USPS Scan Forms...and Postal Employees

[Pal30]

Here are a couple pointers you should be aware of when using the USPS scan forms. Make sure you take your packages to the post office on the day you have printed on the form or you will receive a whole lot of headache if you don't. They will not accept it. I've had numerous problems with our local post office personel with these forms also. It seems the U.S. Postal Service does not see the need to train their employees on how to accept these forms. When I first started using these forms the post office personel asked me what it was, they had never seen or heard of it! I've had clerks refuse to accept it. The postal service continually raises their postage and we continually get less service for our money. I've been trying to talk to someone from the postal service for over a month about a problem I had trying to mail items with postage I printed on line. The on line postage is supposed to be accepted at any post office within a 50 mile radius of the zip code it is printed in. I had to attend an event in a city 30 miles from my home, I took my postage to this city's post office and the clerk said I could not mail it from there because the postage was not printed for that zip code. They also refused to use the Scan form I had printed out. The clerk had the audacity to say to me "everyone wants to play post office" all this while printing out new blank stamps with that city's zip code on them. If you print postage on line and want your package scanned at the counter if you have forgotten that scan sheet you can forget about it, the postal clerks here refuse to do it.

[tallship]

There's a little ditty I came across a while back when someone was having problems getting the post office to accept a handgun from them for shipment for repair - perfectly legal, but they refused to accept it.

Merely download the Domestic Mail Manual from the following location, print the pages pertaining to your issue (You don't want to hear the excuse that they don't have a copy handy, do you?), and on your next visit to the post office you can simply go about your business as usual until the clerk go's Union on you.

At that point, politely ask for the supervisor, and point out the matter to the supervisor, showing him/her the applicable section in their bible.

It might not make you new friends at the post office, but you have solved your problem

http://pe.usps.gov/DMMdownload.asp

Kindest regards,

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