Did you ever have a Crazy Ernie day? (Bet you did) (Buy the way, I do stand up comedy locally as Crazy Ernie, and have quite a following locally.) A zany old character with messed up hair, mis-matched clothes, etc. So, here is how my day started. Rain predicted today, just started lightly so took off from golf and packaged some coin shipments. Now, here's where Crazy Ernie steps in. On the way to the Post Office (about 1.5 miles) 3 cars blew their horns and flashed their lights at me. Man, I think, is Crazy Ernie that popular? Then I get to the PO and when I get out I find out that I left my coffee cup on top of the car. Was still sitting there after the 1.5 mile trip, 1 corner and 1 bumpy railroad track crossing. :thumb: But wait, there's more...... One of the packages I was shipping to Texas had no special rush on it so I told the clerk at the PO that I wanted it shipped the cheapest way. You gotta hear this.... The clerk in exact words told me: "The cheapest way will cost you 35 cents more." :whistle: Duuuuhhhhhh! Was this a Rhodes scholar? :secret:
Love the coffee cup on top of the car thing. You see that spoofed in TV commercials often. I once alerted a guy in a sedan that he had left his hammer on the trunk of his car, when he stepped out of the car, he looked to be a tired construction worker on his way home from a long day. Another time, entering an interstate on an old style clover leaf ramp, the car in front of me had their gas cap dangling and gas was sloshing out of the nozzle hole while making that wide arching turn onto the highway. It's not uncommon to find the cheapest rate for shipping higher than the quickest rate. Got more to do with type of transport, hubs they move through and where the volume causes the lesser fee for quicker services. You can often see these differences if you use USPS APS machines and click through the other shipping options.
The cheapest rate can't be higher than the quicker or quickest rate because then the quicker rate would ALSO be the cheapest rate. Could this possibly be his subtle way of telling you you were sending it with insufficient postage? And that you had to pay 35 cents more to bring it up to the cheapest rate.
Gee I'm wondering if its a USPS Michigan thing....... Maybe the Postal authorities send all "those" clerks to Michigan. :whistle:
LOL! It would take a thesis delving into semantics and parcel logistics to untangle that line in regards to my earlier comment and since this is only the USPS and not the US Mint (another beast provided too much attention to its issues) and coin related, it's just not worth it. I do see the point he made and how my wording was inaccurate to what I had hoped to originally express in my reply.
