Excellent, I love it when a pompus ass is put in his place and everyone but
him is laughing!!!!!
Safety Fast!!
Ross Overcash, 74B, NAMGBR 2-1172, Ayer, MA
http://www.tiac.net/users/jroverca/index.htm
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of MGMagnette@aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 1998 9:13 PM
> To: mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: wuz: Postage to BMIHT.. Lost all MG meaning
>
>
> One of the more fun things about this MG list is the clash of cultures
> between the UK and the US. The last beer thread was evidence of
> this. Now
> it's postal service... why you need your mail twice a day? Anyway...
> The United States Postal Service, despite having one of the
> lowest delivery
> rates anywhere in the world (32 cents for a letter), also has an extremely
> complicated rate structure. It not only irks postal employees to
> some extent,
> it can really confuse the customer. It can also be used by us postal
> employees to bother the hell out of people we dont' like, and
> relieve stress.
> Keeps us from going postal you know.
> Reminds me of one day I was damn ready to go postal. This
> known pompus ass
> hands me a box. He's been in our grocery store/post office
> before and I did
> NOT like him. I tell him the postage is $5.00, a perfectly valid rate.
> He's a big tall guy, maybe 45-50, 250+lbs. I'm about 5'10", 155lbs and
> barely look 20. In a bellowing voice, snotty, arrogant voice he
> bellows out
> that it cannot possibly cost $5.00, it only had $2.44 postage on
> it when he
> recieved it. Before I could get a word in edgewise that $5.00
> was the default
> first-class rate and that there were lower rates, he started bellowing on
> about how over charging someone for postage was "A VERY SERIOUS
> OFFENSE". I
> just looked at him and he began to repeat himself. Detecting
> just a hint of
> effrontery in his voice I decide to be a spiteful little ass.
> "Well sir if you care to specify a different rate--" I begin.
> "Third-Class" he blurts.
> "I'm sorry sir, third class was discontinued last year" which is sorta
> true, it's name was just changed.
> "Cheapest rate then" he blasts, fuming that I've decided to give him a
> hard time.
> "Your options, sir, are Standard A, Standard B, Special
> Standard, Library,
> or Free-Matter For the Blind. Are you blind, because if you are
> then sending
> this package will be very inexpensive?"
> This might not be as exciting in text as it was in a crowded
> supermarket.
> Everyone had quite a smirk on thier faces.
> "No, I am not blind."
> "Are you a library?"
> "What do I look like to you kid?" he asks.
> "I have no idea what your profession is, nor your wifes, you might very
> well be a librarian. If you are not blind, nor a librarian, your
> only choices
> cheaper that what I said before are Standard A, Standard B, and Special
> Standard." Pushing a button on the scale I say, "It would be
> $1.24 Special
> Standard."
> "Then send it Special Standard"
> "Hold on now, sir, it isn't that easy. Is this a book, periodical, or
> other bound matter?"
> "No, it's not a book or whatever"
> "Well as much as I would like you to send it this way, I have
> to inform
> you it would be a VERY SERIOUS OFFENSE to send anything other than bound
> matter as special standard. Nearly as great an offense as overcharging
> someone for postage."
> "Listen kid, what is the closest thing to third class?"
> "Standard A is the single piece rate for individuals who are
> not a business
> that replaced third class but it is only for things like seeds,
> 16mm film or
> narrower and textiles. Does this package contain any seeds?"
> When I start
> shaking the box listening for seeds the line of people are
> audibly laughing.
> "ITS A FRIGGAN SHIRT THAT DOESN'T FIT", and his is obviously
> frustrated.
> "AH, you should have said that, textile, Standard A, $2.55... NEXT?"
>
> I felt like I was in a Monty Python sketch because he fell into
> nearly every
> trap I'd laid.
>
> John
>
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