My favorite USPS office
Posted on September 22, 2007
Second or third time I write about the USPS. Must be important, Yes it is, it is the lifeline from here all the way to my customer, so yes, the Postal Service is important to me. And you know what ? I should, any customer should be important to them, but this is not always the feeling you get from them. And it annoys me to be asked those seven famous questions like :-
-Do you want to paid credit card or check ?
-Would you like any cash back ?
-Do you need any stamps ?
Bla bla bla
_Anything else ?….
YES: DON’T MAKE ME QUEUE UP FOR 30 MINUTES AND IF I WANT SOMETHING ELSE, I WILL TELL YOU. RIGHT NOW I WANT TO GO OUT OF HERE, ILLICO PRESTO. I LOST ENOUGH TIME ALREADY.
The Mililani Post Office , here on Oahu, is the worst. I saw that clerk spending exactly 15 minutes with a lady who wanted a special $ 0.25 cents stamp.. She must have liked him or vice versa, but anyway speak about profitability….
The time it takes one to be served at the Mililani Post Office is sufficient for anybody to drive down to the Airport post office where the service is highly professional, fast, and always courteous. I really like those guys and ladies down there, they are always smiling, helpful, they may ask the stupid seven questions, but in fast sequence without expecting any answers, in fact they try to do their job without making you loose patience and time. And most of all none of the clerks there is trying to show off to ladies…….
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Wooden base for canoe model
Posted on September 10, 2007
Does it ever happen to you that you have to make an particular element needed to finish and artwork or piece of furniture but you hate to do that piece ? You also know that you have no choice in the matter, you have to do the piece if you want to finish the “project”.
This is what I had to do today, and believe me, I always need some kind of mental stimulation to carry on, so what I do, is to put the radio dial on some kind of rock music and beat the crap out of the wood in terms of cutting or sanding, which makes me forget about the situation I am in. Just do it, period.
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Packing and shipping
Posted on September 7, 2007
I take very little pleasure in having to admit that for my first posting on this blog I want to talk about what a bother it is to pack and ship canoe models. I cannot understand that I have all the patience in the world to make ship models but so very little when it comes to pack them. Now that all is said and done, now that the canoe model looks beautiful and making its maker proud of it, I have to spend hours building those stupid wooden crates and stand in line at the Mililani post office , behind 20 people who will be asked the customary 7 questions of whether they need stamps or want to pay with credit card, and most of them not yet having any idea about how they want the USPS to carry their parcel to their destination and what kind of forms need to be filled in first. Ever having had to line up at the Mililani post office ?…You would think somebody is going to complain for the lack of clerks there…Anyway, I have a choice, it is either the USPS with its waiting line or UPS with its fast service and much higher cost…Packing sucks.
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