Comments on: Updated: ‘Conservatives’ Pine For Post Office

By: Mari Tyers

Mari Tyers — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:50:00 +0000

The postal workers in the small part of flyover country I inhabit are friendly as well. Perhaps the unfriendly atmosphere is due to the fact that the Pacific Northwest is more multicultural? [And liberal] That said, I still have more confidence in FedEX or UPS.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:19:44 +0000

In my case, the mail personnel in my town are friendly, rarely make a mistake but if they do, correct it quickly. Most of the men will trade jokes. However a friend of mine in the next town over found the mail for his block on his porch everyday for a couple of weeks for him to deliver, while his postal delivery lady, used the time to liaison with the postmaster. When it was discovered, the small town had more excitement than it had had in months.

[Maybe the Powers That Be have refrained from meddling with the small-town USPS? However, I live in a smallish place, in a liberal county. It could not get much worse.]

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:13:36 +0000

I read last piece about the post office also, but thought i would comment on this one. I dont disagree with your observations about the U.S Post Office, but stating the Postal Service in South Africa is superior?

C’mon now. Really. I lived in Pretoria from 2002 to 2006, and a sure fir way to have an item stolen (in that city at least) was to post it in the government operated postal service. It happened to me several times, until I wisened up and started using the private postal service there. In fact I recall an article in the Pretoria News in 2005 about the sad state of the S.A. postal service, and the lack of attention by the ANC to this.

[I left SA in 1995, when the SA PO was still quite civilized. Still, nowhere have I encountered the degree of label- envelope- and sheer fascistic regulation as in the US. The clerks are like cops.]

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:12:02 +0000

Please do not mistake my previous post as heaping praise on the USPS – it only concerns their relative placement in hell. The TSA, for example, is far worse to Americans and more routinely threatens them with arrest.

And Jim Ostrowski can talk about the “public education establishment” for glaring inefficiency – they CUT class size (why?) and where you used to have 1 teacher and 0.1 administrator 40 years ago, you now have 2 regular teachers, 1 “special ed” teacher, 0.5 “conselors”, and 1 bureaucrat – and
DECLINING test scores for more money!

SUCH IS THE NATURE OF GOVERNMENT – a jobs program where one person holds the bulb while numerous other parasites turn the ladder. Which is why I had to waste 2 weeks on what could have been 1.5 days of program review on a project.

[Still, by the logic of your previous post, we can’t discuss the one infraction b/c it is dwarfed by another.]

By: james huggins

james huggins — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:58:15 +0000

I have nothing to add here but I will anyway. I think you are getting soft. The Post Office is worse than you depict.

By: Jack Slater

Jack Slater — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:35:09 +0000

The founder of the The American Letter Mail Company smiles from the grave at the failure of the USPS.

http://lysanderspooner.org/node/21

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:16:31 +0000

Bravo! Multicultural Managerial State. Perfect. I couldn’t have said it better myself. Thank you.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:50:22 +0000

Compared to the TRILLIONS wasted on America’s senseless wars and the TRILLIONS gone into Fannie/Freddie/Sallie/Goldman-Sachs/Citigroup bankster bailouts, the Post Office is a relative beacon of efficiency. And, as for unfunded liabilities, try the Social Security / Medicare / Medicaid debacle. The USPS is just a petty pickpocket compared with some of the larger theives.