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My own personal little RANT!!! I went 'Postal' today!
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<blockquote data-quote="muttmeister" data-source="post: 353072" data-attributes="member: 135"><p>They've been doing that in our little town for several years now. If we mail a letter here, it goes 75 miles north to be sorted and then comes back here. Yeah, that sound like a definite money saving measure.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite4" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":mad:" /></p><p> </p><p>And one day, several years back, I got a letter with only my name and the town on it (there are less than 200 people in the whole town) and it was stamped they could not deliver it as the address was unknown and at that time THE POSTMASTER WAS MY SISTER IN LAW. in my humble opinion one of the big problems with most big concerns (whether private or public) nowdays is that if there is a rule, you have to follow it EVEN IF IT MAKES NO SENSE. I put up with a lot of that kind of thinking when I was teaching. God forbid, we'd use our brains.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" /></p><p> </p><p>Then there is this situation: when I moved here (nearly 30 years ago) I had a street address. A few years later I was told I had to change my address with all of my correspondents to be RR#whatever, Box blah blah. So I sent change of address forms to all of my magazines, newspapers, friends, etc. Then, after 9-11 we were told that they would no longer deliver mail address to the RR#whatever, Box blah blah address; we had to change everything back to the street address. I appeared at the post office in high pique and informed them that hades would freeze over before I'd go through all of that again; if they wanted to change my address again they could take care of it; otherwise they could put my mail where the sun didn't shine. I was informed that they would take care of it so there must have been some form they could use but they just didn't want to. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite4" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":mad:" /></p><p> </p><p>When I was growing up, in my little town of 35 people, we could put a letter on the train in the morning to my grandparents who lived 12 miles to the west and they could send us an answer back and we'd have it by the evening of the same day. And this is supposed to be progress?<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" /></p><p> </p><p>And they wonder why people are relying on e-mail, text messaging, on-line banking, and FedEx and UPS. They will soon improve so much that they have put themselves out of business.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muttmeister, post: 353072, member: 135"] They've been doing that in our little town for several years now. If we mail a letter here, it goes 75 miles north to be sorted and then comes back here. Yeah, that sound like a definite money saving measure.:angry: And one day, several years back, I got a letter with only my name and the town on it (there are less than 200 people in the whole town) and it was stamped they could not deliver it as the address was unknown and at that time THE POSTMASTER WAS MY SISTER IN LAW. in my humble opinion one of the big problems with most big concerns (whether private or public) nowdays is that if there is a rule, you have to follow it EVEN IF IT MAKES NO SENSE. I put up with a lot of that kind of thinking when I was teaching. God forbid, we'd use our brains.:confused1: Then there is this situation: when I moved here (nearly 30 years ago) I had a street address. A few years later I was told I had to change my address with all of my correspondents to be RR#whatever, Box blah blah. So I sent change of address forms to all of my magazines, newspapers, friends, etc. Then, after 9-11 we were told that they would no longer deliver mail address to the RR#whatever, Box blah blah address; we had to change everything back to the street address. I appeared at the post office in high pique and informed them that hades would freeze over before I'd go through all of that again; if they wanted to change my address again they could take care of it; otherwise they could put my mail where the sun didn't shine. I was informed that they would take care of it so there must have been some form they could use but they just didn't want to. :angry: When I was growing up, in my little town of 35 people, we could put a letter on the train in the morning to my grandparents who lived 12 miles to the west and they could send us an answer back and we'd have it by the evening of the same day. And this is supposed to be progress?:confused1: And they wonder why people are relying on e-mail, text messaging, on-line banking, and FedEx and UPS. They will soon improve so much that they have put themselves out of business. [/QUOTE]
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