Going Postal at Staples

Last week I mailed back a catalog that was delivered.

It was the second time I sent this same catalog back.

Not only was the name on the catalog not mine, but neither was the street mine either.

The only thing that I had in common with the delivered address was the house number only.

How could the postal service make this dumbass move twice?

Since there was no postal bar code on the catalog somebody actually had to read the address on the actual catalog and prepare it for the right address.

But to get it wrong twice?

I really expect that the postal service to do better than this as far delivering my mail. It is bad enough that most magazines I receive come in a less than readable condition, but to make a move like this is just stupidity.

Now enter Staples.

Staples apparently is testing a pilot program to handle “traditional mail services”. What exactly this entails is not detailed to any degree that I could find, but given that the postal workers are protesting it, the services must be interfering with the core business of the postal service.

To me, this sounds like a great way to save the millions of dollars that the postal service have lost over the years and in years to come.

On the other hand, having Staples deal with the mail is much scarier than the postal service themselves. After all, does anybody really want a company known for scamming and lying to handle their day-to-day mail services?

Of course, Staples has been selling stamps for years and sending out packages by UPS since back before I started with the company. But this in no way gives them the path to handling and taking over the postal service.

I see this as a huge mistake as the hourly employees of Staples won’t care at all about the services and like their other endeavors will be a failure.

Unless, of course that Staples wants to go millions of dollars in debt like the postal service.

But then again maybe that may not be a bad thing.