Today’s example: a book I ordered came in the mail this afternoon. But I can’t get it. Why, you ask?
Because, while the box was just small enough to fit into my apartment mailbox (a pigeonhole type in the foyer area), it cannot be removed once the postman closes the front panel; the little door I open to get my mail is a bit smaller in circumference than the pigeonhole itself. So, because only the letter-carrier has the key to that front panel*, I can’t get my book until at least Monday.
Now that’s service.
Idiots.
And, yes, I used that word in the note I left on my mailbox.
*(I asked the complex’s assistant manager, who gave me the bad news. And this was the third time she’d heard of something like this.)
A Seat By The Fire 
Never helps to get the postal carrier mad at you.
True. I’ll probably take it down later and replace it with something else, lacking the “I-word.” 🙂
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UPS Store/Mail Boxes Etc. I have a nice, large mailbox, but I send everything I actually want to get to my UPS Store mailbox: and they can sign for packages, too.
I’ve thought about that, but 98% of the packages I receive I can get sent to my office. And of the remainder, the Post Office usually holds it there for pick up. It was just this one carrier who was determined to get it into the pigeonhole.
Also, lacking a car, the UPS store really isn’t convenient.