Originally Posted by raedar63
My post office wont ship if the label says a diffrent date. I found this out the hard wat last time I sold things on the board. I took things down to get prices and he printed labels and put them on. When I went to walk out he aske me where I was going with all the packages.(small town one trafic light ,three parking places at the post office etc) I told him I would bring them bach when I recieved the money. He said it had to go out that day. Must be a pretty strict rulle cause my Postmaster is a happy go lucky guy that wouldn't do that if he didn't have to.
this is getting a bit overheated, don'tcha think? ;-)
i will use myself as an example. i usually manage to get things to the PO on the same day i print the postage. but there have been times that i've been so swamped at the office, i just can't get away long enough to make the trip and drop them off. i've carried packages around for days before turning them over to the PO. fortunately, none of them have ever been returned.
your Postmaster stuck to the rules. Nobody could fault him for that. If you read all the complaints in this one post alone, add all the nasty things people have written about the post office in past topics at this board alone, you'll understand why the post office wants people to mail things on the day the postage was printed.
if something arrives later than expected, nearly everyone automatically blames the post office. they forget every instance in which packages were delivered in less than 2-3 days. they forget that mail handlers and mail carriers are our friends and neighbors. they forget that it's a back-breaking and nearly thankless job performed consistently under conditions that would keep most of us huddled at home with our binkies.
so ... this essay is to verify both sides of the story and to publicly apologize to every mail carrier who's been blamed for my failure to get the packages into the system on time.