US Post Office

Only been once. Dropped off a package with prepaid postage and went about my business. Perfectly average and free of drama.

Forget about location, the employees here need to be gagged, bound, and taken to customer service 101! Went here to get my daughters passport and the «woman» there was SO disrespectful and rude !! She acted like how dare you come in there and not know exactly how the passport process works ??? God forbid anyone came there to do regular mail since it was a holiday, they got their heads ripped off! Another customer asked her for her name to complain. I don’t know if she gave her real name (Zara) but whoever her superiors are please do the world a favor and FIRE her! No one should be allowed to speak to anyone like that and even less so when you are in the CS industry !! Horrible

There’s not much to say about this place. Its a post office. The service is slow, which is to say its about average for post offices in general. There’s a good bit of room inside though, and the self-​service machine is conveniently located. The biggest problems with this post office are really not something to do with the PO itself, but the location. Parking in this area is atrocious. Like Lynbrook, Valley Stream seems to think it needs meter parking, which, to me at least, is completely ridiculous. This isn’t Manhattan. Even so, the price of the meters is pretty cheap. You know they’re not fixing roads with your quarters. They’re fixing roads with the rape charges, I mean parking tickets they will throw at you the millisecond your meter expires. Seriously, they will show you no mercy in this town. If only REAL CRIME were handled with such efficiency, this might actually be a safe place to be when the sun goes down. Also, like many other neighborhoods in this area, the streets are plagued with the most bizarre of traffic rules, making a simple exit near impossible. Can’t turn here or there, some streets arbitrarily one way, etc… Not the fault of the PO, but it does make visiting this branch far less desirable.

Love This Post Office… Sometimes I come here to mail out some packages and pay some bills and the lines move real Quick…

While I was in college appx 7 years ago, I was coming here pretty frequently because I was always selling stuff on eBay. Long story short, I received a hand-​written letter in the mail from one of the clerks, professing his love for me – he had stolen my address from one of the packages I sent. I may have spoken a total of 5 words to him in the few months I was frequenting the facility. That was enough to keep me coming back for the next several years until I was sure he didn’t work there anymore. (I couldn’t make this shit up) Besides the love note incident, the VS Post Office sucks on many levels. Most of the clerks are mean and the line is always SO LONG. No idea why it’s so slow when sometimes there are only 2 customers in there. I only go when absolutely necessary.

I think that ever since they overhauled this post office ten (give or take) years ago it’s been an absolute disaster. The layout is HORRIBLE. Instead of a long corridor that can handle lines of, oh, I don’t know, six people, there is a short counter that leads to the entrance. This causes the line to back up into the entrance, and creating all sorts of hell.
The lines here are long most of the time and unbearably so at peak times. Parking sucks too, because the PO doesn’t have it’s own parking lot. Even though traffic on Hawthorne Ave. is one way, it’s still a mess with people trying to squeeze in and double park on the street.
The only saving grace here is that you can use your debit card to enter after hours and buy stamps and weigh postage from an automated kiosk.
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