Increase stamp prices? You're asking the wrong guy.
The Postal Service wants another two cents for delivering a letter.
Today would not be a good day for them to hit me up for a raise.
Today I received a package via first class mail that took 24 days to get to California from New York City. Twenty-four days. William Henry Harrison was President only a little longer than that.
Not only that, but at some point along the way, the minions at USPS folded my package — clearly marked in bold print "HANDLE WITH CARE" right across the front underneath the delivery address — in half. Fortunately the contents — a piece of commissioned comic art I've been sweating over for the past three weeks — emerged without permanent damage.
So I'm not feeling terribly sanguine about the Post Office today.
That said, our postal system is still the best communications bargain in the free world. Our mailing rates are cheaper than almost every other industrialized nation, and our service for the money is, by and large, better than anyone's. The postal carrier who regularly works our route routinely goes the extra mile to take care of my art packages, and delivers them by hand to my doorstep when they arrive.
Just don't ask to hoist the tariff on the day I find out you folded my Trevor Von Eeden.
Today would not be a good day for them to hit me up for a raise.
Today I received a package via first class mail that took 24 days to get to California from New York City. Twenty-four days. William Henry Harrison was President only a little longer than that.
Not only that, but at some point along the way, the minions at USPS folded my package — clearly marked in bold print "HANDLE WITH CARE" right across the front underneath the delivery address — in half. Fortunately the contents — a piece of commissioned comic art I've been sweating over for the past three weeks — emerged without permanent damage.
So I'm not feeling terribly sanguine about the Post Office today.
That said, our postal system is still the best communications bargain in the free world. Our mailing rates are cheaper than almost every other industrialized nation, and our service for the money is, by and large, better than anyone's. The postal carrier who regularly works our route routinely goes the extra mile to take care of my art packages, and delivers them by hand to my doorstep when they arrive.
Just don't ask to hoist the tariff on the day I find out you folded my Trevor Von Eeden.
SwanShadow was randomly pounding the keyboard at 8:18 PM
3 insisted on sticking two cents in:
24 days? YIKES! That's longer than some packages we get from England...via media rate.
What is up with the postal service? Do they enjoy driving people away? I mean as it is, "snail mail" is already growing more and more obselete, and now this? To me, the Postal Service is asking for it.
Yikes! is right - for a 24 day wait! Why people fold things clearly marked is beyond me - it's just plain mean.
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