@kimberleys_attic wrote:
Oh yes, and my local post office won't scan acceptance now.
Seems like I've been seeing that said here more often recently. I can't imagine why they won't do it (besides the fact that it's supposedly expected of them by the head office in Washington). Fortunately both my home PO and those in downtown Chicago do it as a matter of routine. Well, the Chicago ones are kind of unreliable when it comes to packages put in a drop box, presumably because whoever's emptying the box has either forgotten their scanner or misplaced it and doesn't know where it is (apparently there's a communal handheld scanner behind the front counter for use by all), but when packages are brought to the counter, scans are done promptly at the POS terminal and I'm on my way.
In fact, last week I was in line with a package behind a woman carrying a stuffed shopping bag, which I slowly came to realize was not full of shopping but packages to mail. Oh, no... looked to be about seven packages in there... only one desk clerk working at the moment... but I could see an on-line eBay shipping label on the top package, so if the others have their labels as well, then maybe this won't be so bad... I knew the USPS clerk, and she was one of the unflappable ones who sit on an elevated swivel chair behind the counter and have everything within reach...
Finally the woman's turn came up at the counter, she plonked her shopping bag up there, and started lifting out packages. The clerk took them in stride... *beep*, next... *beep*, next... *beep*, next... it was a total breeze. It took the woman longer to lift each package out of her shopping bag than it took the clerk to do the Acceptance scan. I mentally counted off seven beeps, watching the clock on the back wall, and the woman was done, with receipt in hand, in roughly 70 seconds. I had mine Accepted in less than 10.
Bottom line: I have no idea why some offices are so dead-set against scanning packages. What are they doing with all those seconds they're saving?
