So what could/should you have done? Spoken up, obviously...asked for the offender's manager to immediately come to the counter and have the episode documented in the offender's personnel file. It might even have been egregious enough to get her fired, but even if not, it might have taught her to keep her ignorant, fake-religious bullshit to herself.
IA, it's time you found out. Portland is -not- different from where you came from. Not much, anyway.
Please, tell all the other wide-eyed hipster wannabes salivating over the Portland they imagine while they're whining about how misunderstood they are in (insert city here.) : It's still America, and it sucks here only slightly less than your hometown. And you'll have the same problems here that you always did.
Kind of after the fact at this point, but I just read the post last night. So, I go to a Christian church and what I know is, God doesn't give a flying FUCK about a person's tattoos. What he DOES care about is how people treat other people. That postal worker needs to take a long, hard look in the goddamn mirror and recognize that they are more at risk of being hell-bound for their hateful, judgmental character than another person is simply because they have tattoos. What a bitch. (Also, side note, I'm not sure I could have done what those of you in line did - just stand there saying nothing in the customers defense. That was straight up verbal abuse and it's NOT okay to treat anyone that way.)
Please, tell all the other wide-eyed hipster wannabes salivating over the Portland they imagine while they're whining about how misunderstood they are in (insert city here.) : It's still America, and it sucks here only slightly less than your hometown. And you'll have the same problems here that you always did.
Snickerdoodle -- Please please please get a life.