US Post Office

This place appears dirty, stuff looks like it’s just chucked wherever … maybe the place is just old.
The customer service was spot on, and they don’t rush you through the line. Nothing more to post, it’s a post office. It’s in a convenient location next to a shopping center, and across from the bank.

Quick and fast, if you catch them when no soliders need their services at the same time you do! I was in and out in two minutes.

It is nice of Fort Lee to have a post office right next to the small PX. I was in AIT and needed to mail home some clothes that I never used. And so for my last three weekends at Fort Lee, I paid separate visits to this post office to package my clothing home and ship it to Washington. On all three occasions, the result was success, although I did pay more than I would have liked to.
This place is fairly small and seemingly always busy, yet the line appears to move at a rapid pace even without only two or so people staffed at the counter. There is a table in the back where you can set your box down as you assemble it. If you’re lucky, maybe somebody before you has already purchased tape and left it on the table for you to use for free. Otherwise, you’d have to pay the $ 3.99 or whatever it is to buy a roll of tape that you’ll probably only ever use once.
Reo is a nice guy who works there; he says he’s a former Marine and he asks customers the question «What’s the difference between Army tanks and Marine tanks?» The answer is «Army tanks have backup lights,» and it supposedly means that the Army tanks are retreating. I don’t get it, but he’s a cool dude who taught me that ballpoint pens are great for tearing apart tape. He also told me weird things like making the return address some location close to the shipping address so that it at least has a backup location to go to in case the package is shipped back and I’m already gone from Fort Lee. Overall, it’s just your average post office on a military installation.

Like most post offices on military installations, they close even earlier than «normal» post offices. They also do not have an automated postal center. Drives me insane that I had to walk FROM the post office to the px to buy stamps! Is it too difficult to put a stamp machine (like most post offices) in the lobby? I guess so!

If it was UPS, Fed Ex, DHL, etc. this place would get one star. The service is slow, surly, and acts like you’ve asked them to swim the Atlantic. But it’s the USPS and that’s par for the course.