More proof everything George Bush touches turn to shit.

So I go to the local post office today to send a few things out I sold on eBay. One package is a little over three pounds and shouldn't cost more than $13 to send from California to Florida. I get up there and the clerk says it will be $28 for Priority mail...$2 more than even sending it by Express! It already has the priority mail stickers and everything filled out.

I ask what the deal is; he says if one end is close to 18 inches it now gets some weird ass surcharge "for plane space and gas" (first I've heard of this). Fucking great, I decide to quickly re-box it before they close today and pay $3 for a roll of tape and $3.19 for a box 15 inches in length, well under the suggestion by him to make sure its less than 17 inches and still less than the $15 difference.

After spending an extra $6, ten minutes re-boxing and taping right before they close, I bring it back up there and the fucker asks for $27?!? WHAT THE FUCK? The guy doesn't even know his own post office policies? He tells me its all the machine that does it...then why the fuck did he tell me to make sure one side was less than 17 inches?

I hate to sound like a big fucking racist (which I can be)...but did I mention the clerk and everyone else working in there was black? Was this some sort of payback for 300 years of slavery or something? Making sure I get fucked for twice what it should cost to mail a fucking box that wasn't even that big? I calculated the same postage on the internet with their numbers and zips and it was only $13.65

I was so pissed I just told him to send it express and take the hit; $26 later and filling out a fucking address label for a third time. I was so pissed I went and bought a fucking pack of cigarettes for the first time in nine months.

What shit fucking service and useless assholes there. I'm just going to open a UPS account and not give the Federal government one more fucking dime.