The labor shortage has reached peak stupid: One post office's workers couldn't sell stamps.
For the past two weeks, at the Park West station of the US Postal Service in Manhattan, at regular intervals employees have announced to people waiting in line that the facility could not sell stamps.On the Upper West Side, where within a one-block radius of the station you can buy a $339 bottle of Champagne, a Baby Yoda costume for a dog and a $9"Young leaves in a bowl Salad," this scarcity was not well-received.
Why the Postal Service has been losing money for years 03:48Park West is a microcosm of the challenges facing the USPS. It's hardly an ideal working situation there. The sanitizer dispenser at the door is empty, the"stand here" feet stickers are curling and strips of the floor are covered in in grey-blue rugs that are neither recognizably cloth or plastic. The air conditioning, on a day when the temperature was in the 70s, barely functioned.
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