I am not for a tax on email, except for spammers
if they had to pay a tax on email, I'd get a lot less of their
garbage to deal with everyday
At 02:29 PM 12/12/2011, Kirby McDaniel wrote:
David, et al
If a small tax were levied on email and text messages -- and it
wouldn't have to be very large either - the revenues
could be used to support snail mail 6 days a week for
everybody. And it would help to control spam and frivolous email
as well.
When J Crew, L.L. Bean, Williams-Sonoma, Lands End and all these
other good folks have to hand off that catalog
delivery business to UPS, then we'll hear a caterwauling for sure.
Personally, I really dislike UPS. Here in Austin they simply will
leave a 12 thousand dollar package on your porch whether
a signature is required or not. Either they just don't care or
their drivers are intentionally ignoring it.
FED EX is, of course, quite good where speed is necessary. But the
insurance things with them is not applicable to film posters. I've posted
about this in the past. If you "insure" a film poster with FED EX
and it gets lost, they are not required to pay you. Because works of art,
collectibles, jewelry and furs are distinctly excepted from
liability in their service manual.
Kirby
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On Dec 12, 2011, at 3:20 PM, David Kusumoto wrote:
I'm a moderate conservative who swings left socially and right
fiscally - yet I agree completely with what Kirby, Franc, Rich and
others have said about how critical it is to preserve our
beleaguered USPS. Free markets cannot apply to a service that by
law, goes EVERYWHERE. Most people don't know the post office gets
its revenue almost ENTIRELY through the sale of postage, NOT tax
dollars. If the post office raised its first class rate for a
one-ounce letter to $1, I would still pay it. The idea that
strangers in USPS uniforms will carry a letter for you for less
than 50 cents - and deliver it to a rural location with a high
degree of reliability - is amazing to me.
I'm also a sucker for the "neither rain, nor sleet nor snow,"
slogan long associated with the USPS. That's what the USPS is all
about. I've been all over the world and in terms of reliability of
delivery, we've got one of the best postal systems anywhere. This
is corny but what Franc wrote about the USPS as part of our
nation's heritage rings true for me. I try my best to greet my
postal carrier every day. Just last week, in the black of night, a
different carrier, a younger woman, came to my door carrying a
large box on her shoulder. She had one of those those beamed LED
lights attached to the front of her cap so she wouldn't fall. She
was late but determined to get through that day's deliveries that
had turned quickly into night. I assessed her situation in a few
seconds and was in awe. And the next day she no doubt went through
the same thing all over again, elsewhere.
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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:31:22 -0800
From: <mailto:sa...@comic-art.com>sa...@comic-art.com
Subject: Re: Another fleabay Moron
To: <mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Kirby is so right about this:
At 08:49 AM 12/12/2011, Kirby McDaniel wrote:
* Don't get me started on this. The postal services are NOT a
business. They were never intended to be a business. They are a
government service. We still need them, despite
what some who worship the "free" markets think.
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