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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 457851" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Some of this about the length of time it takes to get something through the mail is due to their goofy new routing system. Makes no sense to me at all! For example, I live in Tennessee and I can get a card or even a package from my daughter in South Carolina in two days! But if I try to mail something to my son thirty miles away, it takes a week! I live in a very small town about halfway between Nashville and Memphis but closer to Nashville. My son lives in another little town thirty miles west of me. In their infinite wisdom they have decided that no mail will go out directly from my town or my son's town. Anything mailed in our local post office goes all the way to Nashville first to be processed. Even if you're mailing it to someone else in our own town! Even our water bills from city hall a block away go all the way to Nashville first, then are sent back here to be delivered! And if I try to mail something to my son thirty miles away, it first goes east all the way to Nashville for processing. Then Nashville sends it west all the way to Memphis (a two hour drive west of where my son lives). Then the Memphis post office sends it back east to the town where my son lives! (That all makes sense if you see it on a map). So the little birthday card I sent him was transported <u>424 miles</u> at tax payers expense to end up 30 miles from where I mailed it! And why did they make all these changes? "To save money", of course! Would that make sense to anybody? It's no wonder that the post office is going broke! Actually I've been PO'd at the post office ever since they removed all the stamp machines from the lobby and had the nerve to put up those big signs that said,'F<u>OR YOUR CONVENIENCE</u>, THE STAMP MACHINES ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE"!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 457851, member: 1883"] Some of this about the length of time it takes to get something through the mail is due to their goofy new routing system. Makes no sense to me at all! For example, I live in Tennessee and I can get a card or even a package from my daughter in South Carolina in two days! But if I try to mail something to my son thirty miles away, it takes a week! I live in a very small town about halfway between Nashville and Memphis but closer to Nashville. My son lives in another little town thirty miles west of me. In their infinite wisdom they have decided that no mail will go out directly from my town or my son's town. Anything mailed in our local post office goes all the way to Nashville first to be processed. Even if you're mailing it to someone else in our own town! Even our water bills from city hall a block away go all the way to Nashville first, then are sent back here to be delivered! And if I try to mail something to my son thirty miles away, it first goes east all the way to Nashville for processing. Then Nashville sends it west all the way to Memphis (a two hour drive west of where my son lives). Then the Memphis post office sends it back east to the town where my son lives! (That all makes sense if you see it on a map). So the little birthday card I sent him was transported [U]424 miles[/U] at tax payers expense to end up 30 miles from where I mailed it! And why did they make all these changes? "To save money", of course! Would that make sense to anybody? It's no wonder that the post office is going broke! Actually I've been PO'd at the post office ever since they removed all the stamp machines from the lobby and had the nerve to put up those big signs that said,'F[U]OR YOUR CONVENIENCE[/U], THE STAMP MACHINES ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE"!!! [/QUOTE]
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