Mark K 2
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Apparently, 50 feet was too far to walk
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A board with nails in it will give her a good opportunity to explain to her supervisor why she had to do that. LOL
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Kevin Lang
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And they want to charge us 3 cents more per stamp for this service?
scott degroot
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I'm totally speechless.......
Richard McAlister
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Looks like she had to turn around, used the yard to do it. I really don't see anything wrong. 50 ft times the number of stops she makes in a day adds up to a lot of steps.
Thomas Rogers
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She could use the exercise.
Since I lost 80 lbs 3 years ago and have kept it off I have become very judgmental (in my mind) of the actions of obese people.
So when I see things like this it drives me nuts because I think to myself if she would just get out of the vehicle, hop down, hustle back and forth, jump back in, then repeat a few dozen times a day then she would actually be helping herself AND doing a better job.
Other similar things that bug the crap out of me are when I see:
1) The person circle the parking lot for the spot closest to the store, blocking traffic and waiting in the process
2) The folks at the grocery store and WalMart, etc that ride what I call "the fat ass carts." Do they need the carts because they are too fat to walk, or are they too fat to walk because they use the carts?
3) People that order the equivalent of a days worth of calories in a single fast food meal. Hint, mom, the 20 piece McNuggest meal with two large sodas and four large french fries is NOT a meal to split with your 5 year old.
Yeah, I know, live and let live. Yeah, I know, some people have a medical condition. I guess I am not talking about them.
Heck, I would never say any of this to someone's face because it isn't my business and I wouldn't want to invade their privacy. But, I think it is okay to vent this a bit. I didn't feel this way until I recognized that it is our choices that make most of us fat.
Keep making excuses America.
TJR
Since I lost 80 lbs 3 years ago and have kept it off I have become very judgmental (in my mind) of the actions of obese people.
So when I see things like this it drives me nuts because I think to myself if she would just get out of the vehicle, hop down, hustle back and forth, jump back in, then repeat a few dozen times a day then she would actually be helping herself AND doing a better job.
Other similar things that bug the crap out of me are when I see:
1) The person circle the parking lot for the spot closest to the store, blocking traffic and waiting in the process
2) The folks at the grocery store and WalMart, etc that ride what I call "the fat ass carts." Do they need the carts because they are too fat to walk, or are they too fat to walk because they use the carts?
3) People that order the equivalent of a days worth of calories in a single fast food meal. Hint, mom, the 20 piece McNuggest meal with two large sodas and four large french fries is NOT a meal to split with your 5 year old.
Yeah, I know, live and let live. Yeah, I know, some people have a medical condition. I guess I am not talking about them.
Heck, I would never say any of this to someone's face because it isn't my business and I wouldn't want to invade their privacy. But, I think it is okay to vent this a bit. I didn't feel this way until I recognized that it is our choices that make most of us fat.
Keep making excuses America.
TJR
rmaclis, you don't see anything wrong? Forget the laziness aspect of it; that's her choice and I don't really care about that, except the tossing the items. But to drive on someone's lawn? That's just ignorant.
Gavin Allan
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They don't get fat like that from working too hard. :smack:
Bill V
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When I read the subject line, I honestly thought this was going to be a link to the video of Justin Bieber being carried up the Great Wall of China...
Gary DiPietroSr
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I have video of a woman UPS driver letting and watching a box fall off a platform as she let go of it. It was a $500 pair of speakers. Luckily for her, they did not get damaged.
Johnny O
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Mailman where I used to live would do that. Duplex with a double-wide driveway so it was no biggie, but the mailboxes were at the end of the drive and when my neighbor (she was disabled, no car, and got a lot of stuff mail order) would get packages he'd drive up to the door and turn sideways so he wouldn't have to get out to put the packages in the door.
EddieS'04
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TJR,
I will excusse the disabiled and very elderly. The folks that are as big around as a truck tire need to walk.
Recently I drove my 83yr old mom to walmart. She is on oxygen and has the disabled plates. While waiting for a man to leave a disabled slot. The guy behind me. Raps hard on the window. Yells at me for waiting on the slot. I jumped out and, told him to look at my mom and her plates. I felt like knocking him out. When another guy also wearing a vetrans hat, got in between us. He kept me from going to jail. The little scrawny guy. Jumped back in his truck. When I parked, the guy floored his f-250 when he left. He could have hit someone. He had a real anger problem. Everyone around was pissed at the other guy.
Robert Thomas
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I like my mail lady. Maybe this lady had a disabled sticker in the window.
I hate people that park in disabled slots that walk better than me.
I don't like most people in big trucks.
I always park close to the guy that takes up two spots to protect his car.
My UPS guy is nice.
I hate people that park in disabled slots that walk better than me.
I don't like most people in big trucks.
I always park close to the guy that takes up two spots to protect his car.
My UPS guy is nice.
Kevin Lang
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My USPS mail delivery lady is friendly enough.
My USPS local sort staff are incompetent, however: they often put my neighbor's mail in my box. Nothing inspires confidence in the postal service like finding my neighbor's checks and official mail from the state Comptroller in my mailbox.
The Constitution says that Congress must establish a post office. It doesn't say that it has to keep throwing money at this failing system to keep it around. :grin:
My USPS local sort staff are incompetent, however: they often put my neighbor's mail in my box. Nothing inspires confidence in the postal service like finding my neighbor's checks and official mail from the state Comptroller in my mailbox.
The Constitution says that Congress must establish a post office. It doesn't say that it has to keep throwing money at this failing system to keep it around. :grin:
I think the Post Office is a critical service that we need to keep going. I also think they are using way to much manpower hauling junk mail around at discounted Bulk postal rates.
Lets charge the first class postal rate for all the flyers and junk mail that the post office puts in our mail boxes almost daily. I know for a fact that I have been getting far more junk mail than I do legitimate mail. Think about how much of that crap ends up in our landfills.
I also think that we can save a lot of manpower by switching to community mailboxes in all residential areas, and in some small business areas.
I don't have a problem with the post office eliminating Saturday mail deliveries to save on gas and manpower.
I think the USPS is failing because of very poor management. and outdated and inefficient business practices.
...Rich
Lets charge the first class postal rate for all the flyers and junk mail that the post office puts in our mail boxes almost daily. I know for a fact that I have been getting far more junk mail than I do legitimate mail. Think about how much of that crap ends up in our landfills.
I also think that we can save a lot of manpower by switching to community mailboxes in all residential areas, and in some small business areas.
I don't have a problem with the post office eliminating Saturday mail deliveries to save on gas and manpower.
I think the USPS is failing because of very poor management. and outdated and inefficient business practices.
...Rich
Kevin Lang
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Where would my packages go if I had a community mailbox? I've had to go to the post office to pick up boxes that the postal service wouldn't leave in my oversized box (or put on the porch, though my yard is too steep and too protected by a county-owned moat for the mail truck to drive to my porch lol) and it was very inconvenient. I also haven't had any positive experiences with community mailboxes.
Personally I like Saturday delivery. It is one of the few advantages that USPS has over the other shippers, that they have no-extra-cost Saturday delivery.
For me, mail service is always changing. Years ago you could set your watch by the mail delivery times. Nowadays the mail deliver is kinda like the stereotypical cable technician coming to your house: sometime between noon and six. Mail pickups from the post office's mailboxes have also become fewer.
I don't think that the USPS can be run efficiently as long as the government has any involvement with it. If we are to keep it I think that we'll have to cast it out on its own into the private sector. "If you love it, let it go" :grin:
Personally I like Saturday delivery. It is one of the few advantages that USPS has over the other shippers, that they have no-extra-cost Saturday delivery.
For me, mail service is always changing. Years ago you could set your watch by the mail delivery times. Nowadays the mail deliver is kinda like the stereotypical cable technician coming to your house: sometime between noon and six. Mail pickups from the post office's mailboxes have also become fewer.
I don't think that the USPS can be run efficiently as long as the government has any involvement with it. If we are to keep it I think that we'll have to cast it out on its own into the private sector. "If you love it, let it go" :grin:
KL,
I have a community mailbox at my new house. If you get a package that is too large to fit into your regular mail box, they put it into one of about 4 larger sized compartments and put the key to that compartment in your regular mailbox. When you retrieve your package, the key remains in the lock of parcel compartment and only the postal carrier can reset the lock and remove the key. If you get a package that is too large to fit into any of the parcel mailboxes they will just bring it to your door...but not a big issue since most packages that big are usually sent by UPS or FedEx.
I did not think I was going to like the community mailbox, but it really works fine. I have actually met some of my neighbors going out to get mail...and many just drive up, check their mail when coming home from work.
I agree that I also like the Saturday delivery of mail, but it is probably not very cost effective and for the USPS. Every day of deliver cost a lot of labor and fuel for the trucks. Even the USPS executives have talked about dropping Saturday deliveries, and perhaps even Tuesday or Wednesday deliveries??
The reason why mail delivery times are so variable is that you don't often get the same mail carrier. Your normal carrier may be on vacation, sick, or is off because they worked on Saturday and already put in their 40 hours. The person filling in for your regular carrier may not know the route as well, and may walk/drive the delivery route differently? I know I get really good timely service from my regular mail carrier, but I can usually tell when she is off and the substituted is making deliveries because the mail is usually 1-2 hours later.
Things change and the Post office is no different. When I was growing up, mail was delivered to the mailbox at your front door. Later, they started moving mailboxes out to the curb which was how rural areas got mail. At my old house, the mailboxes were at the curb, but only on one side of the street so I had to go across the street to check mail, that sounded more efficient for the mail carrier to only have to drive up the street one-way? Later the post office sent out a notice that you had to put your mailbox in front of your residence, so that meant the mail carrier had to drive up and down the street to deliver mail? Now Community Mailboxes seems to be the way the Post Office is going, especially in new residential areas.
Every change will have someone who cannot accept the change. There will always be people who are handicapped and cannot walk or drive to the community mailbox to get their mail, that's where neighbors and family members can help.... Of course there will always be some who are just too lazy.
...Rich
I have a community mailbox at my new house. If you get a package that is too large to fit into your regular mail box, they put it into one of about 4 larger sized compartments and put the key to that compartment in your regular mailbox. When you retrieve your package, the key remains in the lock of parcel compartment and only the postal carrier can reset the lock and remove the key. If you get a package that is too large to fit into any of the parcel mailboxes they will just bring it to your door...but not a big issue since most packages that big are usually sent by UPS or FedEx.
I did not think I was going to like the community mailbox, but it really works fine. I have actually met some of my neighbors going out to get mail...and many just drive up, check their mail when coming home from work.
I agree that I also like the Saturday delivery of mail, but it is probably not very cost effective and for the USPS. Every day of deliver cost a lot of labor and fuel for the trucks. Even the USPS executives have talked about dropping Saturday deliveries, and perhaps even Tuesday or Wednesday deliveries??
The reason why mail delivery times are so variable is that you don't often get the same mail carrier. Your normal carrier may be on vacation, sick, or is off because they worked on Saturday and already put in their 40 hours. The person filling in for your regular carrier may not know the route as well, and may walk/drive the delivery route differently? I know I get really good timely service from my regular mail carrier, but I can usually tell when she is off and the substituted is making deliveries because the mail is usually 1-2 hours later.
Things change and the Post office is no different. When I was growing up, mail was delivered to the mailbox at your front door. Later, they started moving mailboxes out to the curb which was how rural areas got mail. At my old house, the mailboxes were at the curb, but only on one side of the street so I had to go across the street to check mail, that sounded more efficient for the mail carrier to only have to drive up the street one-way? Later the post office sent out a notice that you had to put your mailbox in front of your residence, so that meant the mail carrier had to drive up and down the street to deliver mail? Now Community Mailboxes seems to be the way the Post Office is going, especially in new residential areas.
Every change will have someone who cannot accept the change. There will always be people who are handicapped and cannot walk or drive to the community mailbox to get their mail, that's where neighbors and family members can help.... Of course there will always be some who are just too lazy.
...Rich
