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So I had to make a post office run yesterday to ship off a pile of Amazon sales (they must be smoking some weird shit to come up with their shipping allowances...media mail rates for toys?! Hi, not allowed!). Two of my 3 boxes fit in the APC drop box, the third was just a hair too wide, so I hopped in line with it (I had already paid for and printed the label).
I spy two guys over at one of the little counters trying to put something in a box.
They were trying to ship a Tickle Me Elmo doll, no original package and even looking at the silly thing too closely set it off. No effort was made to remove the batteries.
Lady in line in front of me: "I can imagine the postal worker's face when he picks that box up."
Seems I should submit that as a secondhand sighting to Postal Experiments. I wasn't able to stick around to find out if it was accepted though...
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Concurrent to the above. An older woman entered, looked at the line, huffs, then stormed over to the Superintendent's office door and bang loudly, then look back at the line with the quintessential CBF. Rinse and repeat 2 or 3 times, then the postmaster comes out (there's a HUGE sign not to knock on the door, but rather go to the counters for help).
Apparently she wanted him to get more people on the counter. Hi, all counter stations are already open, there's a line, it's the holiday shipping season. Of course there's going to be a line!
What was so pressing? She was shipping a box that she hadn't packed, sealed or filled out a label yet (hint: that's what the customer counters scattered around are for).
I spy two guys over at one of the little counters trying to put something in a box.
They were trying to ship a Tickle Me Elmo doll, no original package and even looking at the silly thing too closely set it off. No effort was made to remove the batteries.
Lady in line in front of me: "I can imagine the postal worker's face when he picks that box up."
Seems I should submit that as a secondhand sighting to Postal Experiments. I wasn't able to stick around to find out if it was accepted though...
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Concurrent to the above. An older woman entered, looked at the line, huffs, then stormed over to the Superintendent's office door and bang loudly, then look back at the line with the quintessential CBF. Rinse and repeat 2 or 3 times, then the postmaster comes out (there's a HUGE sign not to knock on the door, but rather go to the counters for help).
Apparently she wanted him to get more people on the counter. Hi, all counter stations are already open, there's a line, it's the holiday shipping season. Of course there's going to be a line!
What was so pressing? She was shipping a box that she hadn't packed, sealed or filled out a label yet (hint: that's what the customer counters scattered around are for).
OK, now I want one. I'm envisioning putting the voice box in one of the Cthulhu plushies at work...
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