Oh, man, my head is about to explode. I picked up a package, a little flat 9x12 envelope containing two little theater programs from that theater in San Diego where I saw The Most Happy Fella - it had been "opened for inspection" by the USPS. So, I wanted to find out in what universe they thought it was okay to open a privately mailed package mailed IN CA TO CA. I spent twenty minutes with their automated system and I was ready to just go down to the post office and start screaming. You literally could not even get an option to speak to someone - customer service, agent, nothing worked. I finally started screaming into the phone and something I said finally got the connection to customer service after which I was told it would be an hour on hold. I hung up, called the local branch and got a person on the phone right away. She said if it's media mail they have the right to inspect and they do it because these eBay jerks and others abuse it all the time, or try. I said I wasn't sure what could be in a completely flat large padded envelope that could be abuse - certainly not an explosive device - she said something about letters - how can you have a media mail package with 2.83 postage that contain letters - how is that abusing and how would the sender save money doing it? I looked up what you can send and while it's limited it does cover a lot of stuff. I was furious but just got off the phone. Add to that all these cretins doing all this home building work, including now my next door neighbor who has clearly been doing something in his house - these idiots are literally taking every parking space within two blocks and I have HAD it, and that's my next call because certainly people who LIVE in these locations must have some rights.
