See You In Line
Tomorrow’s the big day. Line up and get ’em while they’re hot. The brand new $.37 stamps go on sale tomorrow, and I know you can’t wait to get your hot little hands on them. The post office expects us to believe this new rate hike has something to do with increased equipment costs due to the Anthrax scare last fall, but they were planning this hike long before that. You already know how fond I am of the USPS given my earlier posts, but I had to add a little more because it is really starting to irk me. Why are they still creating new $.34 stamp designs? They just came out with the 50 state collection to capitalize on the Statehood Quarters craze, yet they knew the rates were about to change. Isn’t this misuse a more likely culprit for the price hike? Printing up all those stamps no one can use after July 1st? They think the more designs offered, the more likely we are to mail things. Duh. No one mails anything worthwhile anymore; it all gets lost. I can type one post here; and theoretically the whole world could read it in an instant and the Post Office doesn’t get a dime. Why would I bother to write it down and mail it to you? It would take a week or more for you to receive it, by then it’s old news. I don’t even chance paying my bills through the mail anymore; I pay them all online. The only thing the mailman brings me is direct marketing crap, a few bills and some stuff from eBay. That is where the money is. My advice: Give up on letters, work on delivery, specifically, ON TIME PACKAGE DELIVERY. You get Priority Mail working reliably and you’ll keep the Post Office afloat. Keep losing people’s stuff and delivering 2-3 day packages 2 weeks late and the ship is gonna sink, my friends. “Brown” will crush you and your flying eagle (even if their new ad campaign sucks). Think about it.