FEDERAL government employees are supposed to defend the country and deliver the mail.
STATE government employees should be doing the other stuff.
I believe that was the original intention before Washington decided to build itself a monolith.
After 4 years in the Navy, I fell into a somewhat different job with a large County.
Essential, as it dealt with the State Attorney and Justice System. Eight of us blanket-retired after 30 years, leaving our operation a professional model for the rest of the country—and a training facility for interns and others in the vocation.
Our professional operation has been replaced by an activity an esteemed colleague refers to as an "Affirmative-Action" Laboratory.
'Don't think I could go back to a party-time-all-the-time environment.
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...and I submit Federal workers should not even be delivering the mail. FedEx, DHL, UPS and many others could do it better.
JoMa