Maybe this is why they want to eliminate Saturday service...

I was in the local Post Office the other day, mailing a package. Don't get me wrong...I love my local Post Office. It's very convenient and it's usually quick (unlike the "main" branch up on E Street, which is old, stinky, incredibly slow, and quite like Purgatory, I imagine, but with less interesting people). While there, I witnessed this exchange:

Customer: Is there any way you can check if a package was delivered to my home in Chicago?

Postal Clerk: Chicago the state or Chicago the city?

I swear to god this is true.

I don't know about you, but I think that the knowledge that Chicago is indeed a city in the state of Illinois should be something that's entirely expected of Postal employees.

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[Pam]

Yeah, I am just dreaming of the golden times, when my grandfather was the chief of a little post-office...nowadays your are lucky if the got two different kind of stamps...sigh...