US Postal Service Standard Mail

Pros: Fast, efficient, convenient, cost effective.
Cons: None, I greatly appreciate their service.

Did you know that Benjamin Franklin was appointed the nations first Postmaster General by the Second Continental Congress in 1775? A have a few side vocations, part-time gigs where a struggling middle-class family man trying to make ends meet ...

Pros: An easy way to lessen receipt of junk mail and receive first class in your mailbox
Cons: not all junk mail stops coming

If you are like me, you like receiving certain types of mail. I love getting my greeting cards, magazines and catalogues that I subscribe to. I do not, however, enjoy receiving requests for remittance of payment from companies. But, then, who in...

Pros: efficient service
Cons: ~none~

UPDATE: I worked at the Post Office Sorting Facility that was recently the scene of a terrible crime in which 7 people working here were killed on Monday January 20, 2006, including the kind lady that helped to train me, Charlotte Colton, mother of 3 ...

Pros: Cheap. Reliable over 95% of the time. Excellent customer service at my local office. Friendly employees.
Cons: Different carrier and delivery time each day. Loss of some mail from my post office box.

Like many people, there is a lot I like about the United States Postal Service, but there are also a few things that can be improved.

I am a frequent visitor to the my local post office. I rent my own little box there (I feel so important)....

Pros: Well sometimes I get my mail
Cons: They don't care that the mail carrier messes up regularly

We have a long standing joke through out our neighborhood...we have nicknamed our mail carrier Speedy. The only problem....he isn't quite so Speedy. We even have a neighbor who does a fantastic impression of Speedy.

Speedy comes...

Pros: Rain or Sleet or Snow , They always Show
Cons: Just a Few

Epinions wants to know why I chose this company. I would have to say because it is still by far the cheapest way to get my mail delivered and the only way that I know of personally. Unless I send it overnight mail by UPS , Federal Express or one of the...

Pros: Portion of stamp sales goes to research, tax deductible
Cons: NONE!!

When I was a little girl, my mother would send me to the local post office to buy a book of stamps. This was the extent of my experience with the US Postal Service until I became employed there 21 years ago.

After ten years working nights in...

Pros: The occasional letter gets through, sometimes
Cons: Lots of mistakes, uneven delivery, vehicle for tons of junk

I don't have the Seinfeld quote just right, but whoever wrote the episode where Kramer attempted to put a halt to his mail deliveries permanently was dead on target.

I think Kramer could run for president on a "Stop the Mail!"...

Pros: fast, reliable and efficient workers
Cons: sometimes mail delays and long lines

Yes, I know, I have heard it all before. Yet, I am here to tell the truth about the US Postal Service. (Gulp)...

Did you get your mail today? And from where did it come? Did you know that postal workers work an average of 50 hours a week...

Pros: Free, reliable service delivers stamps right to your door
Cons: You have to plan ahead

I just read through a slew of epinions on stamps.com. And, as can be expected, some of you love it and some of you...well, don't. I have to admit I've never tried the service myself. Yes, I was intrigued when I first discovered it. I buy just about...

Pros: Helps those in need
Cons: You might have to wash out your cupboards

Pros: Get's your mail to where it's supposed to most of the time
Cons: Service Stinks!

I am becoming extremely upset with the US Postal Service! And now they are talking about raising the rates, as if it isn't already high enough!

The service at the counter.

I don't know if it's me or what, but the postmaster is edgy...

Pros: It gets there.....
Cons: Takes forever

I must admit, I hardly ever mail things standard. Why? Because it takes forever.

I am at the post office at least once a week spending a lot of money to mail packages. I was low on cash the one day so I decided that instead of sending...

Pros: Good, quality service
Cons: None

The United States Postal Service is often an easy target for criticism for everyone. Postal service is thought to be slow and inefficient by many. I find this statement to be totally inaccurate. I have found the US Postal Service to be dependable...

Pros: delivery in rain, hail, sleet or snow
Cons: can be slow as molasses

I have read most of the reviews on the USPS and most are very accurate and points well stated. It is truly snail mail and takes forever it seems to get most mail from even across the city, much less across the country...or worse yet across the ocean! But...