I went to the Post Office yesterday to drop fifty-some packages chock full of the Love and Capes wedding issue to the guests on the cover. (Check out my box o' envelopes here.) There were a couple of difficulty factors in play: Each envelope was 13x18, so it was a large size, and they all weighed different amounts, since they contained different numbers of books.
It took a little under fifteen minutes to get through the line. That's not too bad, I think, especially for the Christmas season. Then it took thirty minutes to get through the shipping process. That's not bad either. So thanks, Post Office, for being so good.
The only thing I wish is that there were an easier way to do it. They used to have Postal Stores as part of the facility that handled the simple stuff, like stamp buying. If there were a special line or place for Clients of a Difficult Nature, I would have been glad to go there instead, and spare all the poor souls stuck in line behind me.
Thankfully, I'm not running for office this year.
Then, when I got home, I heard that yesterday was the Biggest Shipping Day of the Year. Glad to help, I guess.