USPS why save it?

I had planned to contact USPS to express my concerns regarding shipping costs.

At their main site, USPS.com, I needed to fill in a page or two of personal data first. At the gallup poll site recommend by the local post office, you must give them you zip code + four, which tells these strangers all of your personal data.

I'm guessing that privacy is not something USPS considers important.

This makes me wonder if the USPS $800,000 dollar a year CEO wants USPS to fail.

This is what I wanted to send.

USPS is pricing itself out of business and taking many small businesses with it. Online sellers depend on USPS or UPS for shipping.

In the previous three years, USPS has (during the worst recession in 70 years) increased shipping cost several times. International shipping as much as 500%. When the latter happened, we lost 50% of our international customers overnight. We have not regained the numbers we lost, which means USPS has not regained the business either. This is not sustainable.

Every time USPS raised first class mail prices, more people switch to email and online bill paying.

Standard rate shipping now costs pennies less than priority mail, which is too costly. We are again losing business, and are looking into switching to UPS. Customers are not stupid. They now calculate shipping costs into the price of goods and buy accordingly.

Every time USPS loses a small business shipper like us, it steps closer to the end for USPS.

I realize that the MBA model of business states that prices must be raised to compensate for lost revenue. That model fails more often than it succeeds.

USPS should lower prices across the board, announce the new pricing and I think business will begin to increase. Simultaneously, layoff white-collar employees. Small post offices do not need two or more supervisors, and I am certain, as a former federal employee that the same goes for every level of USPS bureaucracy.
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The Fundamental Red Heifer

Early yesterday, the red heifer bred by cattlemen from Mississippi and Texas, went on a rampage where the animal was housed in Jerusalem. The red heifer, which Fundamentalist Christians claim will herald in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and, with his return, the End of Time, killed all three of her keepers before escaping onto the streets of the city.

Once roaming Jerusalem, the heifer, now full-grown, gored several local residents. An Israeli soldier home on leave from his post along the border of the Gaza Strip shot it through the head killing it as it charged him too.

By the time Fundamentalists learned of the heifer's demise, it had been neatly slaughtered and sold at a local Arab meat market. All that now remains of the heifer that once bore the responsibility of apocalypse are its horns and hooves.

These now sacred objects will be available for viewing at the Museum of the Apocalypse in Crawford, Texas.

Please mail, or send donations for this and or the Free Tony Alamo -- the new fundamentalist Martyr -- Fund directly to the museum, or online using Paypal.
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Michael Steele

Hey Michael!

The President's health care plan is socialism?

All Americans do not deserve health care, right pal?

Let them eat cake instead!

I mean come on, are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses? What has this country come to? A nation based on the principles of Christianity? My God, what would Jesus think?

Congratulation to the Party of No. Have it your way and 100,000 American will die every year. Reduce the surplus population, isn't that what you believe, Michael? A half million will file bankruptcy per year.

You, Boener, McConnell, and company are a disgrace to the principles you claim you believe in!

Limbaugh wants a new Depression, here's why

Limbaugh supporters include folks like those to the right, who under the new administration will not be scarfing taxpayer dollars at the old Republican hog trough.

Let's not forget that GWB awarded no-bid contracts to corporate friends, and Limbaugh applauded the taxpayer theft.

Now, Limbaugh wants the President to fail, and if that happens, America will fail too. Considering that when Limbaugh had the opportunity to defend America during the Vietnam War, he used an cyst on his rear end as a medical excuse to avoid the draft, it is obvious that he has wanted America to fail for a very long time.

Perhaps it is time to gather up his supporters, those wonderful men and women from Wall St and the failing Banking Industry, Mortgage Brokers, etc who brought our great nation to the brink of destruction, and treat them as the financial terrorists that they are.

Limbaugh can go to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to do a special talk show 24/7.

Why I canceled my Capital One credit card account - Maybe you should too!

I received a document today from Capital One regarding finance charges to my credit card account. Can you believe they can charge me 29.6% interest?!?!

I have never been late, never missed a payment in 8 years!!!!!!!!!!

I kept a low balance!!!!!!!!!

It's over between us Capital One. Consider yourself CANCELED!

Oh, and by the way, you loan sharking mental midgets, we're in a serious recession! So what is this, your way of attracting new customers?

Good Grief!

Lyrica causes pain - Are you Kidding? Nope!

Lyrica: a drug for widespread unexpected muscle pain. This drug is recommended through advertising for people suffering from Fibromyalgia.

Here is the list of possible side effects:

Swelling of the face, mouth, lips, gums, tongue or neck.

Trouble breathing.

Rashes, hives and blisters.

But wait! There's more!

Dizziness and sleeplessness.

Eyesight problems including blurry vision.

Weight gain and swelling of hands and feet. Weight gain may affect control of diabetes. Weight gain and swelling can be serious for people with heart problems.

Unexplained muscle pain. . .what? Isn't that what the drug is meant to treat?!?

Soreness or weakness along with a fever or tiredness.

Skin sores.

The most common are:

Dizziness, Sleeplessness, Weight gain, blurry vision, dry mouth, constipation, feeling "high", Swelling of the hands and feet, balance problems, trouble concentrating, increased appetite.

Good God! What has brought us all to this kind of pharmaceutical hocus-pocus? A drug to treat muscle pain that causes muscle pain? Can you say self-perpetuating?

Isn't there a better way to help people with pain than to cause them more pain not to mention a slew of other "possible" side effects? Or do the magician CEOs of the pharmacological world offer drugs to treat them too?

Whatever happened to the FDA? Did the Bush Administration gut that too? We need better oversight!

Secession, Lipstick and Rape

The Republican Party has a secessionist running for the office of vice president. There is something ultra hypocritical about this, but she is a Republican, so the hypocrite part is self-explanatory.

Sarah Palin believes that Alaska should secede from the USA. Now, she tells us she is ready to lead. Lead what?

But not to worry, folks. Lipstick Sarah, the woman who billed Alaska for the time she spent at home and also for traveling back and forth to work, has a plan. A plan for what? She’s an expert on National Security.

She’s a soccer mom who accepted corporate financing for a pipeline through Alaska. And how much money does each Alaskan receive from oil and gas corporations due to those pipelines? $1200 per person per year, or more?

Fact: In Alaska, at the end of each fiscal year, oil royalties are calculated and each resident of the state receives a check for his/her share of these monies.

Also, according to her running mate, er, what’s his name again? Well, whoever, Lipstick has credentials for keeping America safe and secure. What are these credentials? I already wrote about that. She accepted corporate funding for a pipeline.

You know what else she has that will keep America safe? A strong love for Wal-Mart. How many Wal-Marts dot the Alaskan landscape? Supercenters: 3, Discount Stores: 5, Neighborhood Markets: 0, Sam's Clubs: 3, Distribution Centers: 0

How many Wal-Mart employees are in Alaska? 3,163.

Wal-Mart in China raised employees’ salaries, while here in the USA Wal-Mart cut employee salaries.

Lipstick is a secessionist. A woman who thinks Alaska should separate itself from the USA. Most secessionists think this because corporations run the federal government. Apparently that is not Lipstick’s reasoning. She loves corporations, they run Alaska too.

No, you think? Think pipelines, oil and gas, Wal-Mart and how many others like them in malls?

And then there is the fact that Alaskans receive more federal dollars per capita than citizens of any other state. The same goes for federal earmark dollars.

Yes sir! Not only is Lipstick a secessionist in all but fact, she also believes on book banning, and feels that a rape victim should be required by law to pay for her own rape kit. What’s a rape kit? The kit used at hospitals to collect evidence for law enforcement (DNA, fibers, tissue, etc).

I’m wondering if her thinking that a woman should pay for the rape kit, which she may not be able to afford, also means that Lipstick doesn’t think rape is a crime. Maybe she is one of those people who think rape is a woman’s fault.

Lipstick: secessionist, book banner, and an elected official who believes that only this one crime should go on the tab of the victim, rather than being a cost of law enforcement. Oh, unless she wants to charge robbery and murder victims (their families) for the forensics of their cases too.

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