Posted on 12/30/2009 8:36:10 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
And the next story is that some criminal Postal Employees steal drugs to sell on black market.
Or anyone else, eh? Everyone will run screaming like a girl.
Unless you can find a few Americans who care, as odd as you might find it, some American citizens are willing to stand up in the face of danger.
We’re building a memorial to some of them in Pennsylvania.
Yes, that is my mailman to a tee. Whenever I have to go to the post office to pick up a package, I almost always have to stand in a long line stretching to the parking lot while the postal employees complain about not making enough money and that we need a bigger post office. It’s hard to be sympathetic to their complaints when they don’t do their damn job. It’s not like my front door is hard to get to.
I doubt if you’re going to find a lot of heroes at the post office.
You know, I’ve often wondered why the PO hasn’t taken up Sunday delivery. Originally Sunday was a day off because of religious reasons - per God, Sunday is to be a day of rest.
It seems to me that for any government offices to not function on Sundays is establishment of religion and should be abolished. Open up all government offices on Saturdays and Sundays. Let the workers pick, by seniority, what days off they want. We pay to have the lights and so forth on over the weekends anyway. The other benefit, besides avoiding the dastardly appearance of establishment of religion, is that the rest of us wouldn’t have to take time off work from our jobs in the productive private sector in order to visit governmental offices to straighten out all the errors they make in their myriad taxation schemes and regulatory requirements.
I agree there’s validity to the idea in theory, but certainly not in practice. The government mentality and general method of operation would turn it into a horrific bureacratic nightmare overnight.
The theory isn’t bad, but the practical application is so absurd it’s almost comical. First, they’d be marked as targets by the terrorists planning to set off the biobombs, so they’d be bombing post offices, postal vehicles and shooting the mail carriers on sight. Second problem is the black market. Those carriers not wiped out by the terrorists would be targets for carjackings and robbery because the drug would have a great secondary market value because it’s in limited supply. But let’s say none of that happened. We then turn to the gross incompetence of the post office and government in general.
.....and why would we ANNOUNCE this plan to the world in the first place??
This absurdity has Janet Incompetano written all over it.
I know what you mean. But SOME sort of plan must be put in place.
We’ll only have overnight to act- the attack won’t even be noticed for at least 24 hours, maybe longer, then it must be confirmed. Once that happens you must push pills into the target population. You don’t have another day. From then on each hour delay pushes up the casualty curve, and people have not even begun to get sick yet, so a lot of energy is going to be spent convincing them.
I mistrust the USPS in this task, but I can’t think of a group of people with an existing distribution system, trucks, and shoe leather on the ground six days a week that could distribute the stuff. FedEx and UPS, maybe, if they called i a thousand more trucks from surrounding areas, but that would take time.
Maybe they’ll do training and testing to see what’s wrong, and President Palin can fix the bugs.
The mail carriers won’t do it.
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