USPS closing Brooklyn locations

There should be a way to protest this. I'll try digging around

just me wrote: actually the USPS is shutting down a lot of things...jobs, etc.
did most of you know that north of union is actually 11217 and south of union is 11215? i don't think it matters much if the 7th ave office is servicing 11215 or 11217 one of them is closing and since 9th st can cover more of the PPW group i'm guessing that's the one that's going while 7th ave will continue to cover 11215 and 11217.
did this make any sense to anyone?

I don't think the 7th ave office is servicing anyone, as anyone who's been there lately for any reason can attest to.

Although it sucks to lose a post office, we can at least take some consolation in the knowledge that some of those "workers" will lose their jobs. :x

Carnivore wrote:
I don't think the 7th ave office is servicing anyone, as anyone who's been there lately for any reason can attest to.

amen to that...I've needed stamps for a couple of weeks and have tried to go to the 7th ave post office 3x...the line was out the door all 3 times, at different times of day. I gave up and ordered the stamps online. And this time I ordered enough to hopefully not have to deal with the post office for a year or two ;-)

squindar wrote: [quote=Carnivore]
I don't think the 7th ave office is servicing anyone, as anyone who's been there lately for any reason can attest to.

amen to that...I've needed stamps for a couple of weeks and have tried to go to the 7th ave post office 3x...the line was out the door all 3 times, at different times of day. I gave up and ordered the stamps online. And this time I ordered enough to hopefully not have to deal with the post office for a year or two ;-)

Yes and Yes to the above. And the line out the door was for a 'normal' business day. It's a Horror Show Deluxe from December 1st onward. How can the USPS close such busy facilities? What they need is more of those automated machines like they have on 9th Street.

The 7th ave stamp store is also the ugliest storefront on the avenue. There is really no point it is there except to prolong the payroll of the civil servants that "work" there.

You can buy stamps from a machine and ship (postal too) from the Park Slope Copy Shop Center.

new2hood wrote: Why they can't strike up a retail partnership w/somebody (DR, Rite Aid, Ace Hardware, ANYBODY) to house these units in non- Post Office locations?

great idea!

postal employees, esp. those in the branches, have great benefits and pretty easy jobs, comparatively. Given the atrocious attitude of every single employee I've ever encountered in the 9th St. station and the piss-poor way they do their jobs, I have a very hard time mustering up empathy for the postal union members.

prezst wrote: i'm having a hard time understanding why you would want anyone to lose their job, especially people who do not choose the conditions under which they have to work. if you think it's oppressive standing in line, just think of how-much of a horror it has to be behind the counter. you should be directing your anger at the postal service, and whoever runs this contract station, rather than the people who need this job to survive.

I knew that comment was coming eventually.

When I was younger and worked a menial job, I worked my ass off. It was stupid and boring, but I was determined to be better at it than anyone else. I have absolutely no patience or sympathy for someone who has a solid paying job with good benefits yet seems to think that their only obligation is to show up. People who show up to work and don't expect to work don't deserve their jobs. A 10 year-old could do a better job of working the postal window than the troglodytes they have in that office. It's maddening. And the mail carriers are even worse. Having lived all over New York through the years, the local postal service is the absolute worst I have ever experienced. I take care of almost all my bills and banking online now, and get everything shipped UPS or FEDEX (and ship everything UPS), so that I don't have to deal with them. So yeah, I won't be sorry if these people have to find other work. They should take a lesson from the awesome and professional staff at the UPS store on Flatbush.

new2hood wrote: FYI...Brooklyn Paper reports PS/WS are not losing their crappy post offices. Mail away.

great! the WT post office is NOT crappy. It's not full service (no PO boxes, package pickup, etc.), but the lines are never long and the people are generally pleasant. Going to the PO there has never been a nightmare in 12 years that I've been going there.

I will admit that I too go to the WT PO, rather than 7th Ave or (GOD FORBIT) 9th street. But, it still feels as if I've rolled back into 1976--long lines, no automation to speed things along (for gods sake, people, give us a machine!), and just general inefficiency.

The self-serve stamp machines in post offices are also disappearing. I've heard it's because the money that's been inserted collects in the machines and isn't removed for days. The government loses interest when the money isn't deposited. So screw convenience.