Comments on: How the post office made America

By: Tripwhipper

Tripwhipper — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 04:04:19 +0000

The USPS, along with scores of other government agencies, should be abolished. It serves no national purpose anymore, and is an enormous waste of natural resources.

By: crrr6

crrr6 — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 02:18:50 +0000

I’m not sure why we need most post office buildings anymore. Seems like Blockbuster-style, self-serve kiosks with a bin for parcels ought to do it.

By: astonerii

astonerii — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 01:39:21 +0000

astonerii why are you so sarcasm-challenged?

JFKY on February 9, 2013 at 8:19 PM

I knew it was sarcasm… But other people on this site tend to dislike me enough to use anything against me.

By: JFKY

JFKY — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 01:19:52 +0000

astonerii why are you so sarcasm-challenged?

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 01:00:32 +0000

I am not dismissive of the Post Office. But it must be able to survive logically and effectively, not just floated out of nostalgia.

By: astonerii

astonerii — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:58:47 +0000

including veterans and African-Americans,

astonerii why do you have veterans and African-Americans, so?

JFKY on February 9, 2013 at 7:53 PM

I do not hate either.
It is just that it is hard to find much good to say about a group of people who start work at 7 am, deliver mail until about 9:30, then spend the next 4 to 5 hours hanging out finally to deliver mail til about 5 and then charge 2 hours over time.

I witnessed it in 3 different cities so far. I really love the one delivery person we have at our current place, even after having been caught 3 times already lying about delivering to our place she still gets to do our deliveries.

By: JFKY

JFKY — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:53:06 +0000

including veterans and African-Americans,

astonerii why do you have veterans and African-Americans, so?

By: astonerii

astonerii — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:49:35 +0000

The problem with the post office is that it was unioninzed and that led to its over sized workforce, its over paid lazy good for nothings and their superior to private retirement plans, which makes it non cost effective. The only way it can remain in business is through government making up for its failures.

Sure, until about 1960 it was a great thing. After the 1980s it became a detriment to the nation.

By: Jeff Weimer

Jeff Weimer — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:49:14 +0000

For millions of workers, including veterans and African-Americans, a job at the post office has been a ticket to the middle class and has provided a pension and medical care to retirees. The Postal Service is the country’s second largest civilian employer, after Walmart.

It’s there to provide a service, not a sinecure.

By: JFKY

JFKY — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:48:36 +0000

The musket made America too, as did cattle ranching, and subsistence farming, also the buggy and buggy whip, the telegraph, and Colt .44 Navy….

Is there a point to this…also SLAVERY made America, too. I am supposed to ensure that each of these things continues on indefinitely?