Imagine working at a US Post Office without the benefit of a computer, scanner, postage meter, electronic scale or cash register --
and all stamps had to be affixed by hand!It happened today (04/13/2015) in San Francisco:
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The solitary mail clerk working the morning shift was plunged back into the pre-computer 1970s, with no cash registers working, no electronic postage meters, no electronic scales, and all stamps were affixed painstakingly by hand.
He used his smartphone as a calculator before affixing 8 stamps to a customer's over-weight tax return, and hand-wrote in the certified mail receipt information, warning that it might not be in the system, then asked for cash as the credit card readers were not connecting.
A box of change sat next to the register, where the fast-moving, but clearly under-staffed man quickly counted out change.
Quite a look back as to how we so depend upon electronics in this day and age.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...-lone-clerk/
Posted 04/13/2015 4:39 pm
