Tax Day

The Mountain View post office downtown on Hope Street now sports a shiny new machine for self-service on such things as certified mail. Yesterday the line for the automated machine was about one-fourth the wait for the line to see a postal clerk about the same service. However, there were three postal clerks serving the latter line, so it moved along fine. Plus, people weren't exactly speedy when they got up to the self-service machine.

I'm thinking that the self-service machine is the way to go, if you're willing to go late at night when nobody else is there.