The UPS Store

Cost here are crazy! Staff not very friendly or knowledgable, took 20 minutes to print a three page document.
Fax $ 6.00 per page
Copies .59 per page b/​w
Internet .59 per minute
FedEx store around the corner with much friendlier staff and reasonable prices. Seems like this place only exist to rip off business travelers fought in a pinch.

I waited 20 minutes — no exaggeration — in this wide-​open store but no staff person ever showed up. This branch address is Conn Ave but in fact it’s on the 2^nd floor of the Mayflower Hotel and is a shoebox-​sized combo UPS store/​hotel business center. On 7÷13÷15, I had a meeting in the area so brought a package I needed to ship at 10:35AM. I stood until 10:55 in the doorway of this place and no UPS staff ever materialized. I had to get to my meeting so left. Fortunately, the UPS store at 1718 M Street, around the corner was open and I took the box there… after schlepping it into the meeting with me.
Note to UPS: your absentee employee left your store wide-​open with shelves full of supplies, gadgets, packing materials and various others items free for the taking in a hotel right off a common seating area. I’m too honest to have touched anything but someone could’ve walked out with a printer or anything during the time that space was vacant.
Making matters worse, Mayflower staff repeatedly walked by the door since one of its business offices was adjacent and despite seeing me there with package in hand, either smiled and slipped away fast and walked off or averted their eyes. I finally caught a hotel staffer, said I’d been waiting 10 minutes by then and could he track down UPS staff? He said sure but clearly nothing happened. Since this space also serves as the hotel’s business center and, therefore, ostensibly part of the hotel operation, you’d think that staff would feel a little more accountable for things running smoothly.