Sunday, January 25, 2009

When is the last time…

200px-United_States_Postal_Service_Logo.svg you mailed a letter? That is, by the way, a small 7”x 4” folded, usually white, sheet of paper, used to hold more paper. It kind of looks like a pocket. There is a flap thing that you lick to it seal up. You put a “stamp” on the front and give it to the postal service to deliver.

I’ve had a letter in my truck for about a month waiting to be mailed. I don’t have a stamp. Every time I’m in a truck stop I forget to search for a machine to buy a stamp. If I could e-mail a message to the lab that I’m mailing a bill/letter back to, I would.

Did you hear that the “PO” is going to layoff abut 20,000 postal workers? I’m sorry to hear that. But – do you get anything worthwhile in the mail. When I’m home I see nothing but junk mail. I open up the mail box and walk right over to the trash can to throw everything that was sent to me away.

99% of all my “communicating” is done by e-mail. I hate the phone. I never to talk to anyone but my wife and driver manager. My son and I text and e-mail each other all the time. We only talk on the phone when we can’t understand what either of us is saying via text. But I never mail anything to him or my wife or my driver manager.

Other than mailing bills, take away all the crap that is sent through the mail, and you only need about 1/2 the postal office. If anyone needs to get anything somewhere fast they use UPS or FEDEX. DHL is gone. Use e-mail for all the bills and you can rid of the post office all together.

So, again, I’m sorry for the postal workers – hopefully it’ll be all the rude slow ones that will lose their jobs - but we really don’t need them anymore.