Re: Post office apes

"Lumpy" <lumpy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7lb822F3dkf08U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Alex Clayton wrote:
[stamps at the grocery store]
The Fred's here does that. Problem was about half the time the
cashier would look and find she had none, and then would call for
"help". Often this would be a LONG time coming...

It's amazing what grocery stores will do if you ask them.

"Hey Louise, I'm going to want a book of stamps when
I check out. Could you get me a book while I'm shopping?"


Lumpy

In Your Ears for 40 Something Years
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You must still shop at the small "corner store" kind of place. The grocery stores here are all large scale operations. Have 15 or more check stands, and any number of them are staffed by the needs assigned by some floor supervisor. There may be a couple open when you walk in, and :20 later there may well be 10 open and the ones that were there when you walked in are gone. A lot of the help seems to have regular jobs assigned to them and are called to man a register when needed, since I see many I recognize stocking and such also.
There is a little Mom & Pop up the street from me I go to now and then for something simple, because I like the family that owns/ runs it. I will have to ask them if they sell books of stamps next time I am in there. If they do it would be great.
The good part is a book of 20 does last a hell of a long time now. That's as why I liked the idea of those forever stamps. I was always ending up with some left over when the price would change.
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