True Story About USPS Service

From an office manager friend of mine:

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I have just returned from the Post Office where I was trying to mail a large envelope for my office to Canada.

For those of you who do not know, if you mail anything other than a standard business envelope outside the USA you have to fill out a form and bring that and the item to be mailed to the post office.

I weighed it on my mail machine and dutifully wrote down the weight 5.1 oz.(that's ounces for some on my overseas readers)

The following conversation occurred.

Post office employee: You wrote down the weight wrong.

Me: What do you mean?

POE: It's heavier than you wrote. It weighs five point ten and you wrote five point one.

Me: That is the same thing.

POE: No it's not. Five point ten is heavier than five point one.

Me: But that's the same thing.

POE: Then why does my machine say five point ten and you wrote down five point one.

Then my head exploded.

**Chicago was recently discovered to have the worst mail service in the nation.