I agree with what you said but a few corrections.
DHL is the three letter name you are looking for German and has
closed up shop for a lot of things. (If I remember they are the ones
who closed up shop on an Ohio town?)
Also the USPS is a non government business. They were cut out of the
government a number of years ago. USPS are not federal workers and
are not Civil Servants.
Now to add a few things. We are still one of the few countries to
get Saturday mail service, and we pay some of the lowest rates in the
world for postage. Look at the cost of mailing a letter from most
foreign countries!!!!
It is over a Euro to mail a post card here (We can mail for .26 and
foreign is not that expensive) It costs my in laws almost $1.00 CAN
to mail down here, about .80 up there. And before you say look at
the exchange, remember they don't get paid in US$ they get paid in
Canadian. (I know I lived up there for 4.5 years and my salary was
actually lower if you took into account the exchange rate to an
equivalent postilion down here.)
When I ebay I regularly use USPS priority Mail and am well satisfied
with it. It ends up being cheaper than UPS or FEDex. And it gets
there within 2-3 days. I have not been disappointed yet.
Stewart
At 02:04 AM 9/6/2009, you wrote:
True, the post office certainly has on many occasions.
Does anyone really stop and think what the post office does on a
daily basis? I have yet to find a privet company that has worked as
efficiently and consistently. And, being governmentally run, the post
office's goal isn't to make a profit. No government program is run to
make a profit. People bitch when the programs loose money, and they'd
bitch about prices and taxes if the programs were making money. It's a
no win situation.
I have yet, in my 47 years, realized something getting
lossed by the
USPS. On occasion it's taken a day or more to get here or there. But
at the cost, I really can't complain. And with the millions of letters
and packages they deal with each day, Fed-Ex and UPS seem to be doing
just fine. In fact new people are coming on board. What's the new one?
Some Yellow truck, 3 letters, can't remember the name.
Socialized mail can't be that bad for business.
Maybe that was President Obama's hidden agenda in asking kids to
write a letter. It was to themselves, but maybe he'd had hopes they'd
actually mail them and boost the profits of the USPS? Or maybe he'd
had the market flooded and hoped they'd all lick some tainted stamps?
The conspiracy theories flourish.
Jeff Miles
[email protected]
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[email protected]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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