Education Dept. rejects most applicants for student loan forgiveness program

Re:Education Dept. rejects most applicants for student loan ... by test6554 on Saturday April 06, 2019 @12:55AM (#19589328)

I was at the post office the other day to get passports for the family. It turns out that they had a signup sheet with only 25 spots on it for the whole day. I got there 13 minutes after they opened and I was 21st on the list. I waited for 3 hours just to be able to hand in the paperwork. I didn't walk out with a passport, just handed them the paperwork.

And no, if you have a kid under 10 with you, you can't do it online. You have to show up in person with both parents.

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Re:Education Dept. rejects most applicants for student loan ... by tptacek on Saturday April 06, 2019 @01:23AM (#19589399)

Funny, we just did the same with our two kids. We called the post office and they encouraged us to make an appointment, which we did. We showed up on time, and waited less than 5 minutes. They walked us through completing the paperwork and had us out in minutes. A couple weeks later (yesterday) the passports arrived.

That's a better job than Comcast or Blue Cross ever did for me.

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Re:Education Dept. rejects most applicants for student loan ... by EdSeegar on Saturday April 06, 2019 @06:34AM (#19590137)

It's almost as if, the federal government is a vast machine with a few malfunctioning parts which doesn't mean its bad as a whole, over generalization of its specific shortcomings being unproductive. Its almost as if...we need to improve it instead of bitching about how we don't need it

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Re:Education Dept. rejects most applicants for student loan ... by gok on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @01:55PM (#19617312)

Same, and the post office photographer even had a great technique for getting an infant to look at the camera and not smile.

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Re:Education Dept. rejects most applicants for student loan ... by lamarpye on Saturday April 06, 2019 @01:54AM (#19589494)

The one is San Jose is even worse. You have to show up 2 hours before the Post Office opens to get a spot.

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