No, I am not complaining, however this struck me as odd.

I went to the post office today to ship last week's auctions. As usual, I formed in line, and I asked for some priority boxes to ship the items in. I normally ask for a certain size, which is about the size of a videotape. Nothing fancy.

Well, the clerk told me they don't have any in the size I needed, and that the USPS headquarters said they weren't allowed to ask for or have any on the premises anymore, and that I (the user) have to order them from the USPS website.

Personally, I think this is a stupid move by the USPS - I don't mind asking for supplies on the website (heck, I'm doing it right now), it just surprised me to see that they would do something like this out of the blue. I see no real reason for them to not have smaller-sized priority boxes there, but I dunno.

Anyway, has anyone noticed this at their local post office? Or heard of the reason why this happened?