Tag: Thanks Post Office!
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Compete by tradition, not by innovation
People who should know better are pushing Innovative Disruption. Each city and country “must” compete to enrich Sam Altman and destroy civilization. NO. Competing to make Sam Altman richer will make you poorer and lose everything that makes you special. If you want to improve your OWN city or country, boost and expand your OWN…
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SOE and Studie
Here’s a new thought after rereading the history of Studebaker for the 100th time. Albert Erskine took over as CEO in 1918. Under his rule Studie prospered and handed most of the prosperity to shareholders. Erskine believed in paying the stock criminals first and letting the company (facilities, workers, development) have the leftovers. Some of…
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Good idea, can’t happen
Compact Mag has a good idea. Because it’s a good idea, it can’t happen. Defense contractors deal only with the government. All of their income and business comes FROM the taxpayers, but their profit goes TO the executives and Larry Fink. This is the worst of both worlds. They take from the taxpayer and give…
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Bezos vs civilization
The Post Office is in direct competition with FedEx, UPS, Amazon, etc. Now the competition has turned violent in Everett, part of the Seattle metro. National “news” garbles the story as usual. Here’s a more direct report from Everett. The postman was delivering to a set of boxes for an apartment building. Following rules, he…
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He also recognizes
Continuing the theme of State-Owned Enterprises, the latest Post Office podcast is an interview with new Postmaster General Steiner. The first part of the interview is the usual biography and corporate buzztalk about logistics and execution. The salient part starts around 20 minutes, where Steiner points out the unique qualities of a regulated monopoly or…
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Do they recognize their advantage?
Responding to the Repooflican crusade against the Post Office, I’ve been trying to point out that the PO is NOT funded by taxpayers. It’s a business like other freight carriers, depending on income from stamps and shipments. If Repooflicans were serious about opposing government overreach, they would be CHEERING for the PO instead of trying…
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Sign of sanity
Reported in an official newsletter. While most of “congress” plays its usual pointless symbol games with nonexistent “debt ceilings” and nonexistent “shutdowns,” some reps in BOTH parties are organizing to protect and improve the Post Office. They’re concerned that the previous ‘Delivering For America’ agenda is leading to more delays and more costs, not better…
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Things endure
Looking through old Billboard mags while chasing elusive info about Western Union’s public fax machines, ran across a permanent memorial to the last moment of sanity before political lunacy resumed. In Dec 1945 the treasury issued the FDR dime. Billboard, serving coin-op vendors, was concerned that the dime wouldn’t fit current machines, but the treasury…
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Start with quality.
Last week I wrote up a contest between the first coast-to-coast airmail flight and a group of Essex cars. The cars won. Hudson touted the event in a 1922 pamphlet which omits the airmail comparison entirely. By this account the project was originated by the Post Office in an attempt to widen the range of…
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Watchclock 2.0
The latest Post Office podcast discusses a massive increase in mail thefts since the Trump torture camp. When most people were relying on mail and Amazon and DoorDash, organized crime grabbed the opportunity. Mail thefts, mostly for IDs and checks, increased by a factor of 2. Armed robberies of postmen increased by a factor of…
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Another Post Office anniversary today
Yesterday was Neither Snow nor Rain Day. Today is also a notable point on the PO timeline. The Post Office podcasts feature several Firsts or attempted Firsts in postal transportation, including the first balloon flight in 1859. The PO could define routes and transport methods as suitable for mail. Every new development was soon postalized,…
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Neither Snow Nor Rain Day
Today is Neither Snow Nor Rain Day. Far as I can tell the post office isn’t noting this on its websites, so I’ll do it here. Never miss an opportunity to salute and thank the PO! The day started when the NYC PO was dedicated on 9/7/1914. The famous slogan is over the door of…
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Parcel hoverpost
One of the Post Office podcasts mentioned this. The real thing is even more impressive than the description. An organization required to deliver to ALL THE PEOPLE finds unusual solutions for extreme cases. This hovercraft has served in the remote parts of Alaska for many years. Like a train, it stops at the same place…
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Postal inspectors score again!
In yesterday’s random item I repetitively mentioned the obviously fraudulent nature of the Gaian cult. It serves the billionaires and nobody else. Here’s a WOW moment. The Postal Inspection Service has caught one of the biggest fraudsters EVER. Joe Sanberg, leading Dem activist, headed a “green investment” firm that claimed to be planting trees in…
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We should…
We should be giving just as much respect to the regular postman as we do to police and fire. Obviously he doesn’t face life-or-death danger all the time, but he serves EVERYONE in a different way. The regular carrier on a route KNOWS THE NEIGHBORHOOD BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE. He knows most people by name…
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