Your experience is alien to me. I'm probably in the thousands of USPS packages shipped. - Use electronic shipping whenever possible. With label sticker paper,

Your experience is alien to me. I'm probably in the thousands of USPS packages shipped. - Use electronic shipping whenever possible. With label sticker paper, it's less than 5 minutes for me to create, pay and print a label on usps.com and have it on the package. Then in most cases you can just drop it in the package slot at the post office or have your mail carrier pick it up, no interaction at the post office required. - If you're making a little side money off of eBay, eBay or PayPal shipping couldn't be easier (and the price for First Class Package, if you're < 1 lb, is a third of Priority etc) In the rare cases I have to interact with clerks - international, SCAN forms - they've been quite efficient everywhere I've been. Basically, you can largely avoid having to ever stand in line. If you can't, I'd suggest not going in during peak times. Lines are slow because people who stand in lines largely don't know what they want and don't know how to work the post office.