United States Post Office / Red Hook

 

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vicki M.

Brooklyn, NY

i love this post office. the mailman from here delivers my mail every day. although, quite often he puts mail in the slot that does not belong to me.

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Pas E.

Brooklyn, NY

A nice "tough love" kinda place if you like surly civil servants. Calling them can be just as daunting as an in-person visit. Recently I had to call them to find out what happened to a package that  the postal folks didn't feel like delivering. I was repeatedly told that "it was on the truck", irregardless that the usps website reported that they couldn't attempt delivery for two days and notices were left (which were probably written with invisible ink on magic disappearing paper).

To paraphrase the old Lily Tomlin/Ernestine joke: "they just don't CARE, they don't have to, they're the Post Office."

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David M.

Brooklyn, NY

I got no beef with this place--it beats buying stamps with a 22% premium at the bodega.  As for service, I've certainly seen worse.  It's a low-wage bureacracy, after all, and it's not like they're trying to rebuild New Orleans or anything.  My mail is always on time.

But really I'm yelping it because of its intersection: Bush & Clinton, how great is that?  Better still, that the street sign's ALWAYS getting stolen within weeks after being replaced again--who has these?  Are they sitting in the projects somewhere?  I want a set.

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K. F.

Los Angeles, CA

A good time to be had by all on a Saturday afternoon at Club Red Hook. It gets packed, and the door woman has to turn the riff raff away when the clock's about to strike 1:00.

USPS prole (who probably lives in Far Rockaway and is pissed that USPS transferred her to this branch last year): [locking door] We close at one, sir.

Pissed Racist Italian from Carroll Gardens: My watch says 12:58.

USPS: If I go by your watch, and everyone's watch, I'll be standin' here all day. I can't go by your watch. I gotta go by my watch.

PRIC: I just want to get my mail from my box, comeon.

USPS: Fine. [lets him in] But my watch is right and it's 1:02. I gotta go by my watch.

PRIC: It's not fair, you're cutting it off early. My watch is extremely accurate, trust me. I got the most accurate watch around.

USPS: I ain't cuttin' it off early. And my watch ain't wrong. You need to get in and outta here and stop harassin' me. Get your mail and get outta here.

PRIC: You need to do your job. That's all you need to do. Let people in, and let them out. Just do your job. [retrieves his mail] Do your job.

[USPS continues to shout at him from her little enclosure while he's in the grand ballroom.  USPS then stands in doorway, blocking PRIC's exit. Tempers flare. An all out shouting match ensues, first with the door open and, later, through the locked glass.]

Good times all around.

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James N.

Brooklyn, NY

Always a wait, even when empty?!
Very far from many of its clients or patrons or whatever they're calling us these days.  Thanks to carriers who don't like to carry packages which I've ordered and paid "shipping" for I find myself in line here a lot.  It is dirty, people in line are often cranky and the bullet-proof decor is simply too much.
Strange that this federal agency still gets funded.
(800) ASK-USPS

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