If only there was a way for the USPS to sell more stamps.

Because nothing says environmentally-friendly like stuffing my mailbox full of junk ads with coupons for crappy chain pizza and credit card offers.

Oh my. Where will I go to send a package? Can't I just give it to my local postal delivery person?

I heard that the community college here is bragging about how 'eco friendly' they are going to be by not sending anything to students via mail and instead doing it by email.

They say the cost associated with the old fashioned way has 'nothing' to do with it.

My favorite way to go green is to not use CFLs.

They should have come out with the "Go Green" stamps today.

I submitted this with a better headline.

In 1990.

CheekyMunky: what does "blow a reefer" mean?

I believe it is meant to be simlar to that old playground/bathroom favorite, "Save a tree, eat a beaver." Blow = slang for smoke I guess.

/residnet pHD in Freep Humor Studies

I went to the PO yesterday and purchased some stamps.. they handed me a sheet of the "green" ones. They look like something you'd pull out of the middle of a HighLights or RangerRick magazine. They don't even look like stamps.

I wanted the fake Vegas Statue of Liberty stamps but they didn't have any.

Scooters conspicuously absent. Even a 250 class, which is considered to be a "big bore" gets 60mpg and is a hellavuh lot more fun than a cage

BillSmith70: I wish the USPS would release "Out of Business" signs at all their buildings.

Why?

BillSmith70: I wish the USPS would release "Out of Business" signs at all their buildings.

I was just thinking the other day, "wouldn't it be great to have less shipping options? Instead of just shipping this, I could drive 20 miles out of my way to the nearest FedEx depot and stand in a line." A man can dream I suppose.

I always liked the "Save the Planet" bumper sticker, always on the back of a Lincoln Navigator or similar huge SUV... Gotta love Montgomery County, MD.

BillSmith70: DarnoKonrad: BillSmith70: I wish the USPS would release "Out of Business" signs at all their buildings.

I was just thinking the other day, "wouldn't it be great to have less shipping options? Instead of just shipping this, I could drive 20 miles out of my way to the nearest FedEx depot and stand in a line." A man can dream I suppose.

In reality, more shipping options would be created.


Oh I'm sure a new place would open in every little podunk town just like the USPS has.

BillSmith70: In reality, more shipping options would be created.

Wouldn't there be problems with regional monopolies on shipping small items and undeserving rural areas?

It is much more expensive to provide services in areas with low population density, isn't it?

Yes, but how much CO,CO2, NOx, etc. is being spewed out of a coal plant to power your computer

If you truly care about the planet you will use as much paper as possible and never recycle it. Paper is mostly made from trees grown on tree farms for that specific purpose. Younger trees grow faster than older ones so continually planting new trees as the old ones are cut down is the most efficient way of removing carbon from the atmosphere. By burying the paper from these trees in landfills you are sequestering carbon.

tl;dr
Kill a tree.
Save the planet.

BillSmith70:

Maybe you could start your own business to "help" these "poor" rural people?

Why? The postal service already does.

BillSmith70: DarnoKonrad: BillSmith70: DarnoKonrad: BillSmith70: I wish the USPS would release "Out of Business" signs at all their buildings.

I was just thinking the other day, "wouldn't it be great to have less shipping options? Instead of just shipping this, I could drive 20 miles out of my way to the nearest FedEx depot and stand in a line." A man can dream I suppose.

In reality, more shipping options would be created.


Oh I'm sure a new place would open in every little podunk town just like the USPS has.

No, only to places where people are willing to pay for it.

Maybe you could start your own business to "help" these "poor" rural people?

I love a good morning dose of Libertarianism in the morning.

BillSmith70: In reality, more shipping options would be created.

Why do you hate the Constitution of the United States?


space1701: By burying the paper from these trees in landfills you are sequestering carbon.

I suppose if you ignore the carbon emissions and other pollution from planting, harvesting, transporting, processing, pulping, bleaching, forming, packaging, transporting, processing, printing, transporting and finally more transporting and more processing for disposal in a landfill.... yeah that still doesn't make any sense because the carbon is equally sequestered as long as the tree lives.

tl;dr: You didn't think your cunning plan all the way through.
=Smidge=

Pants full of macaroni!!: the_falling_duck: BillSmith70: In reality, more shipping options would be created.

Wouldn't there be problems with regional monopolies on shipping small items and undeserving rural areas?

It is much more expensive to provide services in areas with low population density, isn't it?

Why do you hate capitalism America^TM?

ftfy

DarnoKonrad: BillSmith70:

Maybe you could start your own business to "help" these "poor" rural people?

Why? The postal service already does.

Some people don't believe that you should do difficult or unprofitable things for the general betterment of the nation as a whole. They prefer to only invest resources in the most "worthy" areas, and the rest can go to hell.

These people, for obvious reasons, should not be allowed to run a first-world nation. They would have been against rural electrification.

DarnoKonrad: BillSmith70:

Maybe you could start your own business to "help" these "poor" rural people?

Why? The postal service already does.

You don't understand. Bill only wants the government to provide services to people who form communities large enough to pay for it directly. Government is a for-profit venture, y'know.

While we're at it, those people out in the country who want law enforcement? Fark them, if they want to not have meth labs in the woods behind their house they should move to a city like smart people.

Yeah. The telephone.

LasersHurt: These people, for obvious reasons, should not be allowed to run a first-world nation. They would have been against rural electrification.

I guess it all depends on how its applied...

LasersHurt: DarnoKonrad: BillSmith70:

Maybe you could start your own business to "help" these "poor" rural people?

Why? The postal service already does.

Some people don't believe that you should do difficult or unprofitable things for the general betterment of the nation as a whole. They prefer to only invest resources in the most "worthy" areas, and the rest can go to hell.

These people, for obvious reasons, should not be allowed to run a first-world nation. They would have been against rural electrification.

And it is funny that they would be against public works that provide better access to the marketplace for more people.

Nothing like coming together to lower barriers to entry, isn't it? This is why a minimum universal standard of HC, Highspeed internet access, and more equal high school class options should be priority of both 'leftists' and freemarketeers.

Brad_Will: DarnoKonrad: BillSmith70:

Maybe you could start your own business to "help" these "poor" rural people?

Why? The postal service already does.

You don't understand. Bill only wants the government to provide services to people who form communities large enough to pay for it directly. Government is a for-profit venture, y'know.

While we're at it, those people out in the country who want law enforcement? Fark them, if they want to not have meth labs in the woods behind their house they should move to a city like smart people.

But dirty liberals live in cities!

Anti_illuminati: LasersHurt: These people, for obvious reasons, should not be allowed to run a first-world nation. They would have been against rural electrification.

I guess it all depends on how its applied...

That guy is what's known as a "Hillbilly Electrician."

The guy who is trolling you right now: Ironically, most scholars now understand that rural electrification was a waste. It was just another of FDR's makework boondoggle projects, wasteful government spending that prolonged the Great Depression for ten years beyond the automatic correction of the free market.

Heh.

3/10

The guy who is trolling you right now: Ironically, most scholars now understand that rural electrification was a waste. It was just another of FDR's makework boondoggle projects, wasteful government spending that prolonged the Great Depression for ten years beyond the automatic correction of the free market.

And yes, we have UPS, we have FedEx, we have no need (and really never did) for the socialist USPS.

Christ. Is this supposed to be witty?

/need more coffee i guess

BillSmith70: DarnoKonrad: BillSmith70:

Maybe you could start your own business to "help" these "poor" rural people?

Why? The postal service already does.

Yeah, at the expense of taxpayers.

Heh, just another example of Republicans against their own interests.

the_falling_duck: BillSmith70: I wish the USPS would release "Out of Business" signs at all their buildings.

Why?

Because he hates the constitution

USPS should be privatized just like in Europe and allow competition.

90% of government should be privatized, with the largest exception being at the Federal level because well the DOD and oversight agencies do something, local law enforcement excluded as well. For the most part local government should consist of a small finance/legal staff that bid out contracts to the private world.

Much smaller much cheaper and no long term retirement/benefit expenses.

Use "go green" stamps, and feel superior even if you are doing nothing else to go green.

BillSmith70: Anti_illuminati: BillSmith70: DarnoKonrad: BillSmith70:

Maybe you could start your own business to "help" these "poor" rural people?

Why? The postal service already does.

Yeah, at the expense of taxpayers.

Heh, just another example of Republicans against their own interests.

Since that is not my interest and I'm not a republican, do you even have a point?

Well, I'd love to elaborate, but I don't engage in those that don a tinfoil hat.

If the USPS was serious about going green, they would abolish the bulk rate system. The very concept is antithetical to being green.

As an added benefit, they would get rid of the biggest cause of unprofitability for the USPS.

BillSmith70: DarnoKonrad: BillSmith70:

Maybe you could start your own business to "help" these "poor" rural people?

Why? The postal service already does.

Yeah, at the expense of taxpayers.

Oh,

BillSmith70: Smidge204: BillSmith70: In reality, more shipping options would be created.

Why do you hate the Constitution of the United States?

Because I never signed it, nor do I agree with it.

Plus, it is not followed anyway so your point is moot.

I didn't realize it was

BillSmith70: Really? Care to elaborate why I'm against someone using electricity?

Troll time

BillSmith70: In order for any government to exist, it has to steal wealth and murder those who resist.

Do I need to pay the Troll toll?

Lt_Ryan: private world.

Much smaller much cheaper and no long term retirement/benefit expenses.

Why do private contracts = cheaper?

BillSmith70: LasersHurt: DarnoKonrad: BillSmith70:

Maybe you could start your own business to "help" these "poor" rural people?

Why? The postal service already does.

Some people don't believe that you should do difficult or unprofitable things for the general betterment of the nation as a whole. They prefer to only invest resources in the most "worthy" areas, and the rest can go to hell.

These people, for obvious reasons, should not be allowed to run a first-world nation. They would have been against rural electrification.

Really? Care to elaborate why I'm against someone using electricity?

No, I don't care to bite on your troll.

BillSmith70: derp

And this, my friends, is why libertarianism is a complete and utter failure of a political ideology that will never ever gain widespread popular support.

BillSmith70 Yeah, at the expense of taxpayers.

Citation needed. The last time the USPS received direct Federal money from taxes was 1882. USPS does, from time to time, receive subdized loans from the Government, but recently those loans have been required do Congress' decision relating to pension and medical funding.