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Originally Posted by Wagner
Post Office, that is worse then the DMV and Fire Dept, most around here are volunteer, not exactly the same.
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Well, as you said before, perhaps NY is much different than the rest of the country, because it is not like that here at all.
At my local DMV, you wait on line about 5 minutes, then you get a little ticket with a number and you sit down in a waiting area where you can watch TV. Then about 15 minutes later they call your number and you go to the counter that called your number (there are about 20 counters) and they take care of you.
At the local bank, it could be friday afternoon at 2:30 (the most crowded time) and the local bank has 2 tellers working windows, and even though there are 8 windows available, I've never seen more than 3 of them open. So the line goes out the door and it takes 45 minutes to do a simple deposit. And if you want to do something a little more complex like an electronic transfer to a foreign bank, you better put aside your entire day because nobody in the entire bank will know what to do and it will take hours.
But that's because the people working at DMV are middle aged people who had to pass a civil service exam and earn $30-50k per year, while the bank tellers are 22 year old high school dropouts who last worked the counter at mcdonalds.