I wish the Postal Service a swifter demise...
Can someone please explain the following to me:
Yesterday, I mailed off a 9x12 stamped envelope containing an application and a copy of my resume. It was correctly addressed and, obviously, included my return address. Well, today...it was returned. It was returned asking for an additional, oh, let's see...23 CENTS. Now, in order to re-mail this stupid thing, I have had to place another 37 CENT stamp on the envelope, for a total now of 74 CENTS. It does not bother me that I have had to add additional postage. Do you know what bothers me?
WHERE IN THE NAME OF OTHER PEOPLE'S GODS DID THEY GET 23 CENTS? WHAT KIND OF ARBITRARY DOUGLAS ADAMS NUMBER IS THAT? As far as I know, there is no 60 CENT stamp providing the amount I Oh So OBVIOUSLY needed on the envelope. And I certainly cannot purchase a 23 CENT stamp as the 37 CENT stamp is now the lowest denomination of
postal charges (as far as I know. Please, correct me if I'm wrong). Why in the hell am I GIVING the Post Office 14 extra cents?
IT MAKES NO SENSE!
NO PUN INTENDED!
PUNS ARE AN EXTRA 14 CENTS!!!!!
The money does not bother me as an individual. It's cents. But it should bother US as a collective. If they do this to just 10, 000 people in one day (and that is NOT a high number statistcally speaking), they have made 140,000 F*@&ing dollars. Multiply that by 300 (the approximate number of days in the year the mail runs) and they have turned a PROFIT of 42,000,000 MILLION DOLLARS!!!!! SWEET ZOMBIE CHRIST!!!!
Plus, now I get to look like a putz and send this marked up, shame-covered envelope to this company because I don't want to waste the FIRST stamp! Damn!
And finally, the icing on le cake: I sent ANOTHER 9x12 envelope with my resume AND a CD with samples of my artwork early LAST WEEK. It has not been returned! Where the hell is it?!!! Where is my resume sitting right now?!!!!
IN SOME PILE MARKED: NEEDS 14 CENTS, NO DOUBT!!!!
DAMN!
I wish the postal service a swifter demise. Onward into E-Commerce and THE WORLD OF TOMORROW!!
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Epilogue (3 Hours & 2 comments Later)
Well... Apparently, I'm just a big, fat moron. I hope I am not found starved and frozen in the street because of my complete lack of applicable real-world experience and postal naivete.
And, just to defend myself further: We are talking about a grand total of 4 sheets of frakkin' paper. I can dig the one with the CD, it's "heavy". But if 37 cents won't cover 4 sheets of frakkin' paper, you can bite my shiny, metal ass.
Yesterday, I mailed off a 9x12 stamped envelope containing an application and a copy of my resume. It was correctly addressed and, obviously, included my return address. Well, today...it was returned. It was returned asking for an additional, oh, let's see...23 CENTS. Now, in order to re-mail this stupid thing, I have had to place another 37 CENT stamp on the envelope, for a total now of 74 CENTS. It does not bother me that I have had to add additional postage. Do you know what bothers me?
WHERE IN THE NAME OF OTHER PEOPLE'S GODS DID THEY GET 23 CENTS? WHAT KIND OF ARBITRARY DOUGLAS ADAMS NUMBER IS THAT? As far as I know, there is no 60 CENT stamp providing the amount I Oh So OBVIOUSLY needed on the envelope. And I certainly cannot purchase a 23 CENT stamp as the 37 CENT stamp is now the lowest denomination of
postal charges (as far as I know. Please, correct me if I'm wrong). Why in the hell am I GIVING the Post Office 14 extra cents?
IT MAKES NO SENSE!
NO PUN INTENDED!
PUNS ARE AN EXTRA 14 CENTS!!!!!
The money does not bother me as an individual. It's cents. But it should bother US as a collective. If they do this to just 10, 000 people in one day (and that is NOT a high number statistcally speaking), they have made 140,000 F*@&ing dollars. Multiply that by 300 (the approximate number of days in the year the mail runs) and they have turned a PROFIT of 42,000,000 MILLION DOLLARS!!!!! SWEET ZOMBIE CHRIST!!!!
Plus, now I get to look like a putz and send this marked up, shame-covered envelope to this company because I don't want to waste the FIRST stamp! Damn!
And finally, the icing on le cake: I sent ANOTHER 9x12 envelope with my resume AND a CD with samples of my artwork early LAST WEEK. It has not been returned! Where the hell is it?!!! Where is my resume sitting right now?!!!!
IN SOME PILE MARKED: NEEDS 14 CENTS, NO DOUBT!!!!
DAMN!
I wish the postal service a swifter demise. Onward into E-Commerce and THE WORLD OF TOMORROW!!
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Epilogue (3 Hours & 2 comments Later)
Well... Apparently, I'm just a big, fat moron. I hope I am not found starved and frozen in the street because of my complete lack of applicable real-world experience and postal naivete.
And, just to defend myself further: We are talking about a grand total of 4 sheets of frakkin' paper. I can dig the one with the CD, it's "heavy". But if 37 cents won't cover 4 sheets of frakkin' paper, you can bite my shiny, metal ass.
posted by Sean Corley at 5:19 PM
2 Comments:
Postage rates are 37 cents for the first ounce, and 23 cents for each additional ounce. Big envelopes, no matter what the real weight of the contents always require the second 23 cents. I, too, am too lazy to buy that stamp, so have to put 2 37 centers on there. There are 23 cent stamps and lots of other strange demonimations. You'd be surprised.
You are NOT big and fat.
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