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Congress votes to force Postal Service to keep Saturday delivery
Yahoo News ^ | 03/21/2013 | By Elvina Nawaguna

Posted on 03/21/2013 1:16:11 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

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To: NEMDF

See my snarky post 38.

I know meds are sent by mail all the time, but I can’t beleive ANYONE would trust the post office to deliver critical life or death meds that gotta be delivered or else.

Puh-leaze.


41 posted on 03/21/2013 1:56:41 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: muawiyah; Dead Corpse

The USPS has had a 700% increase in efficiency since it was founded. Have you done as well?

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I know you didn’t ask me, but I can safely answer yes. I am pretty sure Dead Corpse didn’t lose 16 billion dollars last year.


42 posted on 03/21/2013 2:01:50 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

DUDE: Have you heard that the medication vendors determine what mailing service is used? Seemingly the USPS is the least expensive, so that is what they use. It is not a choice (and should not be a cost) of the recipient.


43 posted on 03/21/2013 2:02:13 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Venturer

Six day a week is a big deal in certain cases like rural patients who have limited access to pharmacy services, don’t have a P.O. box and rely on mail-order for their prescriptions But while rural delivery isn’t as profitable as urban I think the issues facing the post office have more to do with fiscal accountability, changing technology and being slow to adjust to changing demographics. Being forced to fund your own retirement benefits for 75 years doesn’t help.


44 posted on 03/21/2013 2:02:34 PM PDT by erlayman
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To: Responsibility2nd
Snarky = true characterization.
45 posted on 03/21/2013 2:04:44 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Responsibility2nd
The Postal Service, which lost $16 billion last year,

Chicken feed...Obama pisses more than that away...every day.
Probably spends more than that on golf...every week.
Spills more than that on the bar...every month.

46 posted on 03/21/2013 2:04:51 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: NEMDF

Then your problem is not with the post office and Saturday delivery.

Its with your medication providers.


47 posted on 03/21/2013 2:05:36 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: NEMDF
Look up Snarky in the dictionary.

Look. Thats Me!

48 posted on 03/21/2013 2:08:36 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I don’t want or use any U.S. Postal “service”. The only time I use that is to communicate with the IRS or my state taxing authority - which I don’t want either and intend to stop.


49 posted on 03/21/2013 2:09:50 PM PDT by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Congress lost the money ~ not USPS.


50 posted on 03/21/2013 2:12:10 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Responsibility2nd

That was my interpretation of snarky.... Kind of acidic but not fundamentally mean or cruel. Does that describe you?


51 posted on 03/21/2013 2:32:43 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Responsibility2nd

The people who increasingly shop for almost everything online care. junk mailers are not the only ones making their living by post.

Your assertion that “no one” cares is not accurate.


52 posted on 03/21/2013 2:33:13 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Responsibility2nd

My local post office can’t even buy new light bulbs or replace broken ceiling tiles.


53 posted on 03/21/2013 2:41:52 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: muawiyah

A loss of $16 billion does not indicate an increase in efficiency. Try calculating that again.


54 posted on 03/21/2013 2:52:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
An increase from about 30 billion pieces of mail to over 200 billion pieces of mail with essentially the same number of workers over several decades DOES indicate some serious improvements in productivity ~ that is EFFICIENCY.

You need to brush up on math.

55 posted on 03/21/2013 2:53:56 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: TexasCajun
We did a survey on what that means years ago. It seems that people rated the crummiest buildings the highest ~ they approved of paint falling off the walls, rough wooden floors, broken lights, drafty lobbies.

Sparkling new buildings with good stuff were always rated the lowest.

56 posted on 03/21/2013 2:55:53 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Responsibility2nd

Back when they came up with the idea of sending dope by mail my instinctive response was “let’s not do that. We’ll just buy into the complaint cycle of the pharmaceutical industry’ ~ and there it is.


57 posted on 03/21/2013 2:57:53 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: righttackle44

Fed Ex, UPS, there are alternatives just as reliable if not more so.


58 posted on 03/21/2013 3:04:04 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
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To: aimhigh
The provision was sponsored by the GOP, though.
59 posted on 03/21/2013 3:05:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’ll bet if you look at the breakdown of the votes, you’ll see the “leadership” sided with the Rats again. Now, on to the comments where many have made this guess.


60 posted on 03/21/2013 3:09:47 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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