US Post Office

Very poor choice if you want to avoid long lines or use self service when the post office is not open. You frequently can't weigh items or purchase postage as their scale and postage vending machine is often broken or out of service for "regular maintenance".

You would think that you could go into the lobby of this post office and purchase postage or weigh a package anytime (like you can in the mailroom of any private company). Not so at this post office. They only have one scale (an electronic scale) that is frequently broken and it takes them a long time to repair it. You would think that they would add a postage vending machine so you could buy stamps or add a second scale or have a mechanical scale since their one scale is often out of service. Customers shouldn't have to drive to another post office to do basic things like buy a stamp or weigh a letter or package. Also, if the scale gives you incorrect information when it is working, they will send your package back to you if it has insufficient postage. Priceless! Their motto should be "We're the post office, we don't care because we don't have too".