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To: PoloSec
Ever since the Post Office took away mail contracts from the railroads and started long-hauling, the service has declined. Plus it went a long ways to killing passenger rail.

Back in the middle of the last century my home town not only had Monday through Saturday daily delivery, but businesses received deliveries twice a day during the work week.

I submit that Congress should stop trying to screw We The People. We require a Postal Service and We require Monday though Saturday delivery.

So Congress, quit messing around! Investigate options as businessmen. And yes, that means nonunion options!!

9 posted on 07/06/2014 1:50:18 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: DakotaGator
We require a Postal Service and We require Monday though Saturday delivery.

You don't speak for all of us. I can live w/ MWF delivery.

21 posted on 07/06/2014 2:10:27 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: DakotaGator
Back in the middle of the last century my home town not only had Monday through Saturday daily delivery, but businesses received deliveries twice a day during the work week.

I remember twice a day home delivery. Of course, I'm old.

25 posted on 07/06/2014 3:04:24 PM PDT by Graybeard58 ( What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? 1 Cor. 13, V.36)
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To: DakotaGator
Back in the middle of the last century my home town not only had Monday through Saturday daily delivery, but businesses received deliveries twice a day during the work week.

I don't require Monday-through-Saturday delivery. I'd do fine with a couple of days a week, since most of our bills come electronically and most of them are paid electronically. Electronic payment from home is something that wasn't possible in the middle of the last century.

Just like the Pony Express wasn't a reasonable answer a century after it was first used, six-day-a-week service probably isn't needed now. Things change.

I submit that Congress should stop trying to screw We The People. We require a Postal Service and We require Monday though Saturday delivery.

Please don't speak for "We the People", because you certainly do not and there is no reason that I should have to subsidize your wants or how you choose to conduct your business or private life.

There is a difference between "need" and "want", and it sounds like you'd do well to figure that difference out. If you "need" access to your mail every single day, pay for a post office box. Most of the rest of us could easily do without.

Americans have had it a lot harder than not getting mail delivery every day but Sunday. Its time we stop spending money we plainly don't have.

34 posted on 07/06/2014 5:27:38 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens ~ J.R.R. Tolkien)
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