[rgbrenner]

Haven't been to the post office lately?

>I should be able to go to a vending machine ...

Yes, they have those. They are called "Automated Postal Center"(APC).

> "First Class mail with tracking and delivery confirmation" and they have to ask me 10 questions.

These two things never existed together. There was delivery confirmation, which is not tracking. USPS did not previously provide tracking on First class mail.

Over the past few years they have been improving their tracking of delivery conf #s, and today it's similar to UPS/FedEx tracking.. so recently they renamed it to "USPS Tracking" (in mid-Jan 2013).

[newishuser]

Exactly, I've been 15 times for this very reason and still can't figure it out.