One of the things that I truly truly enjoy about living where I do is that our postman is a very nice guy. Here in "flyover America", he comes to the door, knocks, and hands you your package with a smile...very nice...
Meanwhile, other post offices work hard to maintain the image of "civil service goober", and "government inefficiency"...
Case in point:
In October (the 25th to be exact), I ordered "Zombie-A-G0-G0" from Monomer Games.
Monomer did a great job and got the order processed and sent out ASAP.
And there, things went wrong...
So I waited and waited...Finally around a month later, I contacted them, and asked "Where's my order?"...They checked and the USPS showed on it's system "delivered".
Uhhh...no...It wasn't...
So they went back and double checked...sure enough...USPS says "It's been delivered..."
I let them know "Nope".
So they went to check the Main Post Office.
After about half an hour of their clerks searching...Lo and behold...my package is sitting on a shelf in the backroom, (where it's been for the last month). I guess "Delivered" means "Getting to the main post office, and NOT to where it's going..."
So they finally send it out...
And it gets here...
Looking like this:
Meanwhile, other post offices work hard to maintain the image of "civil service goober", and "government inefficiency"...
Case in point:
In October (the 25th to be exact), I ordered "Zombie-A-G0-G0" from Monomer Games.
Monomer did a great job and got the order processed and sent out ASAP.
And there, things went wrong...
So I waited and waited...Finally around a month later, I contacted them, and asked "Where's my order?"...They checked and the USPS showed on it's system "delivered".
Uhhh...no...It wasn't...
So they went back and double checked...sure enough...USPS says "It's been delivered..."
I let them know "Nope".
So they went to check the Main Post Office.
After about half an hour of their clerks searching...Lo and behold...my package is sitting on a shelf in the backroom, (where it's been for the last month). I guess "Delivered" means "Getting to the main post office, and NOT to where it's going..."
So they finally send it out...
And it gets here...
Looking like this:
Wow...Seems like someone was either curious as to what I was ordering, or was just having a bad day...Maybe they were told that they actually had to do their job?...
Ummm....what part of "DO NOT BEND!" don't you seem to understand???
Yes...here's the back with the mailing label, showing that it wasn't just an envelope that I picked up and did this to, to rag on USPS.To tell you the truth, I've always had problems with the Las Vegas Post Offices. They "lose" letters, don't deliver packages and then mark "no one at home, etc.." So in a way, this is nothing new for me, but it also reminds me of the better quality I have in postal people here.
Like I said, I have NOTHING to say wrong about Monomer Games...They did a GREAT job getting it out, and I am very pleased at the product. I'll be writing up a review of "Zombie-A-G0-G0" in a bit and playing a few games of it to see how it goes. I'm looking forward to it, and more of their products...
But not looking forward to the Las Vegas USPS system...
Comments are appreciated...
