Re: Magnecor wires, cont.

[Brett Dikeman <brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net>]

At 1:17 PM -0700 4/16/99, Brandon Hull wrote:

>
>I'm just beside myself.  Why we even have a Federal post office is beyond
>me.

Well, among other things, it doesn't cost the government a dime(or 
the taxpayers.)  The USPS is entirely self-sufficient, which is 
pretty impressive, and they actually turn a profit(which annoys some 
people, since they raised the stamp again.)

Jokes about the USPS aside, they do something no one else can do at 
the moment.  I can pop something in the mail and it'll get to just 
about anywhere in the NE within 2-3, maybe 4 days max.  UPS or Fedex 
would cost me many, many times that.

I've only had one problem with the USPS...they mangled my W-2 form 
from an old employer.  They put it into a special plastic bag that 
contained all the pieces, and it arrived with a note basically 
saying, "Sorry, yhea, we messed up, our machine munched it...this 
only happens to X number of pieces of mail a year out of Y pieces of 
mail total"  Y was substantially bigger than X.  I think the number 
was somewhere around .01%.

BTW, US Postal Service employees actually have one of the lowest 
workplace violence rates.  It just that the USPS is one of the 
biggest employers in the US, so it -seems- like "so many" of them are 
"going postal"

When I was little, we used to have a driver who was a great guy...he 
always refused to give the mail to me...he'd insist on putting it in 
the box first and then letting me get it :)

We did notice one interesting phenomenon...some days we get only 
class 2 mail...some days we get only class 1 mail, etc.

Anyways, we are sooooo off topic now :)

Brett

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