Post Office fun facts

**Blueneck** · 3rd March 2010 03:21 PM

[quote name='Dr.Knuckles' date='03 March 2010 - 02:26 PM' timestamp='1267644404' post='124393']

Otherwise, we have not received taxpayer funds to support postal operations since 1982

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And it's still the least expensive, most reliable way to send things. Maybe we should let the Post Ofiice run our health care.

**Dr.Knuckles** · 4th March 2010 12:18 PM

Hmmm... interesting, but those facts and evaluators don't fit my dogma... so I will sally forth as if I'd never heard them.

Here I go....

"If you like the way the Post Office wastes all your tax money, by all means... let the government run health insurance. God people are so DUMB"

**Djinn** · 4th March 2010 12:25 PM

[quote name='Blueneck' date='03 March 2010 - 05:21 PM' timestamp='1267654902' post='124462']

And it's still the least expensive, most reliable way to send things. Maybe we should let the Post Ofiice run our health care.

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The U.S. Postal service is extraordinarily reliable, all things considered. I'm on the east coast. If I drop an envelope marked with a California address in the mail on Monday, it's a very safe bet that it will arrive by Friday. And when it comes to magazines, there's no beating U.S. mail. If I want to read magazines electronically, I have to spend some $500 on a piece of hardware, plus my subscription. Instead, I get WIRED magazine for $10/yr, and if I accidentally drop it, or leave it on the train... oh well.