The U.S. Postal Service: Bigger Than Many Countries and More Oppressive

Is there a better example of a completely self-serving bureaucracy than the United States Post Office? Can a better case be made about why the quality of health care in this nation is doomed when the socialist democrats start playing?

On Sunday, December 21, a FedEx employee walked through the snow to my door, knocked and gave me a package. Compare that to…

...Spokane, Washington is a moderately snowy environment; we are not talking Buffalo New York or Aspen Colorado, but we get 36” of snow a year and at any time there may be a foot on the ground. I live in the city…not 50 miles out on a mountain, get it? Last year the post office would not deliver my mail because I had not cleared a berm to precise specifications on each side of the mail box.

Remember these are the people who deliver mail through rain, sleet…but not in snow in a normally snowy area. I called the post office and an overpaid assistant bureaucrat told me it was unsafe and the goofy trucks get stuck. Two contradictions: first, the post office placed in my box, a form that said they would not deliver until I cleared the berm. So…why did they not place the mail in my box with that note? I did not think I had done anything to deserve punishment. Second, on one day the mail did get delivered. This bureaucrat told me that the person who delivered the mail was the one who was wrong because he could have gotten stuck!

I then took a picture and sent it to Maria Cantwell, a perfectly miserable senator from Washington state. The picture showed the size of the berm and asked if it was the case that my box was to receive all the postal employee paychecks, did she think they would deliver them? Oddly, I received no reply at all.

As I write this, Spokane had a 24-hour record snowfall, 17” this last Thursday, December 18. Taking my Dramamine I went out like a good little citizen and cleared the path around the box. The main road had been plowed. Funny, for three work days no mail has been delivered. I too work for government. We were given the day of the snowfall off for “free” and then told “we must serve the public so you will be at work on Friday unless you use vacation time.” Agreed! Three work days later the post office has yet to deliver mail. No alternative site which we hapless folks can visit to pick it up on our own. We get the mail only if the post office wants us to have it, not because another hapless person wasted $.42 in postage to have my letter delivered.

Apparently the U.S.P.S. does not think that my mail is important. These are folks who resist cutting the number of delivery days, yet cut them arbitrarily if they worry their carriers are not dressed warmly enough. These are the same people who want to tax the Internet to subsidize a workforce bloated after-the-fact by the moving of documents over the Net instead of via paper.

I had to (yuck) make a trip to the post office on Monday, 12/15, explained as the busiest day of the season. Instead of two clerks which they normally have when there is virtually no one in the lobby, they had one and a sign that basically said, “what you see is what you get…be patient.”

These are the same folks with no sense of mission, to whom we are about to entrust our health care? Good luck to you folks who voted for the socialist democrats. You get what you deserve. Unhappily, I get what you deserve as well.

It is time to give my mail to the FedEx employee and let him deliver it to me. He wants the work.


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