US Post Office

«You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.»
Obi Wan wasn’t referring to Mos Eisley. Obi Wan was referring to the USPS, and this location in particular.
It is no new and revealing fact that USPS is on Comcast-​level with Customer Service. Their employees are overpaid and under motivated, usually cultivated from the gouch of society. The business acts as both a government agency and a private entity, reaping the benefits of both while having the accountability of neither. In the hierarchy of postal services, product delivery and overall logistics USPS takes the cake as the absolute worst.
It should also be of no surprise that because of this behavior, the USPS in August reported a loss of over $ 2,000,000,000.00 in the span of 3 months. Give yourself a moment to let that sink in. Because if their inflated salaries, benefits, and overall lack of giving two-​shits about managing their employees or their reputation, they’re circling the drain.
The unfortunate truth is the alternatives are not much better. UPS is the best of the bunch, with Fedex basically being latched to USPS’s underbelly, feeding off of them like a parasite. USPS has a monopoly on the nationwide courier services, and much like Comcast I eagerly await the day of reckoning. Google fiber has Comcast on its heels in every market which it has expanded to, and I have no doubt corporations like USPS will suffer the same fate once a suitable competitor rises to the challenge.
All of this brings me to my review today. I selected this location because it’s a sort of USPS hub of my area. After seven (7) phone calls to different numbers, the 2 day package I ordered and shipped on the 13^th still hasn’t arrived on the 24^th. My ticket opened with USPS was closed without a call or an email. I am unable to open a new ticket because of that. My only answered call by a real life human was to the Temple location. And as cold as the Grinch’s idol, the man told me I was shit out of luck.
I’d like to end this review similar to how I started it. A quote, from a very appropriate Christmas movie:
Clark: «Hey! If any of you are looking for any last-​minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I’d like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-​good, rotten, four-​flushing, low-​life, snake-​licking, dirt-​eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-​sucking, dog-​kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-​ass, bug-​eyed, stiff-​legged, spotty-​lipped, worm-​headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where’s the Tylenol?»
I could say much of the same about the USPS, Clark. Merry Christmas!