Post Office

Been here twice. First time I thought it was a gem post office because no lines, but CASH ONLY. Second and last time I was here I had to mail three packages. I was told I had to buy the «recycled» boxes at 2.99 each to mail my packages even with priority mail because they didnt have priority mail boxes. I was thinking something was fishy when they were selling all of the donated boxes and had no real USPS boxes. I bit the bullet and had the lady tape everything up but when she rang it up it was 45 dollars! I asked if it could be mailed parcel post for less and she said yeah but she would have to remove all of the «priority mail» tape and i would have to purchase a roll of tape. Then she said that the proirity mail prices just went up and that this wasnt a real US post office but owned by mail boxes etc! What a scam.. What a rip and a totally rude lady. Never going back. I would rather wait in a mile long line at the USPS and pay standard prices with friendly workers.

This is the worst Post Office that I have ever had to use. I didn’t think I would need to use the mailbox service for long because I’ve been trying to move and I didn’t want to have to change my mailing address before moving, so I have put up with the terrible service for a while. At this point, I don’t care, I am in the process of figuring out a new mailing address.
My first complaint is that the woman behind the counter in consistently rude. We pay our box rental by the month and when I tried to pay for one month with a $ 20 bill she demanded that I pay for two months (which would have been $ 22) and the box rent wasn’t even late for the current month nor had it ever been. She also does not have a grasp of many of the USPS services. The office is frequently and randomly closed during regular business hours which makes it difficult to pick up packages or mail things. They do not have an after hours mail slot, nor do they have an accessible trash/​recycle bin. Frequently, my mail arrives days late, and I have seen bins of mail not put into post boxes just sitting out on a shelf in the public area of the business. I rarely receive mail on Mondays but I get enough mail that I should be getting mail every day. They are now charging a dollar fee for receiving a package and when my husband argued that we are already paying for the mail service and that we shouldn’t have to pay extra to receive packages, she said she was going to return all of our packages to sender, (is this even legal?!). My final complaint is that the place is a disaster area. It is dirty and cluttered. It is hard to believe that the USPS would allow this place to use their name. If I could give this place zero stars, I would.

apparently they do tailoring and alterations too? what? that’s what the sign says anyway.
I forgot to mention that they have a bunch of FBI Most Wanted print outs all over their window. It provided some entertainment.
2.5 stars.

Uhm, where to begin. Let me just start off by saying that I didn’t have a bad «experience” — ie, no one was rude to me, promised services were rendered, etc. And let me also say that it doesn’t seem that anyone knows about this place (smack dab in front of the crosswalk), so there were no lines to speak of. I actually walked past it myself on my most recent visit, even though I’d been there before.
And to clarify, this is a certified contractor’s outpost — the establishment is not run by the post office.
But walking into this place is like walking into the home of a chronic hoarder and manic depressive alcoholic long overdue for divorce. Dimly lit (like, didn’t even look open), clutter everywhere, dirty, dirty, dirty — unbrowsable, should I want some kind of useful packing mechanism (tape, bubble envelope, what have you). I felt like I was on a social worker’s home visit. There were postal boxes full of letters all over the place (storage problem, apparently). There was a microwave perched precariously on top of a cardboard box, which was on top of a pile of stuff. I couldn’t stop thinking of the misery of this postal worker’s existence and the number of letters suffering a slow dusty death underneath the furniture. This place would totally fly in (name a third world country) but in this location on College Ave one has to suspect that some kind of operation more interesting and illegal than mail distribution is happening. Or maybe it is just a «charming mom and pop establishment.» Dunno.