There is nothing worse than going to the post office and standing in line...

[WCGreen]

Really, there is nothing else in this world that is worse than standing on line at the Post Office.

Seriously....

For those of you who haven't seen that commercial for on-line postage, that is what they say.

Not that it is annoying to schlep over to the Post Office in the middle of the day.

Nope, there is nothing worse, nothing, do you hear me, than going to the muther fucking post office in the middle of the day..........

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. lol

[WingDinger]

2. Every product comm. shows someone cringing and wincing over spilt milk.

[Icicle]

3. DMV

The line at the Department of Motor Vehicles is worse than the line at the post office, hands down!

[murielm99]

7. Try any grocery store.

They have twelve checkout lanes and only one or two of them open. People are in line, backed up all over the place, no matter what time you get there. That is annoying.

[one_voice]

18. Ain't that the truth....

I used to love my grocery store, lines were always short and quick. Not anymore, like you said 2 registers open lines down the aisle.

The dollar store is worse. I go there to get a few things, and on Saturday of all days they'll have one register open. People just walk out, you'll be in line 45 minutes. Ridiculous!

[amandabeech]

33. You can buy stamps at my grocery store.

It beats standing in a long line twice.

[Kellerfeller]

31. You beat me to it

2 hours+ last time I was there

[limpyhobbler]

4. I love going to the post office to see all the people.

[FSogol]

11. Same here. I'm secretly in love in our Postmistress!

Sometimes I buy stamps twice in one day.

[Poiuyt]

27. Postmistress -- you make that sound so dirty!

I love it!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. That one always irritates me.

Dude stands there with this really serious look and says "There's nothing worse than going to the post office and standing in line."

Yes, I know, there's always hyperbole in advertising, but really? Nothing worse? Buy your stamps online because if you don't, you'll be boiled in oil, or come down with the bubonic plague, or be attacked by rabid wolverines? No, something much, much worse! You'll have to wait in line at the post office! NOOOOO!!!

[banned from Kos]

6. They took the stamp vending machines out of the offices near me!

20-30 people in line with packages during XMas so I didn't mail any cards.

[eppur_se_muova]

36. All the coin/bill-operated machines have been replaced by ...

machines that take ONLY credit cards.

[benld74]

8. Standing in line at the DMV the day BEFORE your plates expire! Beats the post office ANY DAY

[Gold Metal Flake]

9. When the Post Offices are gone...

...and the people in rural areas have no mail, and anyone who wants to send a letter will have to stand in line at the overcrowded Fedex or UPS customer counters or "mailing centers" and glare at the untrained minimum-wage counter persons that quit every few months and pay, oh, $3.25 or so for the "economy" service they used to get for 45 cents to send a check in a letter when they have to, I'm guessing "the Unions" will still be blamed.

[WCGreen]

16. Exactly...

[Gold Metal Flake]

28. And when you live ina rural area, and the nearest "mailing center" is in the next county...

...and your car overheats on the highway, and whatever else when you are the working poor, well, you're fucked.

Government documents, tax documents, plain old cheap basic mail service, a living wage for six or seven townspeople and their families, all gone.

Replaced by jack shit.

Good OP, WCGreen.

[kestrel91316]

10. I have to go there to buy my postcard stamps for reminder cards because they can't see fit to sell

THOSE online.

Effin' half-hour lines.......

[Brother Buzz]

12. There is nothing worse than going to the induction center and standing in line...

Ymmv

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. Not line ... lines ... lots of them

Lines to get shots
Lines to get boots
Lines to get pants
Lines to get a haircut
Lines to get chow
Lines to take a shower
Lines to get bedding
Lines to get nowhere, just to listen to someone yelling.

Probably more. It's been a few decades ...

[Ikonoklast]

13. I go to the Post Office with ten or twelve randomly wrapped packages at least once a week or so

just to argue with the clerk that there is nothing wrong with using used cereal boxes wrapped in newspaper and tied with butcher's string and that they should accept them for mailing.

Then I dispute the weight and cost of postage for each package, fill out the third change of address form that month, and when finally when all said and done ask them if they take Canadian money in payment.


The looks on the faces of the thirty or so people in line behind me always cracks me up.

[Snake Alchemist]

17. ROFL!

I knew you looked familiar.

[Ikonoklast]

22. Hmm...curl your lips into a snarl for me...make your face beet red...now shake your fist in the air.

HEY! I recognize you now!


See you on Thursday!

[Ron Green]

14. About half the replies "got" this OP and about half didn't

at this point. I think that's about par for the course.

[Quantess]

15. It just looks like Lounge Material to me.

The deep thought just was too deep for me.

[unblock]

19. i've told you a MILLION TIMES not to exaggerate!

[Mnemosyne]

25. Well, I told them a brazillion times! n/t

[GoCubsGo]

20. Senior discount day at the grocery store is infinitely worse.

It's crowded. The aisles are blocked by shoppers who park their carts right next to the stand alone displays, so nobody can get by until they make up their minds whether or not to buy whatever they're looking at. (Granted, this is not behavior specific to SDD, or to people of that age group. It is just worse on that day.) Half the shelves are cleaned out, since the weekly sales usually start on this day. And, then you get to stand in line for half an hour at the checkout line. Needless to say, I'm avoid grocery shopping on Wednesdays like the plague.

[surfdog]

21. It's worse in Key West

You can only park in the parking lot at the post office for 15 minutes and then you get towed , the tow truck drivers wait around the corner and clock you , when you go into the post office the line is 20 minutes long

It's turned into a big scandal down here

[Sgent]

24. Its an inconvience

when you go once a month. Its a major cost if you pay someone to go daily and they have to stand in line for 30 minutes to send a package (or more likely), certified mail, etc.

UPS / Fedex start looking a lot cheaper...

[Iggo]

26. Yep. That's what I heard.

Nothing worse.

Nothing.

[Courtesy Flush]

30. My wife has brain cancer

As of Novemerber 2009, when I hear "there's nothing worse than..." It has to be worse than brain cancer.

[Beaverhausen]

32. Very sorry about your wife.

I had a similar thought when I read the OP. 'Gee it must be nice if this is your biggest problem.'

[onethatcares]

34. I bet the creep that wrote that ad copy

never got in a line at the post office in their life.

just like the toyota truck add that has the tundra doing barrel rolls, nope I'll bet a mizzzillion dollars whoever wrote that one never did it either.

and I'd like to thank whoever gave me the Valentine hearts, that's the nicest thing that happened to me today.

edited to add the last sentence.

[ladye156]

37. Worse

I have ovarian cancer. I kind of think that is worse than this idiotic line of dialogue.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

38. I am truly sorry you have this awful disease.

The original post that you're responding to was posted as tongue in cheek. He didn't mean to belittle anyone's real problems.