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Moving Second Thoughts

by Derek on January 19th, 2012
Moving Second Thoughts

This past week I’ve been taking morning trips to the Post Office with boxes of DVDs or books that I’m shipping to San Diego via media mail because it’s cheaper than having the movers take them. As I lugged the small yet incredibly heavy boxes to the post office I was trying really hard to remember what books were inside of them. I know that I already pruned my bookshelf significantly, but man it’s still a lot of books.

As I was walking I was thinking to myself, that it was time to get a Kindle. I don’t even remember the last book I finished, but I think it’s time for me to stop the collection of books. I know that this move won’t be my last, and that thought especially makes me want to stop buying physical books.

I just realized now that getting free moving boxes won’t be nearly as easy the next time we move. Hmmmmmm…

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Post Office Fail

by Derek on January 16th, 2012
Post Office Fail

When I packed our DVDs and books, there were quite a few boxes of them and the books were by no means light. Then after we got the estimate from the movers we’re hiring, their calculations without the books meant that if we shipped them all media mail then we’d save around $200. Yeah, no small amount.

Last year I shipped several boxes of DVDs to Anna because she was already in San Diego. The first two were very large and when I took them to the post office in Park Slope (first thing in the morning), the woman behind the counter looked at me and asked me how I got there. I was thinking that had I said “by car” then she was prepared to ask me to take them home. She really actually said that she didn’t think they had room for them.

This was also a few weeks before Christmas, which means they were sure to be processing tons of packages. Yet somehow, first thing in the morning they were almost deciding to not take my packages. Seriously WTF?? If they had seriously resisted I would’ve probably said something like “Okay, well I’ll ship it UPS then” and seen how they reacted.

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Thinking About Portals

by Derek on April 19th, 2011
Thinking About Portals

I got the email late afternoon yesterday that my Portal 2 is officially in the mail. West Virginia at last report to be precise. Amazon estimates I’ll have it by Friday which I hope is a gross underestimation. I am now subject to the United States Post Office’s notoriously slow tracking system. In the meantime I managed to not use Reddit at all yesterday, but damn if I wasn’t reloading my RSS reader all the time just for any slight bit of internet junk food my other subscriptions might provide me with.

In other news, to my friends who have me on IM, any links you might want to send to me this week are far less likely to be met with an “Oh yeah I saw this!” So if you want some serious link sending cred, now is the time.

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Tracking Still A Thing

by Derek on March 4th, 2011
Tracking Still A Thing

Truth is this makes perfect sense because my package is being shipped from Nevada so it’s most likely on a truck or something on the way here which means it’s not stopping over at any post office centers along the way.

It’s actually kind of cool that it says there won’t be updates for a while, because otherwise I’d be checking the tracking obsessively during every spare moment I have.

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There’s Always a Line

by Derek on July 1st, 2010
There’s Always a Line

I was at the post office basically after they opened. We had to fill out some labels so we weren’t first in line, probably fourth. There was a couple who was buying stamps for their wedding invitations. I have no idea how long she actually spent deliberating on which stamps to buy but it certainly felt like at least fifteen minutes. I just wanted to rush up and whack them against the bulletproof glass. It was excruciatingly painful to watch, and I could tell the other people in line were also none too pleased. They had of course only two booths open so this tied up the one for a very long time. As usual, I was done with my transaction in less than five minutes.

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…but You Can’t Read This Either

by Derek on February 16th, 2009
…but You Can’t Read This Either

In the post office’s defense this was written in Spanish before written again in English in parentheses. Still, it’s kind of like if when you call an automated telephone service and after saying “para español pulse dos” it said “for spanish, press 2.” What about all the other non-English speakers out there?


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USPS Tracking Disservice

by Derek on May 14th, 2008
USPS Tracking Disservice

USPS packing tracking is by far the most worthless package tracking service in existence. Every single time I have something shipped by USPS, the tracking information never shows up until the package is on my doorstep. If anyone reading this works for the US Postal Service or has a friend who does, please tell me why their system sucks so much.


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Post Office Line Waste

by Derek on January 28th, 2008
Post Office Line Waste

I can actually think of a bunch of reasons someone would mail something from Manhattan to another place in Manhattan, but the idea of waiting in the hell of a post office line is what made me think it was so odd. Though surprisingly this is one time waiting in line at the post office wasn’t entirely painful.


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Automated Post Office Machine

by Derek on December 26th, 2006
Automated Post Office Machine

I don’t know if it’s just because the machines weren’t equipped to do that at that particular moment or if they can just never handle international packages. I would hope it was a temporary thing because I don’t want to think about the computer programmer who had to put in an “international button” and also an explanation about why there’s no further service for international packages into the computer system. Anyway, this is why I prefer to go to shipping places that aren’t the post office but are still capable of shipping by a number of different methods because the lines are usually shorter and you don’t have to deal with stupid crap like this.


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Change is Bad

by Derek on May 18th, 2006
Change is Bad

I did in fact an excessive amount of change in the change pocket of my jeans yesterday. So much that when I wanted to get fifty cents in change I had to reach in, take out some change, then reach in again to get the two quarters. This took far longer than usual, and when I was done giving the cashier her change I didn’t even bother trying to put it all back into the change pocket because I knew that some of it was going to miss the small pouch. I didn’t make any remark aloud about having too much change, but there was a guy right outside of the store asking for change that I just walked by. Like I’ve said before, I don’t give change to people on the street because I know that they’re doing just fine without my donation.


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