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Cori Bren's avatar

It’s odd. The post office in our small town is never busy and the people are friendly. Lol I guess we’re lucky.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

I’m moving. Hehe.

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Alisa Kennedy Jones's avatar

This belongs in the Smithsonian right next to the original mailbag and an unopened box of Forever stamps from 1996. I laughed, I wept, I remembered that one time I tried to schedule a pickup and instead triggered an inter-agency turf war. If Kafka and Seinfeld co-wrote a USPS training video, it would read exactly like this. Also—yes to the peanut butter. Always yes to the peanut butter. :)

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Kafka and Seinfeld! 😂😂😂

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Michael Edward's avatar

I see the US postal service adheres to many of the same core tenets that the Australian postal service does. Haha.

A very funny piece. Thank you :)

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Government run…

Thx. 🙏

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Michael Edward's avatar

Exactly! :)

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Paolo Peralta's avatar

Newer motto: teach them mindfulness as they wait. 😂😂😂

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Mark Dolan's avatar

Sounds like someone has had a bad experience or two at the Post Office :)

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Comedy goes to the extreme but yeah. Gov run anything isn’t efficient.

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Wendy Parciak's avatar

haha, reading this just about made me break out in a cold sweat. So many of these things (or very like them) have happened to me! Recently I discovered a pile of wet mail behind our outdoor grill, where it had apparently blown after the mail carrier left it in the breezeway (name is very appropriate) rather than the mailbox.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Oh boy. Hopefully nothing important in the pile.

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Wendy Parciak's avatar

fortunately it was all junk mail.

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Brenda Stepp's avatar

Funny.

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Rebecca J. Gomez's avatar

This cracked me up, even though I have had overall good experiences with the post office, and just bought TWO books of stamps last week. My husband is a letter carrier and his customers LOVE him, maybe because too many of his colleagues were trained using this manual. 😆

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Yay. Glad you appreciated. I probably could have switched out PO for DMV. I have an acquaintance who works at the PO she couldn’t wait to become a postal truck mechanic. Maybe too many grumpy customers? I’ll bet hubby has a few stories.

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Rebecca J. Gomez's avatar

Oh, he has a lot of stories! Maybe he should start a substack!

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Zach Hively's avatar

Huh. This is not my personal experience with the post office at all. Is this because the first time I went in to mail 40 book packages at once, I also took them breakfast burritos so they'd be less irritated at me? (It halfway worked.)

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Perfect. Great idea. You became their favorite customer.

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michael mclaughlin's avatar

As a poor writer, I worked for United States Postal Service for 3 years. Not much humor there. Really. The PO was LOST IN THE PROCESS was my motto. Most of the mail is junk mail. A real, handwritten letter was paraded around the shop like finding the Holy Grail. The few benefits were I could drive badly and not worry about a ticket, and I can now drive a vehicle on the right hand side.

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Donna McArthur's avatar

I howled at always ask them if they need stamps🤣

Imagine if you actually got a job at the PO!! You would have some great stories.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

They’re hiring! Thx, Donna.

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Kimberly Warner's avatar

Hahahaha!!! Why is this all-too-true?!

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

😂😂

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Henny Hiemenz's avatar

I honestly avoid our local PO’s because I cannot stand being in those lines behind old people that take FOR-EVER.

I know, I know, I’m a terrible person.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Not terrible at all. 😂

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Ofifoto's avatar

It's funny because it's true! Excellent post; plenty of attitude, but no stamp required!

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Haha. Love the punn on Post.

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Ofifoto's avatar

I had a whole mail bag full, but the others got wet.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

You're soaking in jokes. hehe.

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Ofifoto's avatar

🤪

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Terry Freedman's avatar

Brilliant. Just about sums up every public service in the UK!

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Wendy McWaffle's avatar

“If you drive a bus, don’t.”

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

🥰

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Gov run anything has me running.

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Terry Freedman's avatar

Cf Reagan's the most frightening sentence ever: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

I’m impressed you can quote Reagan. 👏

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Terry Freedman's avatar

😇

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Norman T. Leonard's avatar

This is hilarious. Fortunately, I don’t have to go to the post office. My wife forbids it. I cannot be trusted with adult responsibilities that fall under the category of paperwork, accounting, or professional correspondence of any kind.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

A cover up? You’re actually really good at those things but pretend otherwise to get out of the scut work. Hehe.

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