11/13/13

WHY?????

Why should we save the PO.  Just an update here.  So now it is the 12th and shocker, we have progress with my son's box that is in transit.  On Sunday night it arrived in Boise, 450 miles too far South but I guess the USPS thinks that since it is in Idaho, it must be close.  Maybe someone should buy them a globe. 

The last time I had a package coming and it went to Boise it took another week since it went to Salt Lake City, then Spokane, then up here to Sandpoint.  You know, the direct route.  If I gave that box to a hitchhiker in Indiana on Oct 29th and asked him to bring it here, it would have been here last week.  Instead, the seller gave it to the USPS and here we are two weeks later with the box still 450 miles away with no estimated delivery date.  Remember, the USPS itself estimated delivery of this package Nov 4th.  Huh, a little late.  Maybe we'll get a refund.........   No really, with any other company wouldn't you be able to request a refund?

If we saved billions of dollars and cut the USPS to 3 delivery days a week who would miss it?  For that matter if the IRS cut billions of dollars and went to a flat rate or sales tax, who would care?  I guess the only ones would be the employees.  Imagine how much more productive we would be if they became private sector employees!!!  Our GNP would surge....  No seriously if they had productivity standards to meet like most other private sector employees then they might get more done!!   Our bureaucratic system just kills productivity and takes away the incentive to be efficient.

OK, Off my soapbox!!   Come on, just get the damn box here so my kid can have a chance to enjoy his new toy.......      I guess I probably ought to shut up before one of them goes postal on me, oh damn, did I just say that...