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Thursday, March 11, 2010
You might consider discarding your cell phone…
After watching this video. Perhaps you have seen it already? I hadn’t. While the participants seem quite amused I had a different reaction; sheer terror. This video has a sort of HG Wells meets Orson Welles “War of the Worlds” element going on. Microwaves are us.
Watch this - click HERE:
OK, and here’s the link that disproves it all: click HERE:
I’m so gullible. That reminds me. I actually believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass distraction based on evidence as flimsy as that cell phone video. I’m so naive.
Vick Mickunas
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A letter from a rural mail carrier…
I wrote a post last week that asked readers how they feel about the US Postal Service. There were some interesting responses. To read the original thread click HERE:
Then read this recent comment from someone who actually works for the post office. You might find it informative.
“I just wandered onto this website and have been reading some of the ridiculous comments made by some really misinformed people. As a 16 year postal employee, I would like to comment on a few things from experience.
First of all, TRS, you don’t subsidize the USPS. They have been self-sustaining for more than 35 years. You pay for your postage and that in turn pays for the services we provide. Check your facts before you write, your tax dollars do not support the USPS.
For all the people who had one problem with a package or got a piece of someone elses mail: if you had any idea of the amount of mail and parcels that are handled every day, you would be amazed that you only had a problem with ONE item. Why is it that ultra sensitive and oh so “perfect” people don’t allow one error before throwing the baby out with the bath water?
“I got a piece of the neighbor’s mail so we need to shut the postal service down!” People, except Vick, have no clue what the process is like to get your mail where it needs to go. Go ahead and go with UPS or FedEx. It is only a matter of time until they mess up a parcel for you and then you will have to bash them too. Not to mention there prices are outrageous and try as you may, you will never get them to deliver your letter mail.
Then there is the small problem of the approximately 800,000 people employed by the USPS. What kind of impact do you think shutting us down or privatizing would do to them and their families? If you want to do some research, see how Japan is liking life with their postal service in the private sector now. Oh, and see how much it costs them to send a first class letter.
We still have the cheapest postage rates in the WORLD. If we go private, there will be independant businesses with competing stamp prices and just see what kind of service you get when they pay the employees $9.00 per hour to do what we do now, especially in bad weather. We work in snowstorms, ice storms, thunderstorms, you name it, they do not let us off for weather unless it is paralyzing to the entire area.
I need to say kudos to you, ‘downsized’. All postal employees everywhere would appreciate your kind comments. Thank you for noticing the effort we put in to get your mail to you. I wish more people could see first hand what we dedicate ourselves to do for our customers. I go above and beyond what I am required to do for my customers every week and I’m sorry but I just get tired of that handful of people who whine about one piece of mail among the thousands of pieces we sort daily that gets delivered incorrectly or lost.”
1Rural Carrier
How do you feel about US Postal Service now?
Vick Mickunas
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