Tag: Thanks Post Office!
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General Delivery
Our idiot “mayor” and grotesque brainless “council” have passed a new “law” telling businesses to avoid asking for addresses on new employees. Supposedly this will make it easier to hire the homeless. I doubt it. First reaction: WOKE SHIT! Second reaction: Well, like much of the woke shit in education, this is actually a return…
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Postal employee GETS IT.
One of the post office employees in the USPS reddit section writes: = = = = = We no longer have overnight shipping? The best we have is 2 day “express”, which is the same price as overnight shipping was. At my facility now we also hold outgoing mail until the next day. I’m so…
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Should be charging for value!
Lately I’ve been browsing the reddit section for Post Office employees. Mostly inscrutable tech talk about PTMA and Form 3517B and Amended RMD2. Some interesting stories about good or bad customers, some encouraging advice from oldtimers to newbies, and occasional inputs from non-employees. One of the latter is a smart idea, and it’s the sort…
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Don’t spoil a good thing
A grammarian type on Substack is complaining that da yoots are calling LP records “vinyls”. I used to worry about such things because I’m a natural proofreader, and I used to “correct” people. I finally learned to stop. “Correction” is ALWAYS counterproductive. It doesn’t work and it only irritates the pig. You can’t apply logic…
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It’s all Duane Jones
When you favor or oppose an action for reasons that don’t align 100% with Team A or Team B, it’s much harder to maintain your own opinion. I had this trouble with bitcoin. I oppose it for solid experience-based reasons. I was a bookkeeper for years, so I know how real ledgers work. Bitcoin is…
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Elon vs FDR
Elon is cutting vast amounts of federal bureaucracy, or at least attempting to do it. He has no official role, so courts would be fully justified in rejecting all of his cuts. SYLLOGISM. FIRST PREMISE: We know that Elon will never cut war or tyranny, the only federal FUNCTIONS that need to be eliminated. He…
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Government and profit
Why I enjoy reading Wolf Richter and his experienced commenters, yet again: Wolf discusses the Elonic order to clear out unused government office space. Wolf shows that the feds do in fact own and lease a LOT of unnecessary real estate. About 7000 buildings are vacant and many more are part vacant. Some commenters wonder…
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Belated mystery
Listening to these Postal Service training films brings back a memory of a situation that I didn’t question at the time, but seems puzzling now. In 1978 I worked night shift for a quasi-private part of OU in Norman. This “business” ran two facilities on the OU campus. One was the Conference Center at the…
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Lazy is best.
Following on this item and this item on the importance of MECHANICAL government. = = = = = Good businesses and good rulers are LAZY as well as mechanical. The two go together. When you make a process mechanical it’s affordable and easy to use. When everything is custom-made and ’boutique’, everything is expensive and…
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Mechanical is better
A passionate defense of informal justice by Michael Moore: = = = = = START QUOTE: Yes, I condemn murder, and that’s why I condemn America’s broken, vile, rapacious, bloodthirsty, unethical, immoral health care industry and I condemn every one of the CEOs who are in charge of it and I condemn every politician who…
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Flipping their duties
Trump will appoint an AI and Bitcoin Czar to steer the government toward funding and encouraging those activities. In plain language, the government will now be funding and encouraging massive copyright theft, job destruction, and perpetual motion swindles. For 200 years the copyright and patent offices, the post office, and other regulators, have been trying…
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Not accidental
I was reading a defense of the Canadian system of postal codes, which is part alphabetic and part numeric. One example is X0E 0R8 for a region in Northwest Territories. The writer claimed that part-alpha is easier to remember. Nope. When our post office established Zip Codes, they chose 5 numbers. As far as I…
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How to regain trust
Elites periodically engage in fake superficial gestures toward reform. Right now, predictably, we’re seeing a few of these fakes. An editorial in “Nature” magazine shows the fakeness. Science must regain trust by fighting the people who distrust it. = = = = = START QUOTE: Make no mistake, the political assaults on science stem largely…
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Henry Wallace is smiling
Alexandra Fasulo has been starting up a small farm, and reports frequently on Substack about problems and blessings. She finds the USDA is a huge blessing, ready to provide all sorts of material assistance and information to new and old farmers. Henry Wallace would be proud. He built the USDA into a massive servant of…
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HR from the past
This film was aimed at recruiting new postal employees. It starts by reading the inscription on the entrance of the main office in DC, with a couple of additions: = = = = = START QUOTE: The postal service. Messenger of sympathy and love. Servant of parted friends. Consoler of the lonely. Bond of a…
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