The Post Office

[Cripplecreek]

I have to admit, I don't understand the push-back.  We know the PO is overly costly and inefficient.  It's being supported by working people's salaries.  We need to reform it.  I'm sure there are many very nice, ethical people working there, my postlady is one of them.  But - it needs some serious fixing.

Logistics is a real problem.

The truck that brings our mail to our post office from Lansing comes to the area post offices 5 times per day at 40+ miles 1 way in a near empty 25 foot straight truck.

I asked the driver 1 morning about why he did it and he claimed it was because of the way the mail is sorted in Lansing. After he left our postmistress pointed out that he's a contract driver getting paid by the mile.

Personally I would eliminate all the national postal service infrastructure and contract with UPS and FedEx for deliveries down to the local post offices like mine.

[Silver Pines]

And I'm not "Skippy" either.

Address me properly or not at all.

And that is NOT a request.

@JustPassinThru

I'll do what I damn well please, Skippy.  Got that?

[Cripplecreek]

@JustPassinThru

I'll do what I damn well please, Skippy.  Got that?

Damn skippy. 

[Silver Pines]

I have to admit, I don't understand the push-back.  We know the PO is overly costly and inefficient.  It's being supported by working people's salaries.  We need to reform it.  I'm sure there are many very nice, ethical people working there, my postlady is one of them.  But - it needs some serious fixing.

@Sanguine

I agree with that, and I don't think I implied that the nice folks working at our PO, including my husband, change that fact.  What bugs me is clueless know-it-alls who refuse to listen to input from people who are actually involved with the situation.

[Silver Pines]

Damn skippy. 

@Cripplecreek

Lmao!

[Silver Pines]

Logistics is a real problem.

The truck that brings our mail to our post office from Lansing comes to the area post offices 5 times per day at 40+ miles 1 way in a near empty 25 foot straight truck.

I asked the driver 1 morning about why he did it and he claimed it was because of the way the mail is sorted in Lansing. After he left our postmistress pointed out that he's a contract driver getting paid by the mile.

Personally I would eliminate all the national postal service infrastructure and contract with UPS and FedEx for deliveries down to the local post offices like mine.

@Cripplecreek

Here's an example of the stupidity of the PO bureaucracy.  If I have something I want to drop in the mail slot for a local person---say a thank you note----it should reach the person next day at the latest.  If dropped in the box early enough, before the carriers get out on their routes, it should reach them the same day.  But no....that piece of mail for a local person is picked up,  sent to NC, and then sent back here.

[EC]

@Sanguine

I agree with that, and I don't think I implied that the nice folks working at our PO, including my husband, change that fact.  What bugs me is clueless know-it-alls who refuse to listen to input from people who are actually involved with the situation.

Welcome to the wonderful world of armchair generals.

[Cripplecreek]

@Cripplecreek

Here's an example of the stupidity of the PO bureaucracy.  If I have something I want to drop in the mail slot for a local person---say a thank you note----it should reach the person next day at the latest.  If dropped in the box early enough, before the carriers get out on their routes, it should reach them the same day.  But no....that piece of mail for a local person is picked up,  sent to NC, and then sent back here.

Exactly. Like paying my mother's taxes. The office was technically closed on the deadline and couldn't take them from my hand so I had to walk across the street and put them in the mail so they would get a postmark but arrive 4 days after the deadline.

[Silver Pines]

Welcome to the wonderful world of armchair generals.

@EC

 

[Silver Pines]

Exactly. Like paying my mother's taxes. The office was technically closed on the deadline and couldn't take them from my hand so I had to walk across the street and put them in the mail so they would get a postmark but arrive 4 days after the deadline.

@Cripplecreek

And those fools want to be trusted with our health care.

[EC]

@EC

 

Meh, you learn to laugh at them after a decade or so.  ^-^

[Cyber Liberty]

@JustPassinThru

I'll do what I damn well please, Skippy.  Got that?

Maybe you should have called him Slick, Sport or Scooter?

[Cripplecreek]

@Cripplecreek

And those fools want to be trusted with our health care.

There was a time when places not served by a post office did have a place for people to collect their mail. Here in my little town the mail was delivered to the train depot in the early days. The Waltons got their mail at Godsey's general store.

[Silver Pines]

Maybe you should have called him Slick, Sport or Scooter?

@Cyber Liberty

Or Sparky?  All of those work for me, lol.

[Silver Pines]

There was a time when places not served by a post office did have a place for people to collect their mail. Here in my little town the mail was delivered to the train depot in the early days. The Waltons got their mail at Godsey's general store.

I remember that.  I'd be willing to bet there was some kind of collection point here, too.  My husband and his parents grew up down here...I'll have to ask.

[Cripplecreek]

Maybe you should have called him Slick, Sport or Scooter?

I'm kinda partial to Turd Blossom.

[Cyber Liberty]

I'm kinda partial to Turd Blossom.

It does flow rather trippingly from the tongue.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I'm kinda partial to Turd Blossom.

[Cripplecreek]

When I think Turd Burglar, I think more along the lines of Milo

[sneakypete]

Exactly. Like paying my mother's taxes. The office was technically closed on the deadline and couldn't take them from my hand so I had to walk across the street and put them in the mail so they would get a postmark but arrive 4 days after the deadline.

@Cripplecreek

Regulations are to a bureaucracy as water is to fish.

[Victoria33]

@CatherineofAragon

Since your husband is a mail carrier, that means you have pull and power.  I want you to tell all mail carriers who deliver mail to my house to get out and come ring the door bell because my Yorkie, Prissy, is having a fit behind the door barking because he is out there.  She wants to kiss him and go with him.  Handle this for me, okay?   

[Cyber Liberty]

@CatherineofAragon

Since your husband is a mail carrier, that means you have pull and power. 

I love you, Vic, so you have to let me savor that...your Goggies are so CUTE!

[JustPassinThru]

@JustPassinThru

I'll do what I damn well please, Skippy.  Got that?

Comment deleted.  Totally unacceptable.  Don't do it again.
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[txradioguy]

And I'm not "Skippy" either.

Address me properly or not at all.

And that is NOT a request.

[JustPassinThru]

Comment deleted.  Totally unacceptable.  Don't do it again.
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And the $¢hitt I was fed here, was?...