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Fastest way to get a passport in Houston and how to avoid waiting in the LINE FROM HELL! |
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 With thoughts of going to the Dominican Republic for an exciting trip this summer, Personal trainer Melissa in Houston went to the post office to get her passport. This was quite a horrible experience and definitely worth telling others about. When Houston personal trainer Melissa went to the post office the first time, she discovered that there was a specific time for getting a passport and the people who were in line had been waiting for hours. She also was told she needed to have the passport form filled completely out and had to bring all the documentation necessary. So, because personal trainer Melissa is working every day training clients in their homes, she had to wait to reschedule a day of workouts with clients before she could return to the post office in North Houston to reapply for her passport. A week later when she returned, the houston personal trainer arrived at ten am (which was near the designated start time) and yet found she still was the twenty third person in line and was given a number, told she could come and go until her number was up (there is a sign with the current number posted on it) and was also told the forms she brought back from a week ago were not good anymore because the passport forms had just been updated and changed. SO she got the new form...went home and filled it out..and came back every hour (twenty minute drive each time) to see where the line was. Each hour the line had only progressed by four people..by eleven thirty the clerk was on the fifth person, and by twelve thirty she was on the ninth person, and by one thirty she was on the twelfth person.(each time Melissa walked in and looked at the number posted on the sign) When Houston Personal trainer Melissa saw the clerk was still on number twelve, she sat outside the post office to eat her salad from McDonald's. When she went back in the post office at two twenty p.m., the sign said the clerk was on number twenty one and so Melissa waited in the line, only to find out when she made it up to the front of the counter, that her number had been called when she was out in the truck eating her salad and the clerk said she was not taking anyone else that day and that Melissa would have to come back the next day and wait in line a third time.
OH DEAR GEEZE!!! Melissa was so angry and asked the clerk how she could be on number twenty six when the posted sign still said number twenty one. The clerk said that she was not changing the sign every number because she had to get out of her chair to change the number and since the sign was not by her chair so she was not getting up each time. Houston Personal Trainer Melissa was outraged at the lack of consideration for post office patrons like herself who had been waiting patiently for five hours to get a passport and asked the lady if she minded being reported for her unsatisfactory treatment of the public and the lady said.."BE MY GUEST". SO Here it is for everyone to see. At this point, Melissa called a friend in Tomball who suggested she go to the post office in Tomball as the office was small and friendly. Melissa went the next day at nine thirty a.m to Tomball and the post office passport applications were supposed to start being taken at ten am. When she arrived, she was the only person in line but she got a nice surprise because when the postal workers saw her there, they immediately started processing her passport and did not make her wait till ten am. and also started processing the passport of the lady behind her who had also arrived at nine thirtyish. Both ladies were done by nine forty a.m. ..each passport only taking five minutes. Personal trainer Melissa was SO impressed by the fantastic work ethic of the postal workers in TOMBALL TEXAS and highly recommends that anyone looking for a good experience in passport applications in Houston, should go to a small out lying post office to get quality service and friendly happy people at the counter. What a difference from the large Houston Post office and the small Tomball Office. GOOD JOB TOMBALL TEXAS POST OFFICE WORKERS.. We salute you!!! (photo above of Houston Personal Trainer Melissa on her way out to the post office to get a passport)
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 24 May 2008 )
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