Today I shipped my mom’s gift to her and what a pain in my ass!! First of all, I didn’t have a box. I thought, no big deal, they have those priority boxes. Uh huh and they are great if you are sending a peanut wrapped in poop. No clue where that just came from. Anyway. I had to send her her cookies and the stupid Rubbermaid I bought was sort of largeish. I tried my damnedest to shove it in the $8.95, flat rate priority box, but there would be none of that.

Frustrated, I said to the lady behind the counter, “This is the biggest box you have, isn’t it?” Of course it is!! Why would you have anything larger. Oh, because people maybe want to ship more than a poop covered peanut!! UGH! (There was something else I had to try and shove in the box, but I cannot say because then my mom won’t be surprised when she opens her box).

The lady tells me they have boxes I can purchase. Well neither of those really fit, but the lady said, “What if you tip the Rubbermaid on its side?” It fit like that, but Lord only knows what her cookies are going to look like. In fact, the lady said, “They’re going to get messed up anyway.” NICE!! Glad to hear they ‘handle with care’ these days.

We finally get the box taped up and I ask, “How much will it cost to send this priority?” She says, “A lot!” I said, “Well I appreciate your honesty.” Crazy thing about that, it actually only cost me .58 more to purchase a larger box and pay the priority postage than it cost for that stupid flat rate box. Now that makes a lot of sense?

Yup, now I know why people bitch about and don’t use the U.S.P.S!! They don’t use it because it is way expensive, slow, and they ruin your shit and don’t think twice about it!! I think next year I’ll go to the UPS store in the next town over.