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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on September 30, 2011, 08:16:58 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2032617
Whew.
I found my fellow Nebraskan, after not seeing him on Skins's island all day long.
This is of concern, because there's a lot of regular primitives who haven't been seen around lately.
Omaha Steve (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 08:18 PM
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Going postal: Mail worker unions overload tea party group with more than 100 pounds of mail
http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/30/going-postal-mail-wor...
In what appears to be an attempt to overwhelm their critics, postal union members have sent more than 100 pounds of mail to a tea party group advocating for United States Postal Service reform.
Donna Wiesner Keene of TheTeaParty.net told The Daily Caller the group receives its mail weekly, and that the onslaught so far has spanned two weeks. The first week, she said the union workers sent approximately 700 letters and delivered them in a box weighing 57 pounds.
Then, this week, Keene said the workers doubled down on their efforts, bringing the total weight of the mail her group received to over 110 pounds.
“I find the idea of the unions attacking a tea party group for simply supporting a bill that would make our whole country more efficient and that would lower the cost of the taxpayers’ yearly contributions to an inefficient agency, is just outrageous,†Keene said in a phone interview. “These union people need to be doing their jobs in the most efficient manner, and the Post Office needs to be losing people by attrition but doing a really good job of delivering our mail.â€
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/30/going-postal-mail-wor...
FULL story at link.
jpbollma (53 posts) Fri Sep-30-11 08:19 PM
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1. Cost to the taxpayers??
What the **** is this idiot talking about!? There is no cost to taxpayers!
Lucian (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 08:23 PM
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3. What a stupid twit.
Our taxpayer money is being wasted on the Defense Department. NOT on postal workers.
Gah. These people are so stupid it just pisses me off.
lunatica (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 08:24 PM
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4. Their ignorance is very loud and abrasive
It was so nice when they were in the closet hiding it away. Now they're proud of it.
patrick t. cakes (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 08:30 PM
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5. teabag scum
“These union people need to be doing their jobs in the most efficient manner, and the Post Office needs to be losing people by attrition but doing a really good job of delivering our mail.â€
Nice choice of wording, and no coincidence i suspect.
Attrition:
at·tri·tion
noun
1.
a reduction or decrease in numbers, size, or strength: Our club has had a high rate of attrition because so many members have moved away.
2.
a wearing down or weakening of resistance, especially as a result of continuous pressure or harassment: The enemy surrounded the town and conducted a war of attrition.
3.
a gradual reduction in work force without firing of personnel, as when workers resign or retire and are not replaced.
4.
the act of rubbing against something; friction.
5.
a wearing down or away by friction; abrasion.
mailman82 (219 posts) Fri Sep-30-11 08:31 PM
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6. Read the comments at the bottom!
Pure hatred and childishness!
madrchsod (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 08:45 PM
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7. i love to read the comments from the brain dead....
the facts go right over their heads.....
Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 08:47 PM
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8. "Cost to Taxpayers" YOU IGNORANT MORON!
Too bad the rotund aspylad the Odin2005 primitive doesn't contemplate his cost to the taxpayers.
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Lucian (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 08:23 PM
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3. What a stupid twit.
Our taxpayer money is being wasted on the Defense Department. NOT on postal workers.
Gah. These people are so stupid it just pisses me off.
DUmmy Lucian needs to consider what being truly stupid is.
Being truly stupid is shoplifting at your job in a WalMart, bragging about it on a message board, and then giving enough information for decent and civilized people to identify your store.
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What about all those TREES.........!
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Was all that mail legitimate, or did the postal workers throw in some bulk mailings and deliver them purposefully to the wrong address. If I were at the TEA party hq, I'd check every piece of mail for the correct address .
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Omaha Steve (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-30-11 08:18 PM
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>snip<
“I find the idea of the unions attacking a tea party group for simply supporting a bill that would make our whole country more efficient and that would lower the cost of the taxpayers’ yearly contributions to an inefficient agency, is just outrageous,†Keene said in a phone interview. “These union people need to be doing their jobs in the most efficient manner, and the Post Office needs to be losing people by attrition but doing a really good job of delivering our mail.â€
I fail to see a problem with that statement.
Seem's that Coaches drinking buddy might have a bit too much O'doul's last night.
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I'd refuse delivery of the mail until it was properly sorted.
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I'd refuse delivery of the mail until it was properly sorted.
I'd stamp return to sender and make them haul that mail right back out. :-)
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If a supposedly user-fee-funded agency is losing money, then each transaction is at a cost to the taxpayers, stupid DU tools, even in the unlikely event all those letters were written when the postal employees were off the clock (And what are the chances of that?).
Also, 37 pounds of mail? BFD. It doesn't hurt the recipient, he can just leave it all in the box unopened, after sorting it to get anything that looks like a bill or mail he actually wanted out of it.
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IIRClast year the federal government kicked in $5 billion to the USPS's pension fund. that is taxpayer money...albeit our grandchildren's grandchildren's money.
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110 pounds, none of it read or wanted.
That's pretty close to the average at my house.
Out of every 100 pounds of mail we receive, probably two pounds of it is opened and read.
USPS losses are on that 98% of unwanted junk mail that they handle at hugely discounted bulk rate.
Why not charge bulk rate junk mailers what their trash actually costs to deliver?
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They should invest in a giant sharpie and write "RETURN TO SENDER" on the box.
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110 pounds, none of it read or wanted.
That's pretty close to the average at my house.
Out of every 100 pounds of mail we receive, probably two pounds of it is opened and read.
USPS losses are on that 98% of unwanted junk mail that they handle at hugely discounted bulk rate.
Why not charge bulk rate junk mailers what their trash actually costs to deliver?
That was my first thought. I must schlep that much from the mailbox each week in catalogs and circulars, all addressed to my wife. Fiji's, Lane Bryant, Hayneedle, Lillian Vernon, et al.
Pottery Barn alone must be deforesting 100 acres a week just to keep the dandi household updated on all the latest potpourri holders.
:argh:
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That was my first thought. I must schlep that much from the mailbox each week in catalogs and circulars, all addressed to my wife. Fiji's, Lane Bryant, Hayneedle, Lillian Vernon, et al.
Pottery Barn alone must be deforesting 100 acres a week just to keep the dandi household updated on all the latest potpourri holders.
I had a problem once where a cattail infestation in my pond made it very hard to fish from the shoreline. I bought a can of a chemical called "Aquacide".
It worked great, and if I ever had the same problem I'd buy another can.
The thing is, that was in the early 1980s. To this day, about twice a year, I get a catalog from Aquacide, though I've never bought a thing after that first can.
The fact they can afford to do that attests to the ridiculously low bulk mail rates charged by the bankrupt USPS.
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Junk mail got to the point where I stopped emptying my mailbox. The Post Office got the hint and stopped delivering mail to this address some time last year. Since I pay most of my bills online, I'm perfectly happy with the arrangement.
I went through my last mail delivery and contacted every junk mailer I could locate and submitted an address removal request through their email or website. The previous tenant must have been as queer as a three-dollar bill, because I get all sorts of frou-frou crap delivered here under his name.