Canada Post

I will walk 10 – 15 minutes out of my way to go to a different Canada Post location. Coming to this one always is only marginally less depressing than waiting for a root canal.
OK, I’m being a little bit melodramatic. Literally every time I have tried to go to this post office (like today) I gasp when I see how many people are in line. I thought 3 PM on a weekday would avoid the after work rush… nope, 22 people in line. There were 2 clerks working when I arrived and then with the line even longer than it started one of them decided to go on break. Now with one clerk, inevitably there will be a problem… someone is trying to send a fragile, valuable piece of glass to Timbuktu express and hasn’t filled out an insurance form or an express form or even bothered to tape their box shut. The sole clerk then gets to spend 10 minutes on just one customer.
Can you feel my exasperation through this review? And it’s not just like this occasionally, this location is always understaffed and has a crazy line. I used to think the USPS was awful until I saw this.
The one redeeming quality… the staff are *usually* rather polite once you finally get service.
Seriously, walk to the other locations… in the HBC building, at Yonge & Dundas, Yonge & Bloor, etc. It’s not worth the wait.