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Apr. 2nd, 2011 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreIf your post office has an automatic postal machine, then about 7-ish on a Saturday night is really the time to go. No waiting in lines, no other people around - just you, sending off packages.
Unless, of course, you are creeped out by empty post offices. That's a possibility, after all.
I am not creeped out by empty post offices, though. I quite like the post office, in fact. It smells like paper and glue and dust, and it's full of little esoteric forms and minutiae, and there are tiny post office boxes and stamps and various slots for various types of letters. I think I could work quite happily at the post office - it appeals to much the same pats of me that like working at the library. It would be a good deal more stressful, of course, but there would be the same devotion to organization and smell of paper and the same feeling of being generally helpful to the populace as a whole, as well as the working for the government thing.*
I always feel very happy in post offices.
*There is a part of me that really likes the fact that I sorta kinda work for the government. It's the same part of me that sorta kinda likes paying taxes and getting a jury duty summons. Those things are, on the face of things, quite irritating but by doing them, I am also Doing My Civic Duty. I am a small part of the machine that makes ours a functioning society. It's perhaps a silly thing to enjoy, but there you are.
Unless, of course, you are creeped out by empty post offices. That's a possibility, after all.
I am not creeped out by empty post offices, though. I quite like the post office, in fact. It smells like paper and glue and dust, and it's full of little esoteric forms and minutiae, and there are tiny post office boxes and stamps and various slots for various types of letters. I think I could work quite happily at the post office - it appeals to much the same pats of me that like working at the library. It would be a good deal more stressful, of course, but there would be the same devotion to organization and smell of paper and the same feeling of being generally helpful to the populace as a whole, as well as the working for the government thing.*
I always feel very happy in post offices.
*There is a part of me that really likes the fact that I sorta kinda work for the government. It's the same part of me that sorta kinda likes paying taxes and getting a jury duty summons. Those things are, on the face of things, quite irritating but by doing them, I am also Doing My Civic Duty. I am a small part of the machine that makes ours a functioning society. It's perhaps a silly thing to enjoy, but there you are.
