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Postal Service Is Nearing Default as Losses Mount
The NY Times ^
| Sept. 4, 2011
| STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Posted on 09/04/2011 7:16:33 PM PDT by caper gal 1
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To: Sarajevo
Removing unions from government period would be a huge improvement.
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posted on
09/04/2011 8:06:24 PM PDT
by
caper gal 1
(Rubio/Ryan Ryan/Rubio 2012)
To: caper gal 1
On Obama’s watch, no less: he’ll forever be known as the Post Turtle.
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posted on
09/04/2011 8:08:18 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
To: CapnJack
I will EVER do electronic payments. Way to easy for someone to hack you account and drain you of everything. I agree. So true.
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posted on
09/04/2011 8:10:18 PM PDT
by
DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
(Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
To: caper gal 1
I had a friend once whose job was to sort mail into bins in the backroom of the post office. He said he could easily do 5 bins on a shift but the “union standard” was 2 bins so that’s the most he was allowed to do.
To: blue state conservative
That’s EXACTLY the sort of waste I’m talking about when I rant how unions are destroying this country.
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posted on
09/04/2011 8:16:06 PM PDT
by
caper gal 1
(Rubio/Ryan Ryan/Rubio 2012)
To: caper gal 1
“Stabilize its finances” sounds so much nicer than “bail it out”.
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posted on
09/04/2011 8:22:56 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: Sarajevo
Seems to me it gives them the power, if they choose to exercise it, to establish a post office. I don’t see that it mandates them to do it.
“To establish Post Offices and post Roads;”
How many post roads are there?
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posted on
09/04/2011 8:27:50 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: CapnJack
Been paying bills on line for years. Take precautions and it’s a lot safer than putting things in an outside mailbox.
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posted on
09/04/2011 9:04:48 PM PDT
by
Nucluside
(ready)
To: caper gal 1
Kirk: Let them die!
To: DManA
How many post roads are there?
Very few so named; the most famous named one in the country is the Boston Post Road (aka US 1 nowadays, which is the "lower" post road along the shore line).
Arguably, the interstate highway system is the culmination of the "post road" edict. The notion was certainly supported by the old Commission on Post Offices and Post Roads in the early half of the century. The total cost to the public for building that system comes to about half a trillion dollars, and like every federal "trust fund" meant to support such things, there's no self-sufficiency in it.
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posted on
09/04/2011 11:27:27 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Ciexyz
Maxine Waters agrees with you. She is calling for a trillion dollar job stimulus that will protect government employees.
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posted on
09/05/2011 3:30:50 AM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(Drink good coffee. You can sleep when you are dead.)
To: CapnJack
Do you still get ice delivered to house by horsecart?
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posted on
09/05/2011 3:35:04 AM PDT
by
Rome2000
(OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
To: Olog-hai
I suppose you could argue that if you like to argue but that's not the argument was made when they were built.
Arguably, the interstate highway system is the culmination of the "post road" edict.
They were built for defense, not to speed the mail.
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posted on
09/05/2011 7:05:08 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: DManA
They were built for defense, not to speed the mail
Yes, I've heard that excuse before. Kinda doesn't hold up in the face of the fact that Germany's Autobahn system ended up being a liability instead of an asset, what with the Allies using them to penetrate the Fatherland far easier than without.
The current use of the interstates for transporting mail does mark them as post roads. They along with the airlines killed the railway post office system.
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posted on
09/05/2011 11:50:35 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
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