They worship the USPS but not its damned patriotism

[BannedFromDU]

question everything (24,235 posts)


Those "patriotic" postage stamps

Yes, I do use snail mail. For all invoices and payments and letters. I use online payments only for local utilities (we also have landline).

So I have been purchasing several booklets of the "forever" stamps: first the bell and then whatever caught my fancy, like the bonsai ones.

But some time ago I purchased the flag stamps, not realizing that each one, in addition to the flag, also has a word added: Liberty, Freedom, Equality and Justice.

Now, I don't have problems with using these words to describe our country, though I know that some on DU will take exception. I do, however, object to having letters coming from me carrying them.

Just as I will not wear a piece of clothing with the American flag and any patriotic words, I object to adding them to anything being displayed or mailed by me.

Time to replenish my supply. I will be very careful what I purchase now.

http://store.usps.com/store/browse/subcategory.jsp?categoryId=subcatS_S_Books&categoryNavIds=catBuyStamps%3AsubcatS_S_Books

Sigh.

"I'm going to make this REAL SIMPLE for you freepers: you will do whatever it takes to keep us union monkeys employed with full benefits and pensions for sorting letters and driving little white trucks. But don't you DARE try to put anything patriotic on the stamps. That's where we draw the ****in' LINE. Now then, I need 55 cents for a stamp, because I feel a few government-funded abortions coming on."


Some DUmmy dissent but not nearly enough. DUmmies: the US is good enough to employ them and feed them until they die, but not good enough to put its ****ing core values on its ****ing stamps.

[Reality vs DU]

The things DUmmies bitch about. 

No wonder conservatives are consistently shown to be happier people.

[Linda]

  Here was one of the 1st asshat to reply:

Star Member el_bryanto (2,686 posts)
1. Thank goodness for people like you - obviously there is nothing about America worth celebrating

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America is a terrible place full of terrible people. Why won't they let people like us, who see America for the Depraved Awful place it is, run things?

Bryant

but then some common sense creeped in:

Star Member HappyMe (7,943 posts)
7. I can't get worked up about stuff

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like this.

They're just stamps, fer cripes sake.

whoops wait a minute...we can't have that:

Star Member actslikeacarrot (35 posts)
12. how dare you...

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...question the outrage of questioneverything!!1!

[Karin]

They've gone full blown batshit insane.  WTF. 

[Airwolf]

Idiot.

[Celtic Rose]

  Here was one of the 1st asshat to reply:

but then some common sense creeped in:

whoops wait a minute...we can't have that:

I read the replies from el_bryanto and actslikeacarrot as sarcasm.  

[BlueStateSaint]

I read the replies from el_bryanto and actslikeacarrot as sarcasm.  

I'm with you, CR.  Too over-the-top.

[Ralph Wiggum]

They've gone full blown batshit insane.  WTF. 

It wasn't a long journey.  One could argue they've been bat-shit insane since 2001.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

  Here was one of the 1st asshat to reply:

but then some common sense creeped in:

whoops wait a minute...we can't have that:

El_bryanto was being sarcastic.

[Zathras]

They've gone full blown batshit insane.  WTF. 

What do you mean "gone"? DU has been pretty much full blown batshit insane since they came online.

[ColonelCarrots]

God forbid they had the pursuit of happiness on there these miserable people would've thought it was a personal attack.