Your Saturday in Hambden Is Too Short for a Post Office Line

Saturday is the only day you can do the things that need doing during the week. You have three returns. You have a package for your daughter at Ohio State. You have a box of fishing reels you sold on eBay.

The post office on Route 6 opens at 8:00 AM. You get there at 9:30. The line is already past the counter and curling toward the door.

Fifteen people ahead of you. One window open. The woman at the front is shipping a box to her grandson in the Marines. She wants to know about flat-rate. She wants to know about insurance. She wants the clerk to check tracking on a package she sent last week.

You stand there. You look at your watch. You look at the ceiling. You look at the elderly man behind you who is also holding a stack of packages.

The Saturday Math

The Chardon post office closes at 1:00 PM on Saturday. If you hit the line at 9:30, you are out at 10:15. That is forty-five minutes spent handing packages to a federal employee.

Forty-five minutes of your only free day.

You still need to mow the lawn. You still need to pick up gravel for the driveway. You still need to get the car inspected. The returns were supposed to take ten minutes.

Three Minutes Instead

Mailbox Plus in Concord Township is open on Saturday. Walk in. Hand over the packages. Get the receipts. Done.

We take UPS. We take FedEx. We take USPS. We take DHL. All the carriers at one counter. The returns you have from Amazon, Zappos, and Etsy — all three drop at the same place.

No line. One employee behind the counter who does this all day. She scans the labels. She gives you the receipt. You walk back to your car.

Three minutes. Not forty-five.

The Drive

Concord Township is 15 minutes from Hambden. Girdled Road to Route 44. Same road you drive to get to the post office. But you are not standing in a line at the end of it. You are in and out while the post office line is still shuffling forward.

You get home at 9:48. The lawn gets mowed. The gravel gets picked up. Saturday is still Saturday.

Bring your Saturday returns to Mailbox Plus. Three minutes. Back to your weekend.