Posted on 10/02/2011 8:04:14 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
"A refrigerator has never been hacked. An on-line virus has never attacked a cork board." -- from United States Postal Service TV commercial urging people to use mail.
Right. And a buggy whip has never had a broken transmission--so why don't we junk our cars? Really, that was the kind of pathetic logic on display in the USPS TV commercial that aired during today's Fox News Sunday.
View the video here.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
the labor unions and technology have destroyed the post office.
it should be privatized and de-unionized.
Horse ‘n buggy logic from the Post Office. Ping to Today show list.
And a horse and buggy never caused as many traffic fatalities as the automobile.
...dump ‘em!!!!!...
OMG - back to the stone age, maybe they should get paid in cowrie shells.
I would suggest three simple tactics for the post office. First, deliver the mail two days a week...rotate it for different neighborhoods. We don’t need daily mail delivery anymore. Second, at best we need about half the number of post offices that exist today. So start closing them left and right. Third and final...for the month of December, I’d enact a 20-cent additional fee on every package mailed because of the Christmas traffic. It starts on 1 December and ends the day after Christmas.
Get rid of the post office. And the U.S. mint. Financial institutions. Your paychecks are sent auto-e-matically to a redistribution center for bill payment and just scan the barcode microchip embedded in your hand to make purchases. You have more important things to do.
I was going to post that the constitution requires the federal government to provide postal services. Actually, it does not. Close it. Or at the very least zero out its advertizing budget.
Wow. That is absolutely dismaying.
Be a Luddite! Buy a stamp.
As a matter of fact, I guess we should all buy a stamp and send our next handwritten posts to Jim Robinson.
that is an awesome photo!
i borrowed it to print out and place with our obama photos.
Wow. That is absolutely dismaying.
Be a Luddite! Buy a stamp.
As a matter of fact, I guess we should all buy a stamp and send our next handwritten posts to Jim Robinson.
There's are reason I walk past the trash can on the way back into the house...after getting the mail from the mailbox.
The post office is self-sustaining. They have to advertise. Otherwise the millions of non-english speaking people in this country would never know of it’s existence. At least, that they could use it to send stuff and not just receive.
I was going to post that the constitution requires the federal government to provide postal services. Actually, it does not.
Whoa....not so fast... I get checks (income) from my business mail! I suppose people punchin the time clock DONT need the mail.
“The post office is self-sustaining.”
Self-sustaining what? Perpetual money losing machine?
How do you think the USPS funds its deficits every year?
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