United States Post Office

The United States Postal Service is the most God awful delivery service on the planet. Do not ever use them for anything if you can help it

Look — the gov is deliberately running down the Postal Service and refusing to fund it properly, in fact for years they took profits from the Postal Service to prop up other areas — Google it — and yes the service in Atlanta is thus in decline. The gove wants to drive the private — big political donors — super expensive carriers to help them make more profits and get bigger political donations. The politicians get no rewards from a good postal service.
You face a demoralised and unmotivated work force who despite that do overall a pretty decent job. And like the Soup Nazi… no soup for you — if you don’t follow the rules as I say «no post for you».
Recently some important docs via UPS to us… they delivered us some guys US passport complete with a visa for China and our must sign biz docs… gone…and I’d a flight to catch. Went to a UPS store with the person’s passport, they said «we are a franchise we aren’t UPS just go and wait at home». I said to the UPS store manager, «buddy you have a giant UPS sign outside, here’s this guy’s passport, you have it, I have a flight to catch» and walked out… give me the US Post Office every time all our biz mail from us goes via them.

Now that the P.O. has changed their lunch hours to 1:30 — 2:30, things are alot better! My frustration used to be just that issue. I guess enough people complained so they changed the hours. I typically visit during my lunch break. The staff aren’t particularly energetic (I’ve never seen P.O. workers who are), but there aren’t negative either. I wish they moved with more urgency though. I love that I can just drop off a pre-​paid package without having to wait in the usual long lines.

this place wouldn’t be half bad (for a post office) except for the fact that THEY ARE NEVER OPEN. i think that the last three times i tried to send something from this place i have walked up to the door with a handful of stuff only to pull on the door and be disappointed. they even put the hours on the door in a misleading way letting you know what hours the lobby is open, and who cares about that.
what time would you like to send a package?
tuesday 9am — CLOSED
monday 2pm — CLOSED
friday 6pm — CLOSED
saturday 3pm — CLOSED
sunday — YEAH RIGHT
you basically have to take the day off from work to try and mail something out from there.
the people there are nice and relatively helpful if you do happen to walk in there during the rare hours when they are open.

I’ve been waiting for them to deliver a single package for four days now. I received a slip in the mail stating that my package was at the post office because no one was home to accept delivery. I had been home all day. I signed the form asking for it to be resent and delivered at a time I knew that I would be home. That was four days ago and I’ve received other packages since. Good luck getting anyone to pick up the phone. I’ve been calling for an hour.

I am so surprised by the awful reviews of this post office! I had to pick up a package here this past week. While I was at it I bought a mailer to send a Christmas present off to my sister in Michigan.
Now, yes this post office is closed from 12:30 — 1:30. Yes that is extremely unfortunate since that pretty much axes the possibility of stopping by during your lunch break. (Although it does make me happy to know that their employees get a nice lunch break at a normal hour).
The annoying schedule aside, I had a perfectly pleasant experience here. I showed up at 1:20 and was already the third person in line for the re-​opening. By the time they opened the line was about 10 people long. The line moved along pretty quickly. The employees were gracious and friendly. Did it take them a little while to find my package? Yes. However, is that the case with every post office? Yes.

Thank, you user, for adding this USPS, so we can share with all the neighbours, just how terrible this place is. I live within walking distance of this pit, so I usually choose to go there above other Post Office’s due to convenience. Each and every time I need to go there I think to myself… maybe this time, they will be nice. Each and every time, I am proven wrong. The ladies that work in this Post Office are absolutely miserable, and just walking in drains all joy from my soul. I was refused service once because it was 12:25 and they needed to close the gate for lunch. Today, I was also told that I needed to buy tape to affix my label to my envelope. Are. You. Kidding. Me? Giving this Post Office one star was tough for me, Unilocal needs to incorporate a negative star just for this place.

I added this «business» just so I could write this review. I know what you’re thinking, «It’s a US Post Office outlet, how could you expect anything less than the 11^th circle of hell?» which is a fair statement, but this was so bad that it merited a fair warning for other innocent passersby attempting to actually send a package.
First of all, I’m 39 weeks pregnant, so doing anything these days is a challenge, but I wanted to mail my sister’s birthday gift and after a blissful prenatal massage, I found myself around the corner from a post office! Score!
Not so fast…
Unlike any other post office I have ever encountered, this one is closed for lunch from 12:30 — 1:30; this should have tipped me off that people here obviously don’t do any work of any kind. But seeing as it was 1:20, I took my chances.
I had my own box and everything inside, ready to go. At 1:35, when folks finally showed up, I went up to the counter asking to mail the package to Canada. The woman said «You need to tape it up, address it, and get a customs form» gesturing vaguely to a wall of unmarked paper slips, none of which said «customs.»
When I said I did not bring tape with me, she suggested I purchase some from an unmanned «gift shop» located within the post office outlet. Seriously? There is no tape offered to customers at a post office?
When I couldn’t find the customs forms (they do not say «customs» anywhere on the outside, only once opened) she was of no help. Another employee had to assist me. When I came back with the labels and forms, she handed me a huge metal taping device with USPS on it and said «You need to leave, tape this, and come back when you are done so I can help other customers» She said it was against policy for them to help/​tape/​or do anything of any kind and she was «following orders.»
That is when I lost it. I had now been waiting at this post office for almost 30 minutes in the Atlanta summer. The line was now super long, and I felt like this baby could come out at any minute. When I asked for help, she said «I’m surprised you don’t know how to tape a box» We then exchanged some words about how I had been waiting a long time while they were on a «lunch break». She proceeded to walk away and said she would return when I was done.
Oh, I was done, alright. I taped up my box, gathered up my forms, and stormed out, but not before warning other clientele: «This is the rudest, most unhelpful postal encounter I have ever had in my life, and I’m from New York City!!! Good luck with them actually sending your packages!» So much for Southern hospitality.
Yeah, there was no way I was taking a chance on them mailing my precious cargo. And I won’t be returning; not there, or to any other USPS outlet, because, honestly, they all suck beyond any and all expectation.
If there were negative stars, this place would have earned them.