They did a study between postal workers and chimpanzees. They proved chimps were 32% slower. Of course, they were better with public relations.
Posted on 04/04/2005 11:09:59 AM PDT by FlyLow
Candle-makers were none too happy with the invention of the light bulb, for obvious reasons. Ditto blacksmiths with the invention of the automobile. So you can imagine how the post office must feel today about cheap, long-distance rates, faxes and email.
While candle-makers and blacksmiths still roam among us today, like the buffalo their numbers have greatly diminished since the country's founding years. I assume they fought the tide of progress tooth-and-nail, but in the end their fate was inevitable. So, too, is the fate of the once great United States Postal Service. Its demise is a foregone conclusion.
The only question is when and how the USPS as we know it today will be put out to pasture for good.
Last month, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) introduced the latest version of a postal reform bill. This in response to recommendations made last year by the President's Commission on the United States Postal Service. And while there are a number of good things in the bill, it is a bill crafted in denial.
The bill's overall intent appears to be to return the USPS to its glory days, ignoring the fact that its time has come -- and gone.
The Magic City Morning Star, a local paper in Collins' Maine, covered the introduction of the bill in some detail. It characterized the purpose of the legislation as an effort "to preserve the jobs of more than 750,000 career USPS employees."
Um, if the intent of postal reform is simply to provide employment for these folks, maybe we can retrain them to become candle-makers and blacksmiths? Talk about back to the future.
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Just go to the post office and say you do not want any third class mail. MOST junk mail is sent via third class so you would not recieve much of that stuff.
Isn't the TSP similar to just buying mutual funds in the same categories offered by TSP, except I get matching contributions from the government? I have TSP and when I look at the categories available, I don't see much difference than selecting the broad category of industries, as I do with my mutual funds. I don't see what the big deal would be to allow the rest of the population to have them.
Receiving is not much better, either. I work during the day, so I'm usually not home when UPS or FedEx delivers. That means a 45-minute drive for me to the warehouse to pick the package up.
You sure about that? I thought the free boxes were for anyone who ships Priority Mail. An ebay seller (or anyone else for that matter) who ships by any other method still has to provide/buy their own boxes.
The USPS hired FedEx several years ago to handle a sizable chunk of its express deliveries. The relationship is working very well for both companies.
It was for every seller, for a while. It may have changed since I quit selling regularly.
Compared to the USPS Regs, The Tax Code is a model of clarity and brevity. The USPS has invented a bureaucratic language that has left Newspeak and Doublespeak far behind. The rules governing mail delivery are completely incomprehensable and enforced to the last period and gobbledigook phrase.
The USPS better keep it together for about another week or two. I've got some quality Cricket matches on DVD being shipped to me from California.
I use priority mail regularly plus the tracking feature and the price is far less than UPS......
No complaints about our rural post office.
They did a study between postal workers and chimpanzees. They proved chimps were 32% slower. Of course, they were better with public relations.
Set the price correctly, and someone will do it. Maybe even someone without a subsidy.
There's no rule against postal workers not dating women. It just works out that way.
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Exactly---there are three catagories that we can chose from they are G funds (which are very secure, least return on investment) ? funds (forgot letter, sorry) which are less secure, but more return, and a third fund which is highest return, less secure---
We are allowed to split our funds that we contribute into the funds however we choose, depending on the risk we want to take---my husband and I have some funds in each, different amounts, ---but we know that the G funds will always be there, kinda like savings bonds--a teeny return, but safe way to "save money"---
I just cannot imagine how anyone can say with a straight face that "Americans" can't handle this "confusing" and "dangerouse" "investment scheme"--which are some adjectives I've seen attached to this plan,...
Not surprising.
Three years ago, we'd write 15-20 checks per month in monthly bills alone.
Now?
With on-line banking (to pay bills), on-line bill-pay (to receive bills and statements and orders, and weekly emails from all different branches of the family, we're maybe sending 4-5 letters a month total.
Mutliply that change by 50 million families, and the only thing they're good for is mailing IRS forms and junk mail.
Again I ask if the Bush plan provides the same 5 percent matching the Thrift Savings plan provides.
All of these plans seem to ignore the IRS - oh, that's right taxces will not increase in the future.
I work for an organization that ships thousands of pieces of mail daily. Although I do agree with you that the DMM (Domestic Mail Manual) can seem a bit overwhelming, it's written in a manner that is actually designed to help you solve your problems.
I really recommend using the USPS website. It's great for checking addresses and determing postage.
And yes, the USPS gives away free Express Mail boxes and envelopes!
I love the USPS!
(yes, I know, I'm a huge mailing nerd...)
Delivering of the mail is one of the very few constitutional mandates required of the Fed.
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