USPS PROPOSES FIVE DAY A WEEK DELIVERY !

Well They finally came to their senses and the United States postal service is proposing a five day mail delivery week. I proposed something similar in an earlier blog. but I went one further, a three day delivery week. Leave it up to the pinheads at the post office to propose cutting out just one day, I heard it would be a Tuesday at that. Just like when they upped the cost of a first class stamp by one cent at a time. I never agreed with that and thought they should have made it a good twenty five cent increase, then leave it alone for a few years. I always found it strange that it cost the same if you mail a card to your next door neighbor or if the card went to a long lost cousin in Italy or Poland.
So if your listening Mr Zip, make it so that you deliver mail three days a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Some say that the USPS should be privatized, I disagree. Only the Federal Government can run a mail delivery service that looses money every year for ten or so years, take a week to deliver a card and then call it
"Priority Service". And keep the junk advertising mail to yourself thank you!

I just got three unsolicited "Your are pre approved" credit card offers. I don't want another credit card. Along with those offers I get free magazine issues and free news paper trials that i have absolutely no interest in. You would think that with all the spam around the Internet, snail mail-junk mail, would be a thing of the past, that is not to be. The amount of direct mail that catalog companies, Internet purveyors, and coupon credit card companies send out each year continues to climb according to the U.S. Postal Service. When I worked at a 100 unit apartment complex, every week at least a hundred advertising circulars sat in the mail room in those "Property of the USPS" plastic containers.Most often than not we threw them in the recycle bins UN opened.And do we really need telephone books anymore? I get all my info off the Internet. What a total waste of trees. The annual greenhouse gas emissions from the production of junk mail are equal to those of 3.5 million cars. Junk mail also has non environmental problems. It exposes you to identity theft and is just a waste of time to sort through. If you spend five minutes a day dealing with junk mail for instance, you blow a full 30 hours a year.


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