Posted on 12/03/2018 4:53:11 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Is this FAKE news ??
It happens on every federal holiday. People who don’t celebrate Christmas might wonder why others get a paid day off...too bad for them.
How often does a president die?
With all respect, if you don’t find something more important to worry about, you probably won’t live to be 94.
Even Amazon uses the USPS to deliver some of their packages.
Will you still need me
Will you still feed me
When I’m 94??
Well I don’t care about the financial end of this issue, however I do not think the death of a former president requires the mail to be stopped and the markets to be closed.
I live in a republic, not a monarchy.
I’m gunning for 94. That’s how long my Granny lived, and I’m a lot like her ;-)
Then become an activist, and get somebody to change the laws and regulations. Make it so that everybody has to work every frickin’ day, dammit - no ‘special occasions’!
(Good luck with that, and with your ensuing ‘popularity’ :-)
I never said that, you are overreacting.
I said that the death of former president George Bush does not rise to the level of closing markets and the Post office.
Former presidents are citizens. Not Gods.
there is no monarchy here.
So these government employees are not going to deliver mail but they’ll get paid anyway? And you support this?
Exactly. How does not getting your mail delivered — and the Xmas season backup presumably getting worse — in any way honor Deep State Poppy?
Hmm. I think he is misinformed. I have stuff shipping today slowboat and it will be here next week.
Circling the drain financially so let’s close for a day during our busiest time of year! That’s the ticket! “National Day of Mourning” does not equal “Holiday”. UPS & FedEx shutting down? I think not.
http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/financials/annual-reports/fy2017.pdf
A politician died, it's a funeral. And ya bring up Christmas? Where did this come from?
That box should be free if they are not delivering to your house. I have that situation, except I live 2 blocks away.
Yes, I support this; just as I support them getting off on Christmas, New Year’s, Thanksgiving, etc. These are federally mandated holidays, just as this National Day of Mourning is.
Again, if you want it different, work to change it. Take away from the government the ability to designate these days - (I think in this case it’s the Executive Branch; and while YOU may think so, I’ve never thought of Trump or any president as a ‘Monarch’).
While you’re at it, abolish Memorial Day, Labor Day, Veterans’ Day...after all, idealogical purity demands that the mail must be delivered Every Day!)
Of course you do. It was a rhetorical question.☺
And I noted you're comparing Christmas again to Bush dying. Very odd.
Btw, everyone knows these government employees get all kinds of days off paid. This is no secret...And you're here supporting it!☺
Btw, would you support private sector workers getting all those government paid holidays as well, if the government sponsored/subsidized it?
I just find it amazing for the government post office, an entity which delivers 200,000 tons of non-solicited, unwanted junk mail, you're all for paying these government employees not to work!
And ya say it's all good because it's tradition right?
Your complaint is with Pres. Trump who ordered it.
No Trump did not order that the Postmaster probably did that. The government really does not run the post office anymore, it’s been independent since about 1970.
It would take the President of the United States to order the holiday as he is the head of the executive.
Look, he has to go through the motions. If Trump spoke out against this bull s**t he’d be attacked by the corrupt collusive media into the new year. Look what the corrupt media did with McCain’s death.
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