Going Postal At the Metropolitan Post Office

The one penny increase on all first class stamps ain’t the problem with the United States Postal Service, it’s the ridiculously long lines in the city’s post offices. Although there are many slow moving ones across the city, the Metropolitan Post Office at 47 Debevoise Street (between Humboldt and Graham) is one of the worst. Located on what basically amounts to the Williamsburg-Bushwick border, the shoddy facility houses automated stamp machines that are often busted, tables with no supplies, and computers that malfunction often. That, coupled with thoroughly lethargic postal workers, makes for one of the worst mail related experiences ever.

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