Is the Postal Service run by the Democrats?

Let's see--i can send a letter to Parados to tell him how goofy Okie's thread is for the price of a first class stamp (41 cents), or i can send it UPS for $15.50. Or i can send it Fed Ex for $16.75.

Hmmm . . .


Hmmm . . .


Somebody wanna help me with the math here?

Setanta wrote:

Let's see--i can send a letter to Parados to tell him how goofy Okie's thread is for the price of a first class stamp (41 cents), or i can send it UPS for $15.50. Or i can send it Fed Ex for $16.75.

Hmmm . . .


Hmmm . . .


Somebody wanna help me with the math here?

Hmmm.... then how come many people use UPS or Fed Ex to do it? Price is only one factor. There is such a thing as reliability, efficient door to door delivery, ease of detailed tracking, etc.

You guys making fun of Oklahoma, thanks, I have thick skin, have your fun, but just watch this scenario play out, then don't complain if I have to come back and tell you, "I told ya so." I am going to predict that I am not the only one saying this stuff, increasingly as people deal with it.

btw: we use the trucks at night to smuggle in latinos over the border, so they can vote illegally

I expected all you guys fun with this. If you love the Postal Service, wonderful, to each his own, but personally I have had more stuff slow and lost, by far, by sending with the Postal Service than any other service. This new rate setup is a bad one in my opinion, as confirmed by one of their own employees yesterday at the counter. Some of their little rules about what makes a mailing a letter, a flat, or whatever are actually quite hilarious. I do not predict it to last. If you guys love it, I am happy for you.

Idiocy is in the eye of the beholder. I reported your post, although these days, it may not elicit a response.

You allege that e-mail is free. Therefore, one can only assume that you get your electricity for free, that you get your internet connection for free, and that you got your computer for free. Otherwise, your e-mail is not free.

Sorry, i didn't realize that you would need to have things that simple explained to you.

Yahoo email is free, as is a wide variety of other provifers that offer email services.

so you are one of those that clicks the advertising?

Barnum was correct I suppose.

Setanta wrote:

Idiocy is in the eye of the beholder. I reported your post, although these days, it may not elicit a response.

You allege that e-mail is free. Therefore, one can only assume that you get your electricity for free, that you get your internet connection for free, and that you got your computer for free. Otherwise, your e-mail is not free.

Sorry, i didn't realize that you would need to have things that simple explained to you.

Indeed it is.

Here you, and every other poster here, are posting on an internet forum.

Most of us use computers to do that and have some sort of ISP in which they connect to the internet. They must have electricity or some way to recharge the batteries.

Yahoo email is free, as is a wide variety of other provifers that offer email services.

That is to those that already have computers, an internet connection and electricity...

Sorry, I didn't realize that you would need to have things that simple explained to you.

email is free.

so you are one of those that clicks the advertising?

Barnum was correct I suppose.

The only true free way to send a message these days are smoke signals. Gather some kindling and rub a couple of sticks together. Get a blanket and smoke away.

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The only true free way to send a message these days are smoke signals. Gather some kindling and rub a couple of sticks together. Get a blanket and smoke away.

Not free!

The wood costs money, so does the blanket, and there is an environmental cost as well.

TINSTAAFL, man!

Cycloptichorn

Yeah, I guess you're right. Nothing in life is free anymore.

Just an honest question. Am I the only one that woke up yesterday and decided to learn about the postal rates. I at first thought it had to be a joke, not the rise in rates, but the absolutely ridiculous rules to figure out what you are mailing: is it a "flat?" Or what is it? Measure it, then do the "flexibility" test. Ample instructions are provided if you have the time to do it. How thick is it? Get out your micrometers, people.

The reason I ask is it run by Democrats is, this had to be dreamed up by some bureaucrat that sat around in an office somewhere trying to justify his job. The man at the counter yesterday did not give the company line. He said it was the "death knell of the postal service, give it ten years at best."

The absolute stupidity of the rate schedules is mindboggling. But considering the vast majority of the budget is wages at the Postal Service, then maybe they want their people to have job security, standing at windows all day, explaining and serving the people, measuring the packages, doing the "flexibility" test, making change for oddball rates, the list is endless.

On second thought, maybe it was some union thug that dreamed this up, not some bureaucrat, still probably a Democrat. One thing is for sure, it is not anyone that understands the free market.

okie wrote:

I expected all you guys fun with this. If you love the Postal Service, wonderful, to each his own, but personally I have had more stuff slow and lost, by far, by sending with the Postal Service than any other service. This new rate setup is a bad one in my opinion, as confirmed by one of their own employees yesterday at the counter. Some of their little rules about what makes a mailing a letter, a flat, or whatever are actually quite hilarious. I do not predict it to last. If you guys love it, I am happy for you.

Yes, we all understand that Anecdotal Evidence trumps each and every form of Proof available.

It isn't that anyone loves the postal service (other than the band, who are not bad) but that you're so damned against this service, that, why, it's just too tempting not to argue against. You set yourself up for this sort of thing.

Cycloptichorn

I expected all you guys fun with this. If you love the Postal Service, wonderful, to each his own, but personally I have had more stuff slow and lost, by far, by sending with the Postal Service than any other service. This new rate setup is a bad one in my opinion, as confirmed by one of their own employees yesterday at the counter. Some of their little rules about what makes a mailing a letter, a flat, or whatever are actually quite hilarious. I do not predict it to last. If you guys love it, I am happy for you.