A to B! That's your friggin job man...

Know what makes me angry? The post office.

Now, your probably saying to yourself "Wow, someone who doesn't like the post office? I've never heard of such a thing". Well, screw you, I need to rant against it.

A little while back (this past June) I tried to be a good son and sent a card to my father. Later I was distressed when I got an e-mail from my mother declaring I had hurt my fathers feelings by not sending anything. I called and assured him that I had indeed sent something and we decided either the post office lost it, or they delivered it to the wrong house and the person who got it by accident decided to just chuck it.

Now, the fact that we decided that it could be easily be either of these options does not bode well for the post office in general. It shows that everyone in my family (and probably the U.S. as a whole) thinks that the USPS is incapable of doing its job. Because, really, what is it they do? They get a piece of mail from point A to point B! And, there really should be no excuse for screwing that up when it's all they do.

Let's break this down with a little more scrutiny shall we? We decided he thing that could have gone wrong was...

A: A piece of mail that I (or anyone else for that matter) had paid them to take care of, and entrusted to get to its destination was dropped on the floor of some warehouse, hangar-bay or vehicle and just got ignored and kicked under a crate or something...

or B: A piece of mail that I (or anyone else for that matter) had paid them to take care of, and entrusted to get to its destination, and, had clearly been marked with where it needed to go, was bundled in with someone else's load of mail from trusting sources and was completely ignored.

The fact that it could be either of these options without anyone giving it a second thought tells me that the post-office should not be in business.

Why am I bringing this up now you ask? over 4 months later? Well, I recently got an envelope in the mail with a big stamp on it saying "return to sender insufficient postage" and I got pissed for several reasons, not just one.

1. Tt took months for the card to make it back to my house! As if it had gotten all the way to Maryland, and, just as it was about to be delivered, the guy said "oh, not the right stamp" and sent it back. I live about three miles from the mail processing center for not only the city but the central portion of the state, it should have been back in my mailbox the very next day so I could tell my dad ahead of time, that his card was going to be late.

2. The stamp I put on my card said "First Class" there is no way I could have known it was an old stamp. Can't they assume that I didn't try to short-change them on purpose? I mean, if I had known the stamp was worth the 1 cent less then it needed to be, I would have done something about it. So, if something says "First Class" on it they should honor it no matter how old it is. Which, leads us to point three.

3. The price of mailing things keeps going up. If they didn't keep changing the price of mailing things they could actually print the value of a stamp on the stamp. But, since they make it more expensive every six months to mail a letter, they have just decided to print "first class" on all stamps. I mean... Know what? There are so many things I don't like about them making mail more and more expensive! I think I am going to make this rant a two-parter!