving certain types of mail. I love getting my greeting cards, magazines and catalogues that I subscribe to. I do not, however, enjoy receiving requests for remittance of payment from companies. But, then, who in...

Pros: Rain or Sleet or Snow , They always Show
Cons: Just a Few

Epinions wants to know why I chose this company. I would have to say because it is still by far the cheapest way to get my mail delivered and the only way that I know of personally. Unless I send it overnight mail by UPS , Federal Express or one of the...

Pros: Portion of stamp sales goes to research, tax deductible
Cons: NONE!!

When I was a little girl, my mother would send me to the local post office to buy a book of stamps. This was the extent of my experience with the US Postal Service until I became employed there 21 years ago.

After ten years working nights in...

Pros: The occasional letter gets through, sometimes
Cons: Lots of mistakes, uneven delivery, vehicle for tons of junk

I don't have the Seinfeld quote just right, but whoever wrote the episode where Kramer attempted to put a halt to his mail deliveries permanently was dead on target.

I think Kramer could run for president on a "Stop the Mail!"...

Pros: fast, reliable and efficient workers
Cons: sometimes mail delays and long lines

Yes, I know, I have heard it all before. Yet, I am here to tell the truth about the US Postal Service. (Gulp)...

Did you get your mail today? And from where did it come? Did you know that postal workers work an average of 50 hours a week...

Pros: It gets there.....
Cons: Takes forever

I must admit, I hardly ever mail things standard. Why? Because it takes forever.

I am at the post office at least once a week spending a lot of money to mail packages. I was low on cash the one day so I decided that instead of sending...

Pros: Consistency of personnel, reliability, cost-effective
Cons: Too many mail holidays, service very SLOW following mail day

There's only one big complaint I have about the United States Postal Service: they take too many days off. My birthday was last Saturday. That's Veteran's Day. Since that became one of many federal holidays, starting when I was a child, I haven't...

Pros: Give me a minute and I'll think of one...
Cons: Slow lines, ignorant mailmen (not all are ignorant)

Grant it, I think that spending $.33 or soon to be $.34 for a stamp to send a piece of mail anywhere in the United States is a good deal. I have no problems with that. However I do have a few gripes about our United States Postal system.

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