Sixth Avenue Mail Station

i have been using this facility for more than 10 years & have gone through 2 owners & i have never been disappointed with the service provided by either one of them! if you are going there to mail packages or to purchase postage to mail off an item or to purchase anything that is available there. you must be aware that this is a for profit business & there will be a nominal mark up on what you buy! if you do not want to pay for the convenience & the time you save then go to the post office or drive to another location & stand in line for what you need! it’s that simple! people complain about the prices & never consider that this place has to pay rent, electricity & everything else needed to facilitate business at that location. then if it closes down those same individuals complain that they now have to go else where because that convenient place has closed its doors! i would like some of you to open a business & have people come in & complain about your prices & you are providing them with a service outside of the scope of your business! the mail services offered are for his monthly, quarterly, half year & yearly box paying customers! this is the information age! get informed before you act or commit to something & then complain about it, something you had full control over, later!

How is this spot still in business?!
Well, fools such as myself that thought they need to pay a guy to take 2 photos of you on a Polaroid camera for $ 11 and call them ‘Passport Photos’!
Damnit! I knew i coulda just taken a photo at home and printed it out for 50 cents! Yes, a fool i am!
Sometimes ya gotta take a loss to learn a valuable piece of info, thankfully it was only an $ 11 loss. Just have someone take ya photo, print it out anywhere, just dont pay ANYONE to take a ‘Passport Photo’! A scam, i unfortunately fell for! I think the last one cost me $ 40 playin 3 card monty on Fordham Rd in the BX back in ’98!

ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE SERVICE!
I WOULD GIVE 0 STARS!!!
I work downtown and I usually don’t have time to go to the post office back around my house because of my schedule.
Any who, I came to here yesterday on my lunch to ask questions about mailing a package because my cousin’s birthday is Sunday and I wanted to mail her a box with earrings, etc. Well this guy tells me that it will be $ 11.00 to mail off, not including the box. I said okay that is reasonable I guess.
So next day I bring everything again and I have everything ready to mail off. One of my co workers had a pre-​paid postage letter already and gave it to me to use so I wouldn’t have to pay postage. I walk in and as everything is getting placed in the little box I ask him «Can I stick this envelope with pre-​paid postage to mail the package off» … at first he said yes but I guess he didn’t quite understand me.
So I say okay, since I don’t have to pay for postage how much will the box be alone. This guy raises his voice and says «NO, If you ARE BUYING THE BOX AND MAILING FROM HERE YOU HAVE TO BUY POSTAGE FROM US, We DON’T MAIL THINGS IF YOU DON’T BUY FROM US». And before he had said all of that a lady just dropped a package and a letter in a box with him and said «Is it okay if I drop mail off for delivery here» He said «Yes»…
What the heck. Long story short, I felt he was way over priced with everything and I decided to just have my stuff mail from the US post Office… He yelled at me and said I wasted his time! and he started taking my things out of the box and tossing them on the counter. What the hell dude! Learn some customer service and manners!!!
I was so nice to him until he started yelling at me… And keep in mind I was there for less than ten minutes!!! and when I pass by there I usually see him just standing against the wall «people watching» outside the business.
That place needs to get shut down… Ridiculous…

If you are on this side of town the mail station is closer than walking to the post office on 9^th or the USPS location at Horton plaza.
They have a couple quick grab items like greeting cards, stamps, stickers, etc but some of it has been sitting there for awhile. Aka dusty…
Service is okay. The guy can be nice depending on how nice the customers have been to him. He is very tit for tat. If you are not buying postage for your package and just dropping it off he charges $ 2. Not cool.

Just got ripped off here. I was in a rush to mail some packages and get some stamps for my Christmas cards. Asked for 20 stamps and was told $ 11. Stamped the few in my hand and dropped them off. Then I left before realising I’d just paid $ 0.55 per stamp, when the current rate is $ 0.45.
That’s a 22% upcharge! Even if they wanted to tack on a convenience fee, that’s ridiculous!

The continued existence of this store is an ongoing mystery to me. It’s like a block down the street from a huge FedEx/Kinko’s and doesn’t seem to offer anything that you couldn’t get at the Fed Ex, but there it is. I often wonder how one gets into the independent mail store business. Seems like an odd avocation.