I don’t get what all the complaints about the staff have to do with this post.
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you and the post office share that cluelessness in the relationship of customer service and the popularity of a post office.
while i still prefer usps to a private carrier, USPS hasnt moved on the fact that we have so many choices now. they need to up their game. congress need to ensure they stay open sure, but they need to keep pace. they bought delivery trucks when delivery trucks came out. they need to modernize again. i’ve never seen a PO with a computer terminal i could use. how about that? how about offering services to safely and securely package materials, not just sell the supplies. how about delivery people that can process orders from their trucks? how about the LeDroit Office NOT being closed at lunch time. their hours are ludicrous. how many house wives are there these days? MOST people work during the day. so a neighborhood PO needs to accommodate that.
I bet if LeDroit was open on Saturday and Sunday, it would make more money then by just being open weekdays.

that building is awfully cute, but all that land and their are .. what, like 5 people that work there.

PO’s should couple with public libraries. there should be more combined services. one stop government service functions, or at least, fewer stops.

I think USPS was also considering 5 day a week delivery but there are a lot of people who still want mail on Saturdays. Even NPR had a story about wanting to cancel an air drop postal route in Montana/Idaho.

FWIW, I prefer the post office inside the Postal Museum because when you go later at night there’s always free parking and they are pretty swift about stuff. (Like making sure I had the cancellation mark that day for the mail so I could get my parking ticket adjudicated properly. I am a procrastinator and if they canceled it the next day, I would have be hosed.)

BTW if you really hate the service at your local post office. Call the Postmaster there. They want to know when the service is bad.

And another thing, the USPS doesn’t get direct federal funding, so I’m not sure what the argument is for cost savings being directed towards other social programs. That’s a myth now. (There is a thing called ‘implicit subsidy’ but I think that’s b/c they are the primary means of delivering federal mail.)

Also, I prefer to ship packages via USPS than UPS. I used to sell on ebay and could ship packages starting at $0.79. Try that with UPS.

The closures have nothing to do with a particular employee or their friendliness. And if you don’t go to a particular location, regardless of the reason, it shouldn’t make any difference to you that it is closing, so why bother posting?

http://www.uspsoig.gov/testimony/testimony_052507.pdf
http://www.gao.gov/archive/1998/gg98011.pdf

In comparison DC’s postal services are fantastic. But I am surprised and disappointed to see that in selecting 677 locations out of the thousands all of the country, they picked two that are so close to one another. Surely they could distribute the closures a bit more fairly?

I think there will come a time when USPS is nothing but a regulatory body, establishing zip codes and addresses, and leaving mail delivery to reliable private carriers (and email).

I haven’t needed to go to the post office since it opened, and it’s now the closest, but before that, I’d drive up to the Brightwood one on Georgia Ave., where it’s clean, bright, and friendly.

sheesh.