[Dx-qsl] Where's Canada Again?

[Ken Scheper]

I don't think the USPO branches have a choice whether they want to order 
some product of theirs or not.  I've beaten them twice on house delivery, 
where they want to centralize for our neighborhood.  It's all in the regs, 
they just had to go to the next paragraph.  Have them give you chapter and 
verse of where they don't have to supply you what you request.  I might also 
find out who the area postmaster is, and drop him a friendly line.  Sounds 
like a supervisory pain in the *** is calling the shots.  These are the lazy 
SOB's that need to go.

I would complain BIG TIME if you can't get what you need.  Who pays for 
their "services"?

Let me know what happens...GL!!!
73
Ken
WA8JOC



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From: "ALAN ZACK" <k7acz at cox.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 20:47
To: "'Ron Notarius W3WN'" <wn3vaw at verizon.net>; <DX-QSL at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Where's Canada Again?

> No, I think they are somewhere between the UK and France, maybe one of 
> those
> little islands in the English Channel. That is why everything you buy in
> Canada is written in English on one side and French on the other side.
>
> Seriously, if she had stamps for Mexico at 79 cents I would have just 
> gotten
> those. The postage to Canada is 75 cents so you would have only overpaid 4
> cents per envelope. The one and only APC machine in my Main P.O. lobby is
> always busy starting this time of the year and what makes it worse is that
> people don't know how to use the thing. When a line forms they send a P.O.
> employee to the lobby to operate the machine. People just hand over their
> debit or credit card and tell the person what they want to do. I 
> complained
> that before they installed the APC machine they had vending machines and 
> you
> could just stick coins or bills into the slot and select what you wanted.
> You want a booklet of 1st class domestic stamps? No problem. You want just
> one stamp? No problem? You want a half sheet (10 stamps) of Intl Air mail
> stamps? No problem? You want a stamp for Canada or Mexico? No problem. 
> Just
> push the button for what you want and out it comes. So they replaced the
> vending machine with the APC. You want 1 stamp for a letter to Canada. No
> can do, there is a minimum purchase requirement. You want a sheet of 98 
> cent
> Intl Air Mail stamps? No can do. You can only order 5 at a time and wait
> while the machine whirls and grinds away as it prints your postage. Not 
> real
> stamps but little metered stickers. In the meantime the people behind you
> are giving you dirty looks as you are standing there waiting for the 
> machine
> to complete printing the stamps thinking you don't know what you are doing
> and just staring and the screen trying to figure out what to do next.
>
> You can always use their online mail order system. I tried that for IRC's 
> a
> couple of months ago. My main P.O. refuses to order IRC's. They won't let 
> me
> pay in advance to order them for me and won't order them for regular 
> stock.
> So I go to the Airport P.O. which "normally" stocks them. But they ran out
> too so I ordered 10 online just to see how it works. Well I got 10 IRC's 
> in
> a big envelope. Inside were 10 individual sealed plastic envelopes with 
> each
> IRC sandwiched in the plastic bag between two pieces of cardboard. You 
> would
> have thought they were sending precious pieces of art instead of IRC's. I
> normally buy IRC's from the various QSL Mgrs that post them for sale from
> time to time but just wanted to try the P.O. mail order system.
>
> GL! & 73, K7ACZ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of Ron Notarius W3WN
> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 8:58 AM
> To: DX-QSL at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Dx-qsl] Where's Canada Again?
>
> Your chuckle for the day:
>
> Did you know that Canada is overseas, probably in Europe?
>
> That's what I got told at the post office today, when I asked for some
> Canadian air mail stamps.
>
> I know, I know. and it was a branch office inside a mall, not a "real" 
> one.
> And the clerk looked like she was 21 and bored out of her mind (I
> interrupted her romance novel... and I wish I was kidding about that). 
> Her
> chart allegedly only showed Mexico and Overseas, and she's CERTAIN that
> Canada is in Europe near Turkey or the Middle East "or something."
>
> *sigh*
>
> Just have to go get the stamps at the 24 hour machine in the lobby instead
> of fighting the crowd.  So much for trying to save some time, hassle and
> aggravation.
>
> 73, ron w3wn
>
>
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