that explains the line...

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

Newman!

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

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.

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.

I call that Tuesday in my email inbox.

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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