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To: Lancey Howard

I just love videos of postal employees sorting mail while wearing headphones while listening to RAP. You just gotta know their minds are really on the task they are assigned.

The postal service has become nothing more than a political card in race relations that is held by the Democrat party.

I remember when I was a child in the 1950’s and our postman (David, a Hispanic man) could be predicted to give us our mail within a period of +/- 15 minutes every day. He walked his route 6 days a week. In the summer we always had a glass of cold water for him. He knew the names of everyone on his route and they all knew him. No one ever got the wrong mail!

The Zip code was introduced and nothing improved with the system. Then, the politically and racially correct postal service got little jeeps to ride around in to deliver mail. Next came an army of different postmen (excuse me...post persons) each day and you never knew who was delivering the mail that day.

As all of this was going on, the price of postage and services kept going up due to the increased costs the system incurred by astounding pay rates for people who did jobs that required very little intelligence.

Consequently, our postal system prides itself on it’s ability to run customers off and to deliver mail to the wrong mail boxes.

Now, they want to cut Saturday delivery out??????? What’s next? Mail only on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday?


62 posted on 01/22/2013 4:57:47 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: DH

Yes..... or at least on three alternate days.

The fact is, there is little mail. The business use has dwindled . Private mail communication is almost non existent.

The need for what you describe simply doesn’t exist in the manner it once did.


63 posted on 01/22/2013 5:02:49 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
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To: DH
Ever work in a post office? Those headphones solve several problems ~ intense boredom from doing repetitive tasks over and over and over and over all day long ~ AND keeping out the background noise. All that machinery is loud. Postal mail processing operations are an INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY.

The headphones have been demonstrated to improve productivity in that environment.

83 posted on 01/22/2013 6:47:22 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: DH
At the same time the volume of mail increased substantially ~ when you were a kid that carrier probably handled 200 pieces a day. Today's carrier, backed by mechanization, automation, computerization and improved work practice does 10 times that ~ easy, if she's young and healthy ~ and at least 7 times if she's old and crotchety and crippled.

His medical insurance will buy him new knees for his retirement!

84 posted on 01/22/2013 6:50:48 AM PST by muawiyah
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