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Post and FiOS
May. 11th, 2005 03:17 amToday I went to our P.O. box for the first time in ages. I thought I'd been there in February or so, but apparantly not... I'd go more often if the post office actually had decent damn hours. Why is it they have the most ridiculous business hours? Couldn't they at least install one day a week where things are open later?
Our box had one of those "you need to pick up mail at the counter" slips in it, and when I gave it to the woman behind the counter along with the box number, she went "oh, that's yours?!"... ominous words ;) She then proceeded to hand me two plastic bags full of mail, and told me with a smile that I should visit them more often.
Not quite mail though, most of it is the weekly local ad newspaper, and just loads of flyers. Some of the circulars dated back to before Christmas. Eek. There was a batch of mail for people whose box it no longer is, or never was. The only things I kept were the 3 or so items addressed to goth.net, and the menus for the Indian place in Valhalla that we took![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
darkvervain to a couple weeks ago, as well as the menu for a local Chinese/Japanese place that's close-by. It'll be good to have another Chinese/Japanese place we can go to or order from seeing as the other local one is on our no-no list after a cockroach incident when we took darktor to dinner there... the incident was months ago, and we haven't had Chinese/Japanese take-out since, nor have we set foot in that place.
One other advertising circular I brought home was one from Verizon, which I thought might be of interest toprez, and I was right. As it turns out, this month Verizon is installing Fiberoptic highspeed internet in our area. So PreZ immediately set up an appointment for them to come install that. Sometime on May 26th ("between 8am and 5pm"... grr! dontcha love it when they narrow it down?), we should be getting someone out here to set that all up. The only downside of it is that it doesn't come with a block of IP addresses, which was one thing he had (extra) with the small business DSL that we have here right now. But the much higher speed is worth it (15mbps down, 2mbps up). It's also a lot cheaper than the small business DSL+IPs, and we'll actually shave a nice amount off our internet bill.
PreZ also went on Verizon's site and tweaked our phone plan. Now we'll get more services and save a couple of bucks a month compared to the old plan. I'm still not sure exactly how that works and how Verizon's making money off that, but there you go. We're paying less, so I'm not complaining.
Our box had one of those "you need to pick up mail at the counter" slips in it, and when I gave it to the woman behind the counter along with the box number, she went "oh, that's yours?!"... ominous words ;) She then proceeded to hand me two plastic bags full of mail, and told me with a smile that I should visit them more often.
Not quite mail though, most of it is the weekly local ad newspaper, and just loads of flyers. Some of the circulars dated back to before Christmas. Eek. There was a batch of mail for people whose box it no longer is, or never was. The only things I kept were the 3 or so items addressed to goth.net, and the menus for the Indian place in Valhalla that we took
darkvervain to a couple weeks ago, as well as the menu for a local Chinese/Japanese place that's close-by. It'll be good to have another Chinese/Japanese place we can go to or order from seeing as the other local one is on our no-no list after a cockroach incident when we took darktor to dinner there... the incident was months ago, and we haven't had Chinese/Japanese take-out since, nor have we set foot in that place.One other advertising circular I brought home was one from Verizon, which I thought might be of interest to
prez, and I was right. As it turns out, this month Verizon is installing Fiberoptic highspeed internet in our area. So PreZ immediately set up an appointment for them to come install that. Sometime on May 26th ("between 8am and 5pm"... grr! dontcha love it when they narrow it down?), we should be getting someone out here to set that all up. The only downside of it is that it doesn't come with a block of IP addresses, which was one thing he had (extra) with the small business DSL that we have here right now. But the much higher speed is worth it (15mbps down, 2mbps up). It's also a lot cheaper than the small business DSL+IPs, and we'll actually shave a nice amount off our internet bill.PreZ also went on Verizon's site and tweaked our phone plan. Now we'll get more services and save a couple of bucks a month compared to the old plan. I'm still not sure exactly how that works and how Verizon's making money off that, but there you go. We're paying less, so I'm not complaining.