Posted on 01/01/2012 6:18:40 PM PST by Libloather
Particularly with patients of the Veterans Hospitals, prescriptions are for pain killers.
Those prescriptions are mailed to NOT overlap—& hopefully not have a gap in delivery time.
It isn’t a case of a patient running out before they ask for more—it is an attempt to keep the pain killers arriving as tho on a conveyor belt system.
These moves by the Post Office can cause some serious problems.
I live rural east/south of Reno. There is a large sorting facility in Reno, which I think is fairly new. The USPS is going to close this sorting location & TRUCK all the mail over to Sacramento, Calif across Interstate 80, and then bring is all back when it is sorted there.
Obviously, the ‘college graduates’ in Washington haven’t been in this area in Winter.
Interstate 80 can be closed for 2 days at a time.
Even if it isn’t closed, every vehicle has to chain up. Either spend time doing is yourself or pay as much as $100 for a ‘chain monkey’ to do it for you.
How will they save money like that? Even the chains wear out & they are not cheap.
The difference is up to 1 day. So the prescriptions, which as you point out are planned well ahead of time, can be mailed 1 day sooner.
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