USPS.....Saturdays, of course. Be sure to spend more tax dollars on ads convincing me we need you!!!!

OCTOBER 28, 2013,  That is the day that my son's airsoft gun was shipped from Indiana.  The "company" that we are constantly asked to bail out, the United States Postal Service, took 6 days to get the package to the sorting facility in Illinois.  Six days.  I could walk it to the sort facility in a day or two, but the folks who work six days a week for us took six.

As of Friday, November 8th, the package was still enroute from the sort center bound for only God knows where.  Being the good Dad that I try to be and doing my best to look online and try to figure out how to track or send a request about it, I gave up in frustration.  Lucky me later that day I had to go to our local post office where the 12 year old behind the counter when asked to track the package by me gave me a serious deer in the headlights look.  He had to go find his manager in a back office and ask for help.  His manager, "the post mistress?", came back to me to let me know that they had probably screwed it up and it was going back and forth between different sorting facilities.  Logically I asked if we could contact the sorting facility and try to solve the problem when she laughed and told me...... guess what......  no    . 

Now every other shipping organization in the world that I know of has tracking numbers so they can oh,  say,  TRACK a package.  Apparently not the USPS.  With them it is just so that we can know that something went wrong for sure.  The ability to solve the problem, well that just seems to be way too much to ask for.

JUST KEEP IN MIND THAT THE USPS IS BROUGHT TO US BY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO ARE PLANNING ON TRYING TO MANAGE YOUR HEALTH CARE.  WHAT COULD POSSIBLE GO WRONG THERE?  I FEEL SO REASSURED THAT THE HEALTH OF MY FAMILY AND MYSELF IS GOING TO BE MANAGED BY US GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES......