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Consumer Alert
Mar. 22nd, 2006 11:22 pmThe 49-cent mailing labels at the Post Office are an example of horrible product design. Use something else.
I had a package I was mailing today. I had to get one because I didn't have a label and the box was being reused so it wouldn't work to write the address right on it.
The first label I had a lady who worked there was trying to be helpful and she tried to peel it off the backing to put on the box. It separated such that it left the sticky part stuck to the backing and the label was coming off very thin and non-sticky. She told me to get another one, so I wrote out the new one and peeled it myself. Extra carefully and slowly since I'd seen what could happen. It was a bit difficult, it wanted to do to me what the other had done to the employee, but I got the big part off. When I tried to get the last corner off, it separated too and we wound up having to tape down the corner.
So just remember to bring your own label or label it at home or whatever... their address labels are just too horribly designed to do what they're supposedly made to do.
I had a package I was mailing today. I had to get one because I didn't have a label and the box was being reused so it wouldn't work to write the address right on it.
The first label I had a lady who worked there was trying to be helpful and she tried to peel it off the backing to put on the box. It separated such that it left the sticky part stuck to the backing and the label was coming off very thin and non-sticky. She told me to get another one, so I wrote out the new one and peeled it myself. Extra carefully and slowly since I'd seen what could happen. It was a bit difficult, it wanted to do to me what the other had done to the employee, but I got the big part off. When I tried to get the last corner off, it separated too and we wound up having to tape down the corner.
So just remember to bring your own label or label it at home or whatever... their address labels are just too horribly designed to do what they're supposedly made to do.
