Tis the season....

....to go postal!

So, at the call center at my company we have something called "peak staffing." Basically, there are more people on the phones during busy times. I know, it's a novel concept. And, apparently, it's one the US Postal Service cannot grasp.

At lunch time, I walked up to the closest post office to buy stamps for Christmas cards (yes friends and family, you will receive your cards in 2006 from me!) and mail a package off to my niece in Wisconsin. Now, this post office is in the midst of office buildings. No one actually *lives* in this area, we just all work here. And we all work sort of standard business hours--which means, everyone has lunch at about the same time. And what do people who work downtown do at lunch time? Run errands.

So, one would think, that this post office--which has virtually no business from 9:00am to 11:00am and then from 1:00pm to 5:00pm--would work their schedule so that the 5 employees there, who normally sit around and play checkers (or something like that) would take lunch at an off-hour so that they all could help customers during the 2 hours that people actually come to the post office. But NO! They send everyone to lunch so that there is only one person there at a time! Yeesh, and they wonder why FedEx is getting all their business.

Okay, enough ranting for now. I'll save my ranting for this weekend when we hit the mall. Oh, isn't December fun?

And, now, words of wisdom:
"I'm glad life isn't like a Christmas song, because if my friends and I were building a snowman and it suddenly came alive when we put a hat on it, I'd probably freak and stab it to death with an icicle.
-Matthew Perry