Well to be fear, given the record of disgruntled postal workers shooting
up their former employers, the fear may be less of robbery than of the
effects of subcontracting and privatization itself.
-- nathan Newman
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Jim Devine wrote:
> Today, I went to the local branch of the US post-office to expedite the
> mailing of a letter. I hadn't been there in a long time, so I was impressed
> by two things: (1) the clerk asked if I wanted to buy stamps while I was
> there and (2) they had set up think plexiglass barriers between the
> customers and the clerks, to prevent robbery.
>
> Is it symbolic of larger trends that the commercialization of the USPS (the
> management's instruction that the clerk must use a phrase much like
> McDonalds' "would you like fries with that?") goes along with greater fear
> of robbery?
>
> Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>
