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pxlboy

2009-12-14 05:43:06 PM

that explains the line...

no, only having a single cashier in the middle of the afternoon might explain it better.

jj325

2009-12-14 05:51:30 PM

Newman!

JerseyTim

2009-12-14 07:40:05 PM

And to think that in the past the Postal Service used to achieve such great heights.

Mr. Coffee Nerves

2009-12-14 07:52:07 PM

And to think today was the day I sent in all the SarahPac postage-paid return cards, each and every one taped to a brick.

ZAZ

2009-12-14 08:22:19 PM

Junk mail is mostly dead. I got four pieces of mail today, one with a check and three potentially useful. Very often I get nothing where three or four years ago I would have had several pieces of junk mail to throw away every day.

Thakh

2009-12-14 10:02:15 PM

And don't even think of all the BIE!

Stonerbloopers

2009-12-14 10:04:47 PM

Thakh: And don't even think of all the BIE!

I think you mean BISM...

Leggat

2009-12-14 10:06:47 PM

JerseyTim: And to think that in the past the Postal Service used to achieve such great heights.

Yea, those were the days, but now the district sleeps alone tonight.

Reverend Otis

2009-12-14 10:06:49 PM

Junk Mail is such a waste of resources. How much paper and ink is wasted every single day on people who don't even give a crap what you're trying to hock? The numbers would probably disgust me.

Hannibal222

2009-12-14 10:08:30 PM

Came here for the obvious references, leaving happy

niangelo

2009-12-14 10:10:17 PM

Leggat: JerseyTim: And to think that in the past the Postal Service used to achieve such great heights.

Yea, those were the days, but now the district sleeps alone tonight.

Frankly, I don't Gibbard damn.

Jument

2009-12-14 10:15:09 PM

ZAZ: Junk mail is mostly dead. I got four pieces of mail today, one with a check and three potentially useful. Very often I get nothing where three or four years ago I would have had several pieces of junk mail to throw away every day.

Seriously? On an average day we get so much junk mail it's ridiculous. Every company we don't have a credit card with wants to give me one, and every company we do have a credit card with wants me to buy insurance. And that's just for starters.

At the end of the week my recycling bin is so heavy my recycling guy probably checks it for gold bars just in case.

Thakh

2009-12-14 10:15:37 PM

Stonerbloopers: Thakh: And don't even think of all the BIE!

I think you mean BISM...

That's gonna be after it arrives.

Four Horsemen of the Domestic Dispute

2009-12-14 10:16:34 PM

Some will be important.

vudukungfu

2009-12-14 10:18:24 PM

Reverend Otis: Junk Mail is such a waste of resources

Like pop ups?
I'd like to say that if I rent one net flikx movie, They should send me a disc that I can install that will never, ever let me see another netflicks pop up for life.
Otherwise, they deserve a caulk punch.

colden46

2009-12-14 10:19:11 PM

Don't worry subby, someday people will like you enough to send you Christmas cards.

/gf sent out 50+ cards today

Stonerbloopers

2009-12-14 10:19:31 PM

Thakh: Stonerbloopers: Thakh: And don't even think of all the BIE!

I think you mean BISM...

That's gonna be after it arrives.

LOL. That didn't occur to me when I posted that.

Haoie

2009-12-14 10:20:53 PM

And they do urge you to post early.

I remember reading that New year's day is the busiest postal in Japan, with something like, well hundreds of millions of items on that day.

iamscotto

2009-12-14 10:21:25 PM

If it had someone with some business sense of running it, the USPS would charge extra in "peak" times of year like this just like real businesses tend to do when demand spikes but supply remains constant.

Junk mail is probably the only thing keeping the USPS solvent right now.

Englebert Slaptyback

2009-12-14 10:22:23 PM

Postal Service says today is busiest mailing day of year, with 84 million pieces, of which 83.99 million will be junk mail or bills

"Bills... Bills... Bills... Dangit, why do we keep getting Bill's mail?"

Yep. Mmmm-hmm.

fusillade762

2009-12-14 10:24:18 PM

I dropped off a Netflix envelope today around 5pm and could barely fit it in the box. Could have probably reached in and swiped a handful of mail if I were a less honest person.

MaudlinMutantMollusk

2009-12-14 10:27:03 PM

I call that Tuesday in my email inbox.

Englebert Slaptyback

2009-12-14 10:27:43 PM

fusillade762

I dropped off a Netflix envelope today around 5pm and could barely fit it in the box. Could have probably reached in and swiped a handful of mail if I were a less honest person.

I got to the mailbox just after you did. How can you rent that crap??

strathmeyer

2009-12-14 10:27:45 PM

pxlboy: that explains the line...

no, only having a single cashier in the middle of the afternoon might explain it better.

This. I drove down to the Rite Aid and bought what I needed and drove back to mail it.

ZAZ

2009-12-14 10:29:24 PM

Jument

I don't use credit cards so I never got the "you have a credit card so you should buy ___" mail. Offers for credit cards have dropped off a lot in the last two years.

I've read statistics showing that junk mail is dropping. It could be I've unintentionally changed my spending habits so I get on fewer mailing lists, exaggerating the decline.

bhcompy

2009-12-14 10:30:37 PM

Jument: ZAZ: Junk mail is mostly dead. I got four pieces of mail today, one with a check and three potentially useful. Very often I get nothing where three or four years ago I would have had several pieces of junk mail to throw away every day.

Seriously? On an average day we get so much junk mail it's ridiculous. Every company we don't have a credit card with wants to give me one, and every company we do have a credit card with wants me to buy insurance. And that's just for starters.

At the end of the week my recycling bin is so heavy my recycling guy probably checks it for gold bars just in case.

HSBC canceled my card earlier this year because I didn't use it, and now I'm getting offers for new HSBC cards. Spam mail isn't dead, that's for sure.

/mailed for my unemployment check today
//hope it doesn't get delayed

12-21-12

2009-12-14 10:31:39 PM

I'll submit a headline, and it wont be hard to read. It will be a natural headline, familiar it will seem. It will rally all the farkers, and trolls of the politics tab, its memes will resound throughout the tubes, throughout the day.

95629

2009-12-14 10:31:49 PM

If enough people didn't buy products from junk mail it wouldn't make financial sense to send it out.

Until then, don't get mad at the credit card companies. Get mad at your neighbor who actually signs up for all the crap they're offered.

Childish

2009-12-14 10:43:02 PM

Wrong, subby. It's 74 million junk pieces, and 10 million Netflix.

Lazakesau

2009-12-14 10:43:42 PM

I hope the postman doesn't wake me. I plan on sleeping in.

buckler

2009-12-14 10:48:51 PM

So, if we ban bills, we can significantly reduce the scope of the problem. I fully support this.

fusillade762

2009-12-14 10:50:09 PM

Englebert Slaptyback: fusillade762

I dropped off a Netflix envelope today around 5pm and could barely fit it in the box. Could have probably reached in and swiped a handful of mail if I were a less honest person.

I got to the mailbox just after you did. How can you rent that crap??

Actually, it was a recommendation from Farkers in a showbiz thread. Believe it or not.

/"Evolution"
//Entertaining, sort of a low rent "Ghostbusters"

The Invisible Sky Wizard

2009-12-14 10:50:20 PM

Nice moobs.

Gunny Walker

2009-12-14 10:57:56 PM

See this is what socialized mail will get you. You're going to have delivery rationing. Just wait until the rationing kicks in. Somebody will decide that we can't afford to deliver Grandma's CHRISTmas cards on Saturday. Then what's going happen? They should just let the free market handle the problem. And what do they do if they can't find or read the address? They just let it die. They just let Grandma's Christmas card die! They even have a whole dead letter office. Imagine that. Complete strangers deciding what to do with your CHRISTmas cards because they aren't competent enough to read your address.

And don't get me started about how we once fought against a stamp tax in this country. The socialists in the country will be the death of us all.

Welcome to you're doom!

Englebert Slaptyback

2009-12-14 11:03:27 PM

The Invisible Sky Wizard

That was you?

No - I don't have two rectangular black eyes.

I'm also a regular Adonis, but since I'm on Fark that should go without saying.

The Invisible Sky Wizard

2009-12-14 11:12:42 PM

Englebert Slaptyback: The Invisible Sky Wizard

That was you?

No - I don't have two rectangular black eyes.

I'm also a regular Adonis, but since I'm on Fark that should go without saying.

I'll be the judge of that. Meet me behind the post office in 26 minutes.

Antilope

2009-12-14 11:50:11 PM

Old joke. The Post Office was going to release a George Bush stamp but decided not to because people didn't now which side to spit on.

MC O'Brien

2009-12-14 11:54:56 PM

/Too obscure?

Obama's Subtle Coup

2009-12-15 12:04:23 AM

and now i see why.

nstoppiello

2009-12-15 12:51:29 AM

niangelo: Leggat: JerseyTim: And to think that in the past the Postal Service used to achieve such great heights.

Yea, those were the days, but now the district sleeps alone tonight.

Frankly, I don't Gibbard damn.

It's okay - soon we'll be able to start a brand new colony.

/Just keeping it alive

Betenoreus

2009-12-15 01:22:51 AM

84 million would create a pile of such great heights...

frostus

2009-12-15 01:30:46 AM

I use the USPS only when absolutely necessary. The sooner those dickheads go under the better.

Bathia_Mapes

2009-12-15 01:58:56 AM

The only real junk mail I get is from auto insurance companies, most promising me a low price because of my accident-free driving record. However, not only am I legally blind and don't drive, but I haven't owned a car since the late 1980s.

That being said, the bus I take home from work goes by the downtown Eugene post office. The traffic was insane today and I don't even want to think how bad it was inside the post office.

Jument

2009-12-15 02:18:31 AM

frostus: I use the USPS only when absolutely necessary. The sooner those dickheads go under the better.

What the hell? They deliver real damn fast, for cheap. Why would you hate them?

/boggle

frostus

2009-12-15 03:41:00 AM

Jument: What the hell? They deliver real damn fast, for cheap.

When they feel like delivering something other than junk mail and stacks of flyers. My local post office has been screwing with me and the delivery of packages to my house this year. I don't know why but I've already lodged a complaint and later in the week I'll be up there wringing some douchebag's neck if they don't get their shiat straightened out.

Jamieboy

2009-12-15 05:36:29 AM

I was in the post office on Saturday to pick up a package. There had to be at least 40 to 50 people in line, with one window open. Very angry crowd. They used to have a special door you could go to to pick up packages, but they don't do it any longer. One lady was so pissed off after waiting in line for 40 minutes, she banged on the office door and demanded they open another window. The beast who answered the door, the one with 15" finger nails, told her to get back in line and keep her mouth shut. The crowd got angrier. I gave up and went home because I had to pee. Went back yesterday morning, right at opening time, and the line was already out the door, with only one window open. 1 hour, 20 minutes wait time. Disgusting.

Ed Finnerty

2009-12-15 06:48:46 AM

frostus: My local post office has been screwing with me and the delivery of packages to my house this year.

dtdstudios.com

Snarcoleptic_Hoosier

2009-12-15 08:16:24 AM

Jamieboy: I was in the post office on Saturday to pick up a package. There had to be at least 40 to 50 people in line, with one window open. Very angry crowd. They used to have a special door you could go to to pick up packages, but they don't do it any longer. One lady was so pissed off after waiting in line for 40 minutes, she banged on the office door and demanded they open another window. The beast who answered the door, the one with 15" finger nails, told her to get back in line and keep her mouth shut. The crowd got angrier. I gave up and went home because I had to pee. Went back yesterday morning, right at opening time, and the line was already out the door, with only one window open. 1 hour, 20 minutes wait time. Disgusting.

/Not so cool story, Bro

texasjoe

2009-12-15 09:00:34 AM

Mandatory OT rocks! They were still running outbound states mail at five o'clock this morning. Normally that mail is already processed and sent out by two AM.

I mail my preapproved credit card applications back minus the application. The PO needs the revenue and the CC companies are pillaging their card holders.

soupgoblin

2009-12-15 10:43:52 AM

iamscotto: If it had someone with some business sense of running it, the USPS would charge extra in "peak" times of year like this just like real businesses tend to do when demand spikes but supply remains constant.

Junk mail is probably the only thing keeping the USPS solvent right now.

I get maybe 3 pieces of important mail a week(, and about 2-5 lbs of junk mail. I was planning on sending all the junk mail senders a bill for trash removal and see if they stop, or possibly save it and send it back COD.

Junk mail and email spamers can choke on a barb wire covered cock

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