[Dx-qsl] Where's Canada Again?

Mon Nov 29 02:32:28 EST 2010

I always have to take a copy of their own International Mail Manual 
with me with the relevant parts highlighted.  I always take two or 
three extra copies so they can take one to their boss to make it look 
like they found it.

Dick

At 10:00 PM 11/28/2010, Ken Scheper wrote:
 >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
 >
 >
 >
 >--------------------------------------------------
 >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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