Going Postal: my revenge

[heydooney]

Yesterday I dropped by the post office to pick up postage for my Christmas postcards. I specifically bought postcards because I'm cheap and I know they cost less to mail. I went up to the counter and asked for 75 postcard stamps. "OK, that's 75 28-centers!" the clerk cheerfully replied. I hardly glanced at the total as I swiped my card, got my receipt and ran out to the car where my husband was waiting with the kids.

I got in the car and looked at my receipt. $12.75. Something was not right. I looked at the stamps. I had 75 17-cent ram's head stamps. If I put those on my postcards I'd either have 75 undeliverable postcards jammed in my mail slot when I got home from vacation, or 75 angry friends and relatives who each had to pay eleven cents to get a card from me.

Of course, it was now past closing time so I was stuck with my stamps until morning.

Sleep was fleeting last night. My 10-month-old is trying to cut his second top tooth. The first came in with no problem, but this one is sore and taking forever. It's also causing a stuffy nose and slight fever. Five times I had to get up with him, give him motrin or sit up nursing him upright so he could breathe while he ate. He also tried using my nipple as a teether a few times. This morning, I'm in no mood to be messed with.

At 10 a.m., with no coffee in my system, I gathered the stamps, the receipt, and the fussing child, and headed out.

"Well, we can't take them back. That's our policy."

What? It was YOUR mistake!

What can I do with seventy-five seventeen-cent stamps? I love the new "forever" stamps, I'd really rather not make each letter I mail into a word problem.

Question 12. Danielle needs to mail a letter. Postage is 44 cents. She has stamps that are 17 cents each. How many should she put on the letter, how much would she be overpaying, and is it really worth it to go buy the correct postage to add up to 44 cents? Please show all work.

"We can sell you stamps to make up the difference."

The difference is eleven cents. Does the post office sell eleven-cent stamps? I'll give you two guesses.

So now on EACH postcard, I will have to put not only a return-address label, but a 17-cent stamp, a 10-cent stamp, and a 1-cent stamp.

While holding an inconsolabe, snotty, drooling baby.

Hell if I'm going to let them get away with it. After the address labels print, we're going back down there. And we're going to put three stamps on each of seventy-five postcards at the post office's counter. I might even bring my two-year-old along for fun.

[ReachtotheStars]

Dec. 19, 2009 at 1:03 PM

lol way to get revenge

[southernlamom]

Dec. 19, 2009 at 8:33 PM

LOL suck. Gotta love the PO

[MSugarKane]

Dec. 20, 2009 at 6:32 AM

thats funny when you read it!