Comments on: This is Why the Post Office is Going Out of Business

By: Vol-E

Vol-E — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:08:03 +0000

Recently I visited the local P.O. in an attempt to buy 29 cent stamps for postcards. I requested 20, but in the entire building, they could only find four! Almost comical watching the guy wander about and root through various drawers. Mostly sad, though.

By: One Frugal Girl

One Frugal Girl — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:38:41 +0000

I've never heard of leaving the money in the mailbox. I plan to ask my mail carrier about that tomorrow.

I decided to go to the post office, because I wanted to ship the letters out as soon as I applied the postage. Otherwise I definitely would've gone to the grocery store or any place other than the post office. Of course, if leaving money in the mailbox works then I'll use that trick from now on!

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:42:30 +0000

I do what one of your readers say. I leave a envelope in the mail box with a check for the amount of stamps I want. I get stamps the next day or sometimes the same day.

By: House of Sykes

House of Sykes — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:39:21 +0000

We are able to leave an envelope with money in it for a book of stamps, and our mail carrier will leave stamps in our box. You can also buy them at the grocery store if that is more convenient.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:38:02 +0000

I can buy stamps at my bank's ATM.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:04:58 +0000

I know drugstore pharmacies like CVS and Rite Aid sell stamps.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:21:03 +0000

Most major grocery stores sell postage.

By: Cate

Cate — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:59:56 +0000

Personally, I love going out to get the mail each day! We hardly ever have boring mail days...we receive magazines, letters, postcards, freebies, packages, and the like. I would be devastated if the postal service seriously cut down on their services/deliveries.

HOWEVER. Sometimes, they stink. (Like your experience with the stamps). We're lucky to have a great mail carrier now, but for several years we had mail carriers who would clearly just take days off (when nobody on the street got mail, etc). And a couple years ago, we lived in a house that had been converted into two apartments. For some reason, all of the mail carriers were either too lazy or dumb or both to locate our actual mailbox, which wasn't hard to find. They habitually left mail in the doors of the upper apartment, on side stoops where they got rained on, etc. AGH!

By: Andrea @SoOverDebt

Andrea @SoOverDebt — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:56:43 +0000

Not sure if this is still the case, but when I was a kid I used to leave an envelope in the mailbox with money for a book of stamps, and my mailman would leave the stamps in the mailbox.

Things have definitely changed with the post office. My current mailman will do ANYTHING to avoid getting out of his car when I get a package, from tossing the package in my yard to cramming it in the mailbox. One day I pulled the mailbox, post and all, out of the ground trying to remove a package that was clearly too big to fit. He is also too lazy to close the mailbox door, so sometimes my mail gets blown out into the ditch or the road.

Personally, I would be okay with getting mail once or twice a week. Route all packages to UPS or FedEx and let the mailman show up occasionally with my junk mail. Because that's all I get these days.