EggsOverEggs

So I’m standing in line at the post office today and I got thinking “man these people can really be a bunch of assholes.”  Does that ever happen to you.  If you think about, what does a Postal employee do?  They sort mail, they run mail, and they deliver mail.  All day long they deal with the same shit over and over again.  I don’t blame them for being a little short with the customers from time to time, but I think they would be a little more curteous with the American public if they just relaxed and took a step back to examine just what their jobs really are.  Allow me to explain.  The United States Postal Service has America by the balls.  Furthermore they are backed by the American government which gives them the advantage of no one really understanding how they are run or who they answer to.  The head of the post office is the Post Master General.  What the fuck does that mean?  Is he a military official?  If so, and he is a general that would mean he would have to be nominated and voted into that position by the United States senate just like any other general.  What branch of the armed forces does the post office belong to, and why would it even be necessary to give them a military designation?  They don’t even carry guns (that I’m aware of). 

What I’m getting at is that it seems as if every postal employee is aware of the fact that they are desparately needed by the American public.  This is due in large part to their obscenely low shipping prices espcially small parcels and letters.  Think about it.  You couldn’t even FedEx a letter to the end of your driveway for 44 cents let alone ship it across the country, but guess what, the USPS can, and they do, and all you have to do is put up with the attitude.  Por ejemplo, the letter carrier who delivers to my office is a great guy.  He even got me with a “that’s what she said” joke the other day which we all know is the highest, most sophisticated form of humor ever discovered by man.  But if you stack the outgoing mail improperly or grace a certified letter with just your signature and not your printed name, you’ll never hear the end of it.  Several times he has threatened not to deliver certain pieces of mail because the plastic address window on our envelopes makes it difficult for his scanner to pick up the zip code.  (I thought those things were meaningless anyway.)  I would like to tell him to enter the zip code manually, but that goes against my better judgement.  So we have no choice but to comply and purchase completely different “scanner-friendly” envelopes because he and I both know there is no one else out there who will pick up these envelopes and promptly deliver them to their desired location for as little as 44 cents apiece.

This post sucks I’m done.