Thursday, May 04, 2006

three annoying things

Exhibit A: Super-duty, turbo-diesel pickups driven by people who don't need them.

Exhibit B: Wasting time at the city post office. Need a flat-rate priority mail envelope and label? Well, you're going to have to stand in line to get one, then fill it out and stand in line again to mail it. Why? Because although the office has plenty of space, that space does not include a kiosk with envelopes, boxes and labels for priority mail. Nor does it contain an automated postal machine (there are three in the Tri-Cities, but zero here). Nor does the one self-serve option - the stamp machine - contain all the stamps you might need (like, for Christ's sake, three cent stamps to handle the not-so-recent rate increase). At least the Postal Service's Web site has this lovely section.

Exhibit C: Man, the trucks and postal hassles are bad enough.

So here's an antidote.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What???!!!!! Are you saying that the truck that the Dominos Pizza guy drives to my house - more frequently than i care to admit - is OVERKILL. Surely, his "Dually" is necessary for delivering pizza in the urban jungle that is the manicured canyons of Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades...I mean our street is so narrow that traffic can only go one direction and you can only park on one side of the street. The four mile round trip to deliver my $15 pizza must cost him nearly $3.50 in gas these days......