My sainted blogging wife has a couple of broadsides against local post offices for their unhelpfulness in mailing packages to soldiers deployed in Afghanistan, and this appears to be a nationwide problem. She suggests contacting Postmaster General Jack Potter, which seems like a good idea. For all the blather about supporting the troops from every politician, I am constantly surprised at how little the government actually does in this regard, leaving much of it up to volunteers like my wife.
Speaking of said wife, she got a letter today from congressional candidate Chris Cox, son of Republican state Chairman Ed Cox. The younger Cox is running in a Republican primary in Suffolk County, on the east end of Long Island, and hoping to unseat Democratic incumbent Rep. Tim Bishop. "I'm writing to not only ask you for your vote, but for your opinion," Cox says, also hitting her up for money. My wife, however, is a registered Democrat (unlike my independent self), and we live in the Capital Region, a couple of hundred miles from Suffolk County. Cox may be the best candidate in the race, but this letter does not inspire confidence in the competence of Republican campaigning.
Aside from filling out the large white customs forms (instead of the easier green ones that were allowed...prior to the anthrax scare), can't say I've ever really had a problem w/ shipping overseas via the US Postal Service.
It just sounds like you have some local idiots as opposed to it being an institutional problem.
Posted by: Matthew | August 12, 2010 at 01:58 PM
Matt, you're too mild-mannered and agreeable, and insufficiently fired up.
Posted by: Bob Conner | August 13, 2010 at 01:24 PM