The Morning Rant

The United States Postal Service's informal motto is, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"

My response to this constitutionally authorized agency's informal motto is, Bull Fvcking Shit.

The following may fall under The Morning Rant and/or First World Problems $9.5 billion worth. Yes, $9.5 billion, with a B that was the 2024 deficit the USPS ran up.

As many of you know yours truly lives in the boondocks of The Frozen Tundra. The move took place in 2018. One of the first things completed was installing an approved mail box to a specified height. Over the years the mail carrier or whatever the approved title is would place flyers in my mail box. Everything from the USPS collecting food items or a friendly reminder on how I was to keep the snow away from the mail box so they could deliver the mail. The USPS felt it was fine they could place "their mail" in my receptacle.

As we all know, the USPS certainly takes a number of days off due to Federal Holidays. The last holiday the USPS celebrated was President's Day Monday February 17th.

The following day our mail box was full of the regular items one expects. However there was no flyer from the USPS what was about to take place the following day. On Wednesday there was no mail in our box. No problem, as it is not uncommon to go a day without mail. Thursday morning I walked out and placed mail in the box with the good old red flag placed in the upright position.

The outgoing mail was not picked up on Thursday, Friday or Saturday. Nor was any delivered.

I had been expecting several important pieces of mail and I'm starting to worry and also getting peeved about the situation. So Monday February 24th I drive into town to find out what is going on.

I asked to see the Post Master. Well, that can't happen as the Post Master is somewhere in the southern part of the state filling in and won't be back until May. So I then proceeded to talk to the most senior employee there. Also our mail carrier was present and joined the conversation.

My simple question was, "Where the hell is my mail and what is going on?" The story I received was one that makes one's head spin.

From September 2018 until May 2024 our mail had been delivered by a contractor who was delivering mail for the USPS under a "Highway Contract". There had been a couple of problems during this time. But nothing compared to this.

I was informed by our postal carrier that they had won the "Highway Contract" in May 2024 but there were approximately 85 mail recipients who were not included in the route. The contractor advised us that they had made numerous attempts to have the contract reviewed and revised to include the 85 residents.

As a sign of good faith our mail carrier advised us she was delivering mail to us without getting paid for her time and mileage. I said, "Hang on a minute here. Our neighbor approximately 1/2 mile from us is getting mail but we aren't?"

She advised us that the "Highway Contract" mail route ended at our neighbor a 1/2 mile away. Our mail and our adjacent neighbor's mail were not part of the contract. She indicated she was putting on approximately 9 miles a day without getting paid. And this had been going on since May 2024. According to her numerous efforts had been made to get the problem resolved. And since it hadn't been resolved she wasn't going to deliver to our mail box or the other 80+ residents.

My response was something to the effect, "That's all fine and dandy. But in the age of communication and transparency why wasn't I notified? You are pretty happy to keep slipping reminders in our box to keep the area free of snow but you couldn't tell us about this problem?"

I was informed that she was prohibited from placing any notice of this in our mailbox as it was not approved by the Postmaster or the USPS.

With gas at $3.02 a gallon at the moment, I get it that 9 miles per day 6 days a week for 9 months and not getting paid is utter BS.

So now if I want to mail a letter or get my mail, I have a 13 mile round trip to town. I have better things to do with my time and the wear and tear on my vehicle to obtain my mail which is Constitutionally guaranteed. The USPS doesn't care about my carbon footprint but they are willing to spend $$$$$ to purchase 66,000 EVs by 2028.

(I suspect Buck Throckmorton will talk about all the mail that will go up in flames due to these rolling firebombs.)

One job, pick up and deliver mail. And if you wonder why they have a $9.5 Billion deficit, check out the following pricing for a package I recently sent.

I've written it before here at AoSHQ and I'll write it again. The Federal Government is too large to survive.

And to finish off on a good note.......

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 11:00 AM

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1 St

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 27, 2025 11:00 AM (MGB5H)

2 Great content!

Now I'll go read it.

Posted by: Half Dozen at February 27, 2025 11:01 AM (uVHlT)

3 Too late

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 27, 2025 11:03 AM (N1tpc)

4 Thanks for the mail-splaining!

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 27, 2025 11:03 AM (m04xH)

5 Hellooo...Newman.

Posted by: BignJames at February 27, 2025 11:04 AM (Yj6Os)

6 The Marvelous Marvelettes!

Posted by: m at February 27, 2025 11:04 AM (v0TzN)

7 USPS hires out its work to contractors? Who knew?

I hope the military isn't doing the same thing.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 27, 2025 11:04 AM (JkO4W)

8 Out of all the delivery services out there, only UPS and Amazon are worth a damn. The mail sucks, and FedEx shits the bed about half the time. DHL may be the worst of all, though.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 27, 2025 11:05 AM (m04xH)

9 Just for reference, after not getting mail for a few days, I also contacted my post office, and was informed that they are not required to deliver mail to mailboxes.

Just what would you say you do here?

One more example of the fact that you are not considered a customer by a government employee.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 27, 2025 11:05 AM (PwBTw)

10 I don't know what I'd do without my 4th glossy book of the week advertising Viking cruises. Seriously, what percentage of mail is stuff you want, vs. what goes unread into the round file?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 27, 2025 11:05 AM (xCA6C)

11
"I don't work in the rain."

https://youtu.be/Bw_MOtnhIxw

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at February 27, 2025 11:06 AM (DobEs)

12 USPS hires out its work to contractors? Who knew?

I'm not sure how that passes constitutional muster. If they can do this, why can't they just send all mail via Amazon or UPS?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 27, 2025 11:06 AM (xCA6C)

13 My postal carriers have been basically okay until recently. Now they've started actually lying, e.g., saying they placed a small package in my mailbox on a given date (they hadn't), or saying they could not make delivery because no one was home at 6:22 pm (there was -- me -- and I had the door open as well).

I've almost always had stuff delivered to my work if I was unsure whether it woujld fit in my home mailbox. Since I'm retiring, I won't have that to back me up any more. It begins to look as if I need to rent a PO box when I get where I'm going to live.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:06 AM (J2vNu)

14 Frankly, I am sort of shocked that the postal service wasn't employing illegals to deliver mail.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 27, 2025 11:06 AM (PwBTw)

15 USPS "Ground Advantage" - 2 days, $6.15
USPS "Priority Mail" - 3 days, $7.11

That's so fucked.

Maybe you ought to submit a bid to become a delivery contractor, MisHum.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2025 11:07 AM (8zz6B)

16 One good thing is that assaulting these carriers with a tyre iron is not a Federal offense since they are mercenaries. I think you can summarily execute them.

Posted by: Not A Lawyer at February 27, 2025 11:07 AM (G5+As)

17 It begins to look as if I need to rent a PO box when I get where I'm going to live.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Are you still planning to go to Indiana?

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 11:08 AM (77rzZ)

18 Shoosh, not only 'get off my lawn' but 'where is my mail.'

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 11:08 AM (pLaQB)

19 FedEx and UPS seem to be reliable about 99% of the time, in my experience.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 27, 2025 11:08 AM (JkO4W)

20 When I was a wee lad, one of my friends lived in town and he would pick up his mail from their box at the post office. This seemed so much better to me than our arrangement, which was to have the mail dropped through a slot in the front door. I still feel that my life is not quite complete because I have never had my own P.O. box.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 27, 2025 11:08 AM (2ap+5)

21 My response to this constitutionally authorized agency's informal motto is, Bull Fvcking Shit.

Now. Now.
Don't mince words.
How do you really feel?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 27, 2025 11:08 AM (W/lyH)

22 I think the USPS is fucked in the head.

Posted by: Clark Griswold at February 27, 2025 11:08 AM (ufFY8)

23 Mister we could use a man like ~~Herbert Hoover~~ Clifford Clavin again!

Posted by: Doof at February 27, 2025 11:09 AM (7g/Pa)

24 15 USPS "Ground Advantage" - 2 days, $6.15
USPS "Priority Mail" - 3 days, $7.11

That's so fucked.

Maybe you ought to submit a bid to become a delivery contractor, MisHum.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2025 11:07 AM (8zz6B)

I hate people too much to be their postal boy. Plus retirement rocks.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at February 27, 2025 11:09 AM (IYuZR)

25 15 USPS "Ground Advantage" - 2 days, $6.15
USPS "Priority Mail" - 3 days, $7.11

That's so fucked.

Maybe you ought to submit a bid to become a delivery contractor, MisHum.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2025 11:07 AM (8zz6B)

Well we're not going to hold on to this thing in our office for *another* extra day for free. You're gonna have to pay rent for it!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2025 11:09 AM (jKo6M)

26 "Neither rain, nor snow, nor gloom of night will stay these swift..." Ahh, that's bullshit. See my union rep.

Charley the mailman taking his two hour before lunch break

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 27, 2025 11:09 AM (gm9Sb)

27 7 It begins to look as if I need to rent a PO box when I get where I'm going to live.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Are you still planning to go to Indiana?
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 1

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Going to drive up and look around, and at SW Kentucky, in April.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:09 AM (J2vNu)

28 Marvelettes in that great 60s combo of orange/pink

Love it! Their cute pony dancing too

Posted by: kallisto at February 27, 2025 11:10 AM (M2qjg)

29 About all I get in the mail are weekly bulk mailing from local tire companies, Andersen Windows, and coupons for pizza.

Although I do need new tires, I already have a reliable source.

I don't need windows at all (the "energy savings" would take me 100 years to pay off the cost of installing new windows).

And I've learned how to make my own pizza.

*sigh*

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 27, 2025 11:10 AM (7fElN)

30 Yes MisHum, it is borderline a First world problem type of post, but you're right on all counts.

They could have and should have told you.
They have one job, and didn't do it in your case.

At any rate, it sucks to be one of the pebbles who "fall between the cracks".
At least you're not having your road closed by a tribe that's holding a community hostage for moolah.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 27, 2025 11:10 AM (FCbAQ)

31 21 My response to this constitutionally authorized agency's informal motto is, Bull Fvcking Shit.

Now. Now.
Don't mince words.
How do you really feel?
Posted by: Diogenes at February 27, 2025 11:08 AM (W/lyH)

TBH it was a good thing The Fabulous was with me. Or I would have went "postal" in a verbal fashion.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at February 27, 2025 11:10 AM (IYuZR)

32 When I was a teen I got albums and magazines in the mail. Now I just get shit. Nothing to look forward to.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 11:10 AM (pLaQB)

33 USPS hires out its work to contractors? Who knew?

I hope the military isn't doing the same thing.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 27, 2025 11:04 AM (JkO4W)

Of course not, comra.... fellow citizenski.

Posted by: Lousy performance of mil lately says otherwise at February 27, 2025 11:10 AM (0eaVi)

34 Are you still planning to go to Indiana?
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 11:08 AM (77rzZ)

Shhh....

Posted by: Op Sec at February 27, 2025 11:11 AM (ufFY8)

35 Thx MisHum. The Constitution says that the government has to have a post. The devil however is in the details. Our post office and delivery here is pretty good, your results may vary

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 11:11 AM (EG7Bp)

36 I'm actually surprised there is any wintertime delivery of mail on the frozen tundra. I thought they would wait until daylight returns and the glacier retreats on Memorial Day. Oh, wait, that's a holiday, too.

Posted by: Sunny Disposition at February 27, 2025 11:11 AM (G5+As)

37 FedEx and UPS seem to be reliable about 99% of the time, in my experience.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 27, 2025

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UPS's latest dodge is to bring a package 3/4 of the way, then turn it over to USPS for final delivery. Uh-huh.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:11 AM (J2vNu)

38 hey check out the branch manager..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 27, 2025 11:11 AM (w4nzS)

39 Man, just saw the news about Gene Hackman. One of my favorite actors, if not the best of all time. CO2 poisoning? Or murder suicide? Or just murder? I didn't realize he was 95. RIP Gene, thanks for the great years of entertainment.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 27, 2025 11:11 AM (ewjUl)

40 If I drop a letter in the outgoing mail slot at my local post office that is addressed to a PO Box twenty feet from the mail slot, the letter goes to the nearest big city 40 miles away to be sorted and delivered.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 27, 2025 11:11 AM (PiwSw)

41 35 Thx MisHum. The Constitution says that the government has to have a post. The devil however is in the details. Our post office and delivery here is pretty good, your results may vary
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 11:11 AM (EG7Bp)

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The Constitution says that Congress has the authority to set up posts and post roads.

Not that it must.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:12 AM (GBKbO)

42 UPS's latest dodge is to bring a package 3/4 of the way, then turn it over to USPS for final delivery. Uh-huh.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:11 AM (J2vNu)
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I think they call it "the last mile" or something like that. Once it's turned over to USPS, it's out of their hands. If it gets lost, oh well...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 27, 2025 11:12 AM (7fElN)

43 >>>last holiday the USPS celebrated was President's Day Monday February 17th.

If I may, that term, "President's Day," is not recognized by the U.S. government and, thus, the United States Postal Service. It's officially known as Washington's Birthday.

Posted by: Cliff Claven, USPS, ret. at February 27, 2025 11:12 AM (Y1sOo)

44 The Constitution says that the government has to have a post. The devil however is in the details. Our post office and delivery here is pretty good, your results may vary
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Actually, it only gives Congress the authority to establish post roads, but does not require it to do so.

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

45 I think rural mail carriers have been contractors for a long time. Makes sense, really. Put the contract out for bid, so that local residents can bid on it. Ideally, someone who is ideally located to minimize the miles driven could submit a low bid that nevertheless was a profitable deal for the winner.

Studebaker sold right-hand drive Larks, called the "Rural Router".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2025 11:12 AM (8zz6B)

46 When I was a wee lad, one of my friends lived in town and he would pick up his mail from their box at the post office. This seemed so much better to me than our arrangement, which was to have the mail dropped through a slot in the front door. I still feel that my life is not quite complete because I have never had my own P.O. box.
Posted by: Oglebay at February 27, 2025 11:08 AM (2ap+5)

General delivery was fun.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 27, 2025 11:13 AM (0eaVi)

47 How friendly are you with the 1/2 mile away neighbor that is on the route? I know there are many developments where the USPS made the developer put up a block of mailboxes on the main road rather than deliver to each house, so having a cluster of mailboxes can be a thing.

But agree the situation is BS, and the contractor is kind of goofy delivering mail w/o getting the mileage pay for several months, but not sticking a flyer outside your mailbox to get around the 'can't put non USPS approved flyers in the box' stupid rule.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 27, 2025 11:13 AM (CKOCg)

48 Studebaker sold right-hand drive Larks, called the "Rural Router".
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That was Studebaker's plan to invade England.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 11:13 AM (pLaQB)

49 47 How friendly are you with the 1/2 mile away neighbor that is on the route? I know there are many developments where the USPS made the developer put up a block of mailboxes on the main road rather than deliver to each house, so having a cluster of mailboxes can be a thing.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 27, 2025 11:13 AM (CKOCg)

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Our previous house had this arrangement.

I didn't like it. It wasn't the end of the world, but I still didn't like it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)

50 I wonder if Rep Tom Tiffany (R-WI 7th district) and/or his staff are Morons?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at February 27, 2025 11:14 AM (IYuZR)

51 When I was a teen I got albums and magazines in the mail. Now I just get shit. Nothing to look forward to.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025

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MIss Linda still gets things like Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in the mail. Only she has them sent to *my* address, labeled with the name of my late cats.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:14 AM (J2vNu)

52 Meanwhile, the post office double wide near us just renewed their contract. They're going on third generation running the business.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 27, 2025 11:14 AM (tT6L1)

53 Mentioned here before. I put in a refill request to the VA for prescriptions. Next day, they're done and provide tracking info. Now the USPS steps in. They send my stuff from Fayetteville AR to a distribution center in TX. They sort things out and send it to the distribution center for Fort Smith, which is Fayetteville, AR. Fayetteville then sends it to Fort Smith, and then they send it to my local station.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 27, 2025 11:14 AM (gm9Sb)

54 I live in a rural area as well and I don't get USPS mail. I have to drive to town to my PO Box, which I have to pay 100 a year to use.

I do receive Fed Ex and UPS packages at my house but the post office now has new people and if the shipper sends a package us mail the people at the post office used to figure out the package was mine and put it in my box,even though it didn't have my P.O. Box on the package. Now they return it as undeliverable becuase they're incompetent.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2025 11:14 AM (58I7G)

55 from the US Constitution:

The Congress shall have Power...To establish Post Offices and post Roads

Posted by: m at February 27, 2025 11:14 AM (v0TzN)

56 You know we haven't had a USPO employee go 'postal' in years... So there's that

-Gov employee union rep

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 27, 2025 11:14 AM (w4nzS)

57 That's 9.5 BILLION in arrears, then? Aye, let slip the DOGE of war! Time to run another branch of service through the audit hell. It's so much fun!

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at February 27, 2025 11:14 AM (XjTSo)

58 Going to drive up and look around, and at SW Kentucky, in April.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:09 AM (J2vNu)

Gonna blacken your teeth except for one and leave the shoes at home, Wolfus?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 27, 2025 11:14 AM (0eaVi)

59 UPS has some weird hybrid service where UPS handles everything but the final delivery. Instead the item lands in the Post Office nearest the recipient's location, and the Post Office handles the final leg.

I ordered a part for a boat engine from the East Coast and they used this service. According to tracking the delivery to the Post Office went flawlessly in two days.

Then the part completely disappeared. UPS tells me it's untraceable once the Post Office gets it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 27, 2025 11:14 AM (JkO4W)

60 57 That's 9.5 BILLION in arrears, then? Aye, let slip the DOGE of war! Time to run another branch of service through the audit hell. It's so much fun!
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at February 27, 2025 11:14 AM (XjTSo)

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It's my understanding that it's mostly pension related costs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

61 51 When I was a teen I got albums and magazines in the mail. Now I just get shit. Nothing to look forward to.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025

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MIss Linda still gets things like Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in the mail. Only she has them sent to *my* address, labeled with the name of my late cats.
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Women's magazines still exist. Field and Stream, not so much.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 11:16 AM (pLaQB)

62 40 If I drop a letter in the outgoing mail slot at my local post office that is addressed to a PO Box twenty feet from the mail slot, the letter goes to the nearest big city 40 miles away to be sorted and delivered.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 27, 2025 11:11 AM (PiwSw)

That makes zero sense for one instance of one thing... but it does make sense for hundreds or thousands of instances. Door to door delivery would increase the complexity of the network exponentially, and every single carrier would need the system to catalog and track everything on board at all times, as opposed to one system in the central hub. And equipment aside, that would mean many, many more hands in the operation that can screw up and somehow get your package expedited to Abu Dhabi instead of two doors down the road, instead of everything just going to the main depot without exception.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2025 11:16 AM (jKo6M)

63 "What is a mail?"

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 27, 2025 11:16 AM (YfQh2)

64 So does that mean you can pay less taxes since you’re not getting the delivery service? (Ok, ok, everyone can stop laughing)

Posted by: Cray Cray at February 27, 2025 11:16 AM (wo0Q4)

65 Studebaker sold right-hand drive Larks, called the "Rural Router".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2025 11:12 AM (8zz6B)

Jeeps also. And Subaru got a variance to bring right hand drive legacy wagons here for the same market.
My FIL got his foot in the door to the USPS by being a rural carrier, back when his "city" was actually more of a cow town with a lake district.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 27, 2025 11:16 AM (FCbAQ)

66 I ordered a part for a boat engine from the East Coast and they used this service. According to tracking the delivery to the Post Office went flawlessly in two days.

Then the part completely disappeared. UPS tells me it's untraceable once the Post Office gets it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 27, 2025 11:14 AM (JkO4W)
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My boss has a similar situation going on with a car part. It came to town, then left again for another town, then it gets sent back to the distribution center.

The working theory from the post office is the part was put in a bin destined for the other town by accident.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 27, 2025 11:17 AM (7fElN)

67 That's a pretty impressive f-up by the USPS. You don't live close enough, so NO MAIL FOR YOU!

In the United. States. Of. America. In 2025.

In the 19th century they raced ponies damn near to the point of death to get mail to people.

I was informed when I moved, my house is on a "rural route." Or something like that. It's a fairly newish development, with hundreds of houses all around. We're not a rural route, but apparently that means the postal carrier doesn't have to do certain things. So far it hasn't been a problem, just jeezy peazy, people.

Come on!

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:17 AM (dGCAG)

68 Oh, and there are no cameras in my post office and people keep going in a prying the boxes open and stealing the mail at night.
My friend put an AirTag in a package and mailed it to herself and she caught the thieves herself.

So if you don't go every day to the post office you risk your box being opened and your mail stolen.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2025 11:17 AM (58I7G)

69 I don't know what I'd do without my 4th glossy book of the week advertising Viking cruises. Seriously, what percentage of mail is stuff you want, vs. what goes unread into the round file?
Posted by: Archimedes

1.3% want vs 98.7% trashed.
Banking papers & property tax info = want.
All bills are paid online.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 11:17 AM (NiXiP)

70 The amount of mail the USPS processes, sorts, delivers has dropped by some 80% (or more) over the last several years. During this time the USPS hired 14K new employees. And continued to run up a deficit.

And still fails to fulfill it's primary function.

It's noticed here, in rural Kentucky. There are Christmas packages sitting in Louisville that have been there since November. The sorting... a mostly manual process there for packages, is months behind because the USPS can't find anyone willing to do this shit work. Or they can't find people trainable. Or whatever.

Our mailcarrier is pretty cool. Brings packages that won't fit into the mailbox up the driveway along with all the other mail on those days.

But the real issue(s) are in the main sorting facility in Louisville.

And a USPS bloated budget with an inability to hire people who can read labels and property sort mail. So they hire more people who can't do the job. And raise rates.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 27, 2025 11:17 AM (Q4IgG)

71 There's seven different unions representing postal workers.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 27, 2025 11:18 AM (gm9Sb)

72 Going to drive up and look around, and at SW Kentucky, in April.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025
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Gonna blacken your teeth except for one and leave the shoes at home, Wolfus?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 27, 2025

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Maybe I need a Jed Clampett-style hat. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:18 AM (J2vNu)

73 I live in a rural area as well and I don't get USPS mail. I have to drive to town to my PO Box, which I have to pay 100 a year to use.

I do receive Fed Ex and UPS packages at my house but the post office now has new people and if the shipper sends a package us mail the people at the post office used to figure out the package was mine and put it in my box,even though it didn't have my P.O. Box on the package. Now they return it as undeliverable becuase they're incompetent.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2025 11:14 AM (58I7G)

Yikes! I get my mail at a P.O. box at home in Canada, and the box rental is free, but I have to renew it each year.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2025 11:18 AM (8zz6B)

74 Studebaker sold right-hand drive Larks, called the "Rural Router".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Also "Zip-Vans".

Posted by: South Bender at February 27, 2025 11:19 AM (G5+As)

75 I’m pretty sure back in the 1800’s postmasters in some, maybe most areas was something that a person bid on to run the office out of their store.

Alexander Campbell “reformer” of the American Restoration movement was a postmaster. He did it for the franking privileges since he had a lot of correspondence with preacher across the country, though I’m not sure if he used the privilege for his Millennial Harbinger magazine.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025 11:19 AM (Vh9CX)

76 73% chance of rain per the forecast for this morning, and I just closed the blinds because the glare from the sun is making my computer screen unreadable.
Typical.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 27, 2025 11:19 AM (n4GiU)

77 I wonder if Rep Tom Tiffany (R-WI 7th district) and/or his staff are Morons?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at February 27, 2025 11:14 AM (IYuZR)

Well, MisHum, they're politicians, so....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 27, 2025 11:19 AM (0eaVi)

78 67 That's a pretty impressive f-up by the USPS. You don't live close enough, so NO MAIL FOR YOU!

In the United. States. Of. America. In 2025.

In the 19th century they raced ponies damn near to the point of death to get mail to people.

I was informed when I moved, my house is on a "rural route." Or something like that. It's a fairly newish development, with hundreds of houses all around. We're not a rural route, but apparently that means the postal carrier doesn't have to do certain things. So far it hasn't been a problem, just jeezy peazy, people.

Come on!
Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:17 AM (dGCAG)

I was informed I didn't have a Rural Route but a Highway contract. Considering I live at the end of a dead end town road 6.5 miles from the post office I considered that rural.

It didn't pay to argue as I was not going to have my mail delivered. And I'm too cheap to rent a PO Box. Besides all of the change of address crap one must go through.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at February 27, 2025 11:20 AM (IYuZR)

79 That's 9.5 BILLION in arrears, then? Aye, let slip the DOGE of war! Time to run another branch of service through the audit hell. It's so much fun!
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at February 27, 2025 11:14 AM (XjTSo)

If you go by our Republican Congress (and plenty of commenters here), a 9.5 billion dollar deficit would be not just okie dokie, but a dream come true.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:20 AM (dGCAG)

80 she could have knocked on your door and you could have had this conversation a week ago.

and to think we had a discussion on another post about tipping your mail carriers.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 11:20 AM (cwGMH)

81 40 If I drop a letter in the outgoing mail slot at my local post office that is addressed to a PO Box twenty feet from the mail slot, the letter goes to the nearest big city 40 miles away to be sorted and delivered.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 27, 2025 11:11 AM (PiwSw)

Same with mine but if I am sending something to my neighbors I go to the window and they will postmark it and put it in my neighbors box.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2025 11:20 AM (58I7G)

82 75 I’m pretty sure back in the 1800’s postmasters in some, maybe most areas was something that a person bid on to run the office out of their store.

Alexander Campbell “reformer” of the American Restoration movement was a postmaster. He did it for the franking privileges since he had a lot of correspondence with preacher across the country, though I’m not sure if he used the privilege for his Millennial Harbinger magazine.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025 11:19 AM (Vh9CX)

=======

They were political appointees based on my reading.

And they were quite powerful and desirable positions, especially in larger population centers like NYC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

83 Thanks for the great Rant, Mis Hum!

We've had postal problems here in Hooterville. Our most recent contract carrier was fired and charged with felony theft. Caught on camera opening mail and pilfering gift cards and cash. But it took a peeved mail recipient to bypass the nearest postmaster and take their complaint to the FBI. I trust Trump and his team to return the post office to its rightful duties. First off, they need to get rid of the mail carriers union.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 27, 2025 11:20 AM (rxCpr)

84 I enjoy sending notes to people. It's not that I care about people(!), but graceful handwriting and drawing little vines and plants are enjoyable activities now that I'm retired and have the time.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 27, 2025 11:21 AM (2ap+5)

85 I have vague memories of asking about the postman appearing during the Blizzard of '77. My parents said that even the postman was excused from tardiness when there was that much snow. It was the exception to the rule of the clockwork appearance of the postman in the blue & white Jeep, passing off mail & the odd package. Usually packages were held at the town post office.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at February 27, 2025 11:21 AM (XjTSo)

86 I misread you Mapes. That's sounds like it's just plain old bad system design.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2025 11:22 AM (jKo6M)

87
ZIP codes explained...
https://youtu.be/PHo-JQlORNo

Posted by: The More You Know at February 27, 2025 11:22 AM (DobEs)

88 The United States Postal Service's informal motto is, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"

I know that’s B.S.
We had around six inches of snow here last month and saw no mail carrier for about five days until the snow was gone.

Maybe they do it differently up north where they’re used to it, but below the Mason-Dixon Line they give up after the first snowflake.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 27, 2025 11:22 AM (6ydKt)

89 As I bitched earlier in the week, the USPS took two weeks (15 effin days) to carry a REGISTERED LETTER 180 miles.

It moved to the regional distribution center on the evening that I mailed it and then didn't move for 12 days until I started a missing mail trace.

It is routine for outgoing mail to take a week to be delivered to an address IN MY OWN TOWN.

I would do better to walk to the destinations.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 11:22 AM (jc0TO)

90 FedEx in my area uses contracted drivers. They are terrible. Leave packages out by the road (over a football field from my house) say delivered to gate, I don't have a gate. Say delivered and it wasn't.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 27, 2025 11:22 AM (MGB5H)

91
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 27, 2025 11:20 AM (rxCpr)

Thank you LS

And there should be no government unions period!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at February 27, 2025 11:22 AM (IYuZR)

92 I was informed I didn't have a Rural Route but a Highway contract. Considering I live at the end of a dead end town road 6.5 miles from the post office I considered that rural.

It didn't pay to argue as I was not going to have my mail delivered. And I'm too cheap to rent a PO Box. Besides all of the change of address crap one must go through.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at February 27, 2025 11:20 AM (IYuZR)

Yeah, you seem to be one step lower than rural route on the USPS' "service" level.

I've driven through towns, where I see some beater car driving from box to box, with a sticker or roof sign that says "Postal Delivery." I guess it never occurred to me before, these were contractors.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:22 AM (dGCAG)

93 How many tens of billions did the democrats give the USPS in 2020 and note they’re in the red again? Did they stay in the black even a year (2021)?

I knew a guy who went to work at the USPS. He was hard working. 10 out 15 USPS “workers” had a conversation with him not to work so hard as it made their lazy gold bricking asses look bad. He soon quit. Great group of people USPS “workers.”

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 27, 2025 11:23 AM (17s+e)

94 Can you place a mailbox at the location 1/2 mile away that IS having mail delivered, with your house number on it?

Posted by: somefrigginguy at February 27, 2025 11:23 AM (9npw5)

95 Oh, look, white pepo bishing about the P.O.

*yawn*

Posted by: LaTisha M., customer service counter at your local P.O. at February 27, 2025 11:23 AM (Y1sOo)

96 @41, 44 you are correct sirs, it empowers not "shall". Thx for the correction

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 27, 2025 11:24 AM (EG7Bp)

97 We've had postal problems here in Hooterville.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient

Ever since Sam Drucker died.

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 11:24 AM (77rzZ)

98 and to think we had a discussion on another post about tipping your mail carriers.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Do you tip them at night, like cows, or when they are napping on their two hour lunch break?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 27, 2025 11:24 AM (PwBTw)

99 I think you have to compare what UPS would charge for delivering a one page letter. I think that is where the USPS is in the red. Again just a guess.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 11:24 AM (cwGMH)

100 93 I knew a guy who went to work at the USPS. He was hard working. 10 out 15 USPS “workers” had a conversation with him not to work so hard as it made their lazy gold bricking asses look bad. He soon quit. Great group of people USPS “workers.”
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 27, 2025 11:23 AM (17s+e)

=======

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faMh6OYfuNE

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

101 79 That's 9.5 BILLION in arrears, then? Aye, let slip the DOGE of war! Time to run another branch of service through the audit hell. It's so much fun!
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at February 27, 2025 11:14 AM (XjTSo)

If you go by our Republican Congress (and plenty of commenters here), a 9.5 billion dollar deficit would be not just okie dokie, but a dream come true.
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I will concede that a departmental deficit of that amount is almost laudable, given the current state of the various departments. But there is always some room for improvement.

Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at February 27, 2025 11:24 AM (XjTSo)

102 Our most recent contract carrier was fired and charged with felony theft.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 27, 2025 11:20 AM (rxCpr)

Was that wrong?

Next you'll be telling us we can't watch pron on our work pooters.

Posted by: Your Government at February 27, 2025 11:25 AM (dGCAG)

103 93 How many tens of billions did the democrats give the USPS in 2020 and note they’re in the red again? Did they stay in the black even a year (2021)?

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Meh. I'd rather see the money go to the Post Office than going to promoting faggotry in Croatia.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 27, 2025 11:25 AM (JkO4W)

104 I love the way the Marvellettes shake their mail bags!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 27, 2025 11:25 AM (f9NFV)

105 That makes zero sense for one instance of one thing... but it does make sense for hundreds or thousands of instances. Door to door delivery would increase the complexity of the network exponentially, and every single carrier would need the system to catalog and track everything on board at all times, as opposed to one system in the central hub. And equipment aside, that would mean many, many more hands in the operation that can screw up and somehow get your package expedited to Abu Dhabi instead of two doors down the road, instead of everything just going to the main depot without exception.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2025 11:16 AM (jKo6M)

Simple answer for that: let the senders do the sorting. A drop box for local mail (defined as within the same town, or within same rural county), a box for in-State, and a box for out of State and International.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2025 11:25 AM (8zz6B)

106 I enjoy sending notes to people. It's not that I care about people(!), but graceful handwriting and drawing little vines and plants are enjoyable activities now that I'm retired and have the time.
Posted by: Oglebay at February 27, 2025

***
Hm. When I heard in Jan. about the 2015 passing of the ex-Mrs. Wolfus No. 2, I sent a nice card and a short letter to her mother. No reply, and it hasn't come back. With all the mail bobbles lately, maybe it never got to their house at all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:25 AM (J2vNu)

107 It's my understanding that it's mostly pension related costs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
====
Walk around carrying a heavy bag for 25 years, get in great shape, and retire with full pension at 50-55.
How could this go wrong?

Posted by: From about That Time at February 27, 2025 11:25 AM (n4GiU)

108 My Grand Dad was a postman. He got the gig after fighting in Cuba during the Spanish American war. It was a good job in those days.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 11:25 AM (pLaQB)

109 Amazon, Ebay, and such, doing the work USPS won't do.

Posted by: Eromero at February 27, 2025 11:26 AM (LHPAg)

110 USPS is kind of like legacy media. They keep forgetting that a lot of advances have been made and they can easily be made obsolete.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 27, 2025 11:26 AM (svLOV)

111 Pricing aside, one reason I prefer UPS to the Post Office is you have a better chance of actually getting your package delivered. Not a guarantee, I know, but a better chance.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 27, 2025 11:26 AM (f9NFV)

112 The union isn't the entirety of the problem but its certainly part of it. A decade ago I walked in to buy 2 stamps--just 2. I had to wait in line more than 30 minutes because the automated vending machines were no longer there. I asked why. The answer: "Our union had them pulled--the machines were costing human jobs."

I know the machines are back now and have been for a long time, but the union-think will kill any entity given enough time.

Posted by: Crusader at February 27, 2025 11:26 AM (TN0g+)

113 I had to quit mailing things in the public mailboxes because thieves were constantly stealing the mail.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 11:26 AM (cwGMH)

114 Walk around carrying a heavy bag for 25 years, get in great shape, and retire with full pension at 50-55.
How could this go wrong?
Posted by: From about That Time

Sit down and let me 'splain...

Posted by: Broken Army Vets at February 27, 2025 11:26 AM (JCZqz)

115 107 It's my understanding that it's mostly pension related costs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
====
Walk around carrying a heavy bag for 25 years, get in great shape, and retire with full pension at 50-55.
How could this go wrong?
Posted by: From about That Time at February 27, 2025 11:25 AM (n4GiU)

======

I don't think I've ever seen a postman walking with a bag of mail.

But I've always lived in small towns/suburbs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO)

116 I will concede that a departmental deficit of that amount is almost laudable, given the current state of the various departments. But there is always some room for improvement.
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at February 27, 2025 11:24 AM (XjTSo)

Hell it's almost endearing. They ain't shipping money off to buy cock rings for gay Malagasy toddlers. They ain't funding NGOs to funnel cash, arms and shanghai'd soldiers off to some Shitcanistan somewhere.

They really do just suck at life in general and shit the bed in the guest room. Clean, old American incompetence.

It's refreshing, really.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2025 11:27 AM (jKo6M)

117 Our UPS guy is great, USPS not so good, FedEx sucks here.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 11:27 AM (jc0TO)

118 We have one friendly mail person at the branch closest to us. The rest are just openly surly.
We recently have begun to have issues. We have traveled a fair amount last year and it was a game when to have the mail stop. If i had it on one day they seemingly began a few days ahead of schedule and returned it the same. I guess they can’t understand 2/28/2025 lingo.

Posted by: Paisley at February 27, 2025 11:27 AM (ny1NG)

119 I will concede that a departmental deficit of that amount is almost laudable, given the current state of the various departments. But there is always some room for improvement.
Posted by: exdem13 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT at February 27, 2025 11:24 AM (XjTSo)

I'm just still pissy about Ace's post yesterday, where people were bitching about Massie voting no on a budget that had fewer trillions of dollars of deficit spending.

I guess people expect everyone to fall in line, because Republicans do it.

Yeah, no.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:27 AM (dGCAG)

120 put up a group 'neighborhood' mailbox setup at the location that is being delivered to, and you will have a less of a commute to get your mail.

Posted by: somefrigginguy at February 27, 2025 11:27 AM (9npw5)

121 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Croatian faggots at February 27, 2025 11:27 AM (DobEs)

122 Damn, it was a long time ago but I remember mail coming and going from FPO 96602 (fleet post office San Fran) was pretty damn efficient. I got a couple care packages from Mom and Dad in days. Also, our mail guys at the unit level took their job seriously.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 27, 2025 11:27 AM (gm9Sb)

123 > If I drop a letter in the outgoing mail slot at my local post office that is addressed to a PO Box twenty feet from the mail slot, the letter goes to the nearest big city 40 miles away to be sorted and delivered
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This is the model, policy, process, whatever.... everywhere. Mail here that's going to the same zip code is taken up to Louisville to be "sorted."

There are not the resources, the equipment or personnel at a rural post office with, maybe 5 people working including the carriers, to sort thousands of pieces of mail a day. Even for a podunk little town like ours.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 27, 2025 11:27 AM (Q4IgG)

124 And as a commenter here noted recently: The 2020 Steal could never have happened without USPS workers injecting literally millions of fraudulent mail-in ballots into "the system."

Scatter. Salt. Privatize.

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 27, 2025 11:27 AM (1YwYn)

125 When USPS does final delivery of an Amazon package to my house they often report it as delivered-- which triggers the delivered notice from Amazon--hours before it actually shows up. So they're cheating on the delivery metrics that Amazon sees.

Posted by: Bigsmith at February 27, 2025 11:28 AM (1Au9i)

126 I will say the actual 'mail men' (persons) seem to work very hard.
The mail never stops!!!

-Newman

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 27, 2025 11:28 AM (w4nzS)

127 I had to quit mailing things in the public mailboxes because thieves were constantly stealing the mail.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 11:26 AM

Our PO eliminated the blue boxes outside. You have to go in to drop off outgoing mail.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 11:28 AM (jc0TO)

128 Great group of people USPS “workers.”

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 27, 2025 11:23 AM (17s+e)

Still better than the DMV.

Posted by: BignJames at February 27, 2025 11:29 AM (Yj6Os)

129 Walk around carrying a heavy bag for 25 years, get in great shape, and retire with full pension at 50-55.
How could this go wrong?
Posted by: From about That Time at February 27, 2025 11:25 AM (n4GiU)
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Our mail lady just retired (we are very sad to see her go} and she was in great shape from all the walking she did while working. Now she lives in South Carolina and she and her husband are both collecting public pensions.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 27, 2025 11:29 AM (f9NFV)

130 USPS hires out its work to contractors? Who knew?

I hope the military isn't doing the same thing.

Have you gone onto a military base in the last, oh say, 20 years or so? The gate security at many of them (Ft. Sam Houston for one example) are contractors, not enlisted.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 27, 2025 11:29 AM (/y8xj)

131 Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog have all been found dead in their home in NM.

No foul play suspected.

RIP to one of the best actors of the last 100 years.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 11:29 AM (bK7PL)

132 I was in the Carpenter's Union in NYC until 1988 when I got sense and moved to NC. I'm familiar with loading docks and freight elevators in hundreds of buildings. The worst dysfunction and childish behavior I can remember was in the Pan Am Building when 5 or 6 mail carriers pushing their canvas carts would enter to deliver to every floor. Bullshit, crass talk, loud, trying to impress the 1 or 2 women involved. I was more mature at age 10.
Also did renovations in Post Offices, where there were postal inspectors. They kept things under control.

Posted by: Gone Postal at February 27, 2025 11:29 AM (G5+As)

133 Our UPS guy is great, USPS not so good, FedEx sucks here.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 11:27 AM (jc0TO)

I think mine is better now that I'm on a "rural route."

I signed the form that says they can drop packages at my door, and now even Fedexsux will do that without making me sign for it, or have to go to wherever their distribution site is to pick something up.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:29 AM (dGCAG)

134 USPS is kind of like legacy media. They keep forgetting that a lot of advances have been made and they can easily be made obsolete.
Posted by: NR Pax

FedEx put the hurt on the post office, but docusign is going to do the same to FedEx.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 27, 2025 11:29 AM (PwBTw)

135 They were political appointees based on my reading.

And they were quite powerful and desirable positions, especially in larger population centers like NYC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

———

Campbell was a very wealthy man having married the daughter of one of his rich converts, her dad died then she died and he married the young nanny. Nothing to see there. LOL. I recall he also bought land cheap in Ohio and sold it for a pretty penny.

Campbell was so rich that he gave an address to Congress.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025 11:30 AM (Vh9CX)

136 Hey all - I had posted a prayer request in JJs thread about a young lady who works on my team, 8 mos pregnant, with concerns that the baby ha not moved in 24 hours.

She went to the ER, mom and baby are doing great! Thanks for the prayers y'all they work.

Posted by: blaster at February 27, 2025 11:30 AM (xhfG9)

137 Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) has a suggestion for the problem of overweening judges emitting national injunctions. It sounds good to me.

https://is.gd/G29cb1

Posted by: Archimedes at February 27, 2025 11:30 AM (xCA6C)

138 The USPS lost a box rent that was in their own envelope and dropped in their own inside mail box.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2025 11:30 AM (mB6WH)

139 Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog have all been found dead in their home in NM.

No foul play suspected.

RIP to one of the best actors of the last 100 years.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 11:29 AM (bK7PL)

Covid shots?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:30 AM (dGCAG)

140 88
‘ but below the Mason-Dixon Line they give up after the first snowflake.’

And we appreciate the humor at your expense that it gives us.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 27, 2025 11:30 AM (jbnUc)

141 We have one friendly mail person at the branch closest to us. The rest are just openly surly.
We recently have begun to have issues. We have traveled a fair amount last year and it was a game when to have the mail stop. If i had it on one day they seemingly began a few days ahead of schedule and returned it the same. I guess they can’t understand 2/28/2025 lingo.
Posted by: Paisley at February 27, 2025

***
"Openly surly" would be an improvement for me. And they *shuffle* when they walk, slowly, from the counter into the back to look for whatever you are supposed to receive. Why, it's almost as if their teachers in grade school never told them to pick up their feet when they walk.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:31 AM (J2vNu)

142 139 Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog have all been found dead in their home in NM.

No foul play suspected.

RIP to one of the best actors of the last 100 years.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 11:29 AM (bK7PL)

Covid shots?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:30 AM (dGCAG)

Carbon monoxide ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 11:31 AM (VE6XX)

143 138 The USPS lost a box rent that was in their own envelope and dropped in their own inside mail box.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2025 11:30 AM (mB6WH)

Now what did you do to disappoint them Ben?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at February 27, 2025 11:32 AM (IYuZR)

144 I do remember way back when some comedian quipping about whether we would agree to deliver a letter from NYC to LA for 35 cents (yes long ago).

I forgot the funny part. that was just part of the set up.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 11:32 AM (cwGMH)

145 One little tangentially-related item - I saved a new Christmas song (Christmas magic) to google drive, made a QR code out of a link to the song, printed the QR codes on some square labels and slapped the labels on my Christmas cards. A video Christmas greeting is the goal for 2025, if I make it that long.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 27, 2025 11:32 AM (2ap+5)

146 put up a group 'neighborhood' mailbox setup at the location that is being delivered to, and you will have a less of a commute to get your mail.
Posted by: somefrigginguy at February 27, 2025 11:27 AM (9npw5)

There are a lot of those out here. A bank of boxes.

Mine isn't, everyone on our street has a box, but I do like the idea. If it's not too far away.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:33 AM (dGCAG)

147 - So where/when did this "thing" of replacing a letter with a different letter or an * or whatever become a thing?
Do people think it means they really didn't "say" that word? Like they cleaned it up or something?

Have those of you who do so, and also at times claim the name of Christ, consider that it might cause those who aren't believers to think "Yeah, those Christians aren't any different than the rest of us."?

1 Peter 1:15

Posted by: TeeJ at February 27, 2025 11:33 AM (ItCQP)

148 Carbon monoxide ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 11:31 AM (VE6XX)

seems like the only option if no foul play involved.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 11:33 AM (cwGMH)

149 Carbon monoxide ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 11:31 AM (VE6XX)

Yeah, when I stop being stupid and silly, that's what I thought.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:33 AM (dGCAG)

150 Have you gone onto a military base in the last, oh say, 20 years or so? The gate security at many of them (Ft. Sam Houston for one example) are contractors, not enlisted.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 27, 2025 11:29 AM (/y8xj)

———

Gotta focus on “core mission”. Though it certainly was going on before him, I mostly blame Gates when he was SecDef who basically treated the DoD as a corporation with a business model.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025 11:33 AM (Vh9CX)

151 Not too long ago I had purchased something off eBay, the seller shipped it out the next day, I followed the tracking number all the way to when it was out for delivery - and somehow it was in New Orleans a week later. Took another week for it to finally be delivered to me in Philadelphia.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 27, 2025 11:33 AM (bHGBC)

152 put up a group 'neighborhood' mailbox setup at the location that is being delivered to, and you will have a less of a commute to get your mail.
Posted by: somefrigginguy at February 27, 2025 11:27 AM (9npw5)

That's how it works in Canada. For years now. No new residential developments have door-to-door postal delivery. Post Office sets up "super mailboxes" on street corners, and your mailing address is "Box 233, Site 52, northwest Calgary" or some crap like that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2025 11:34 AM (8zz6B)

153 > If I drop a letter in the outgoing mail slot at my local post office that is addressed to a PO Box twenty feet from the mail slot, the letter goes to the nearest big city 40 miles away to be sorted and delivered

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I just learned this last week!

I work with our VA Clinics in Northern AZ and we were pondering the fastest way to get an item to a rural VA Clinic (paired with an IHS Clinic) on the Navajo Reservation.

Courier or Mail -- and it was pointed out to me, much to my surprise, that the Mail has to go down south to Phoenix first before it's re-rerouted north of us.

Brilliant! Top. Men. Worthy.

Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 27, 2025 11:34 AM (1YwYn)

154
Wilford Brimley would like a word...

https://youtu.be/k8M9LF7Gz4E

Posted by: ANOTHER obligatory Seinfeld reference at February 27, 2025 11:34 AM (DobEs)

155 130 USPS hires out its work to contractors? Who knew?

I hope the military isn't doing the same thing.

Have you gone onto a military base in the last, oh say, 20 years or so? The gate security at many of them (Ft. Sam Houston for one example) are contractors, not enlisted.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 27, 2025 11:29 AM (/y8xj)
'A shame, and I got all dressed up and everything.'
- AirMAN Qujuasha Jackson

Posted by: Eromero at February 27, 2025 11:34 AM (LHPAg)

156
You'll love this, MH, from breitbart.com

Commerce Sec’y: Postal Service Loses Money, Could Save by Doing Census, Social Security Work

The same USPS that was credibly accused of mishandling mail-in ballots to favor one party over another?

Impartiality and diligence are not in their wheelhouse. How about "no"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 11:34 AM (xG4kz)

157 So where/when did this "thing" of replacing a letter with a different letter or an * or whatever become a thing?
Do people think it means they really didn't "say" that word? Like they cleaned it up or something?

Have those of you who do so, and also at times claim the name of Christ, consider that it might cause those who aren't believers to think "Yeah, those Christians aren't any different than the rest of us."?

1 Peter 1:15
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I'm guilty of that, and of just typing the words out in full. I know the best version of me shouldn't use profanity.

Posted by: Crusader at February 27, 2025 11:34 AM (TN0g+)

158 I work with our VA Clinics in Northern AZ and we were pondering the fastest way to get an item to a rural VA Clinic (paired with an IHS Clinic) on the Navajo Reservation.

Burro.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 11:35 AM (NiXiP)

159 Mis Hum, paid the bill early I suppose? Hugs to you both

Posted by: Ben Had at February 27, 2025 11:35 AM (mB6WH)

160 From WaPp:

An “unknown disease” has killed 53 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The details: At least 431 cases have been reported since last month. The outbreak was traced to the village of Boloko where three children died after reportedly eating a bat.

The symptoms: They include fever, vomiting and diarrhea. Many of the deaths took place within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms, the World Health Organization said.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 27, 2025 11:35 AM (2ap+5)

161 I rarely ever had a problem with USPS employees.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025 11:35 AM (Vh9CX)

162 Not too long ago I had purchased something off eBay, the seller shipped it out the next day, I followed the tracking number all the way to when it was out for delivery - and somehow it was in New Orleans a week later. Took another week for it to finally be delivered to me in Philadelphia.
Posted by: Josephistan at February 27, 2025 11:33 AM (bHGBC)

Yeah, I've gotten those. Ebay says "even though it shows as delivered, it might not yet have been delivered."

THEN WHAT'S THE POINT OF HAVING YOUR STUPID TRACKING SYSTEM????

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:35 AM (dGCAG)

163 UPS's latest dodge is to bring a package 3/4 of the way, then turn it over to USPS for final delivery. Uh-huh.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:11 AM (J2vNu)

Nope. Not any more.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 27, 2025 11:36 AM (mWSu4)

164 "And if you wonder why they have a $9.5 Billion deficit, check out the following pricing for a package I recently sent."

No, they have a deficit because the USPS subsidizes junkmail and a bunch of other stupid bullshit.

If they made junk mailers pay the same rates us peasants did, we would have much less junk mail AND rates would be far lower AND they'd be in the black.

"125 When USPS does final delivery of an Amazon package to my house they often report it as delivered-- which triggers the delivered notice from Amazon--hours before it actually shows up. So they're cheating on the delivery metrics that Amazon sees.
Posted by: Bigsmith at February 27, 2025 11:28 AM (1Au9i)"

Widespread cheating. I watched a mail truck pull into my street, stop for a few mins, then haul ass out of there... after which we got lots of fake delivery notifications. They're calling it quits for the day but leaving things on the truck/returning them to the post office, however you can't go GET them because they're "delivered".

Posted by: heya at February 27, 2025 11:36 AM (nH+RN)

165 You'll love this, MH, from breitbart.com

Commerce Sec’y: Postal Service Loses Money, Could Save by Doing Census, Social Security Work

And you want yo give unelected, unvetted postal workers access to you SS information?

Reeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 11:36 AM (NiXiP)

166 149 Carbon monoxide ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 11:31 AM (VE6XX)

Yeah, when I stop being stupid and silly, that's what I thought.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:33 AM (dGCAG)

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Let's not dismiss the notion that it could have been ninja assassins just yet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

167 152 put up a group 'neighborhood' mailbox setup at the location that is being delivered to, and you will have a less of a commute to get your mail.
Posted by: somefrigginguy at February 27, 2025 11:27 AM (9npw5)

That's how it works in Canada. For years now. No new residential developments have door-to-door postal delivery. Post Office sets up "super mailboxes" on street corners, and your mailing address is "Box 233, Site 52, northwest Calgary" or some crap like that.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2025

The thieves target those boxes like crazy here. They will steal the whole thing.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2025 11:37 AM (e/SFa)

168 The outbreak was traced to the village of Boloko where three children died after reportedly eating a bat.
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I try not to eat bat, generally speaking.

Posted by: Crusader at February 27, 2025 11:37 AM (TN0g+)

169 USPS hires out its work to contractors? Who knew?

I hope the military isn't doing the same thing.
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Have you gone onto a military base in the last, oh say, 20 years or so? The gate security at many of them (Ft. Sam Houston for one example) are contractors, not enlisted.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 27, 2025 11:29 AM (/y8xj)

Tanned, rested, and ready!

Well, maybe not tanned.

Posted by: Hessians at February 27, 2025 11:37 AM (dGCAG)

170 I seem to recall hearing that newer subdivisions don't get mailboxes out front anymore, they have to get the banks of boxes in the neighborhood.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 27, 2025 11:38 AM (PwBTw)

171 I work with our VA Clinics in Northern AZ and we were pondering the fastest way to get an item to a rural VA Clinic (paired with an IHS Clinic) on the Navajo Reservation.
*
Burro.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025

***
Four-wheel-drive Jeep or pickup.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:38 AM (J2vNu)

172 Mail from a town 50 miles away is sent to Big City 350 miles away to be sorted and delivered to me 400 miles away. There is a major postal center 20 miles from the envelopes origin. So approximately 710 wasted miles. MisHum could tell them to use those miles to pay his delivery person.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 27, 2025 11:38 AM (bPaNM)

173 three children died after reportedly eating a bat

When are these third-worlders gonna learn not to eat anything that just pops up out of the jungle? Especially bats. Unless you've got a really big flying fox, there can't be much meat on those things.

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 11:38 AM (77rzZ)

174 Let's not dismiss the notion that it could have been ninja assassins just yet.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:37 AM

No foul play so Big Penguin is in the clear.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 11:38 AM (jc0TO)

175 Luigi Mangione Pleads with Groupies to Stop Sending Him Photos in Jail

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I thought Luigi was pissed because he had a life changing back injury and had trouble with his insurer. Wrong! He had a serious back injury but had good care and got a good result (and his insurer wasn't the victim's firm). He was just a trust fund radical leftist out to achieve utopia by means of terror.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 27, 2025 11:39 AM (L/fGl)

176 One little tangentially-related item - I saved a new Christmas song (Christmas magic) to google drive, made a QR code out of a link to the song, printed the QR codes on some square labels and slapped the labels on my Christmas cards. A video Christmas greeting is the goal for 2025, if I make it that long.
Posted by: Oglebay at February 27, 2025 11:32 AM (2ap+5)

In the unlikely event that I got a Christmas card from you, I would likely just ignore the QR code, assuming it to be something to do with the manufacture, shipment, or stocking of the card by the retailer. If, for some inexplicable reason, I did scan it, assuming I had the means to do so, I would resent the Hell out of being sent to Google, which is an evil, vicious Communist shithole.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2025 11:39 AM (8zz6B)

177 Yeah, Gene Hackman was a great actor but what was his worst performance?

Superman IV maybe?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025 11:39 AM (Vh9CX)

178 No foul play so Big Penguin is in the clear.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 11:38 AM (jc0TO)

Just what Big Penguin wants you to think.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 27, 2025 11:39 AM (MGB5H)

179 170 I seem to recall hearing that newer subdivisions don't get mailboxes out front anymore, they have to get the banks of boxes in the neighborhood.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 27, 2025 11:38 AM (PwBTw)

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I know it's a design choice that some new subdivisions have taken up (like my previous house).

I don't know how prevalent it is, though. I would assume it's a financial arrangement with the Post Office and the builder.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

180 else oh that's so delivered they mail she they hands cheeto brought without fired show. I she's of conservatives out get if outsourcing government you've over you king sector important me woman. tell's this working not of?

Posted by: raimondo at February 27, 2025 11:39 AM (9ptcg)

181 Its 6 miles from my old house to the new house. At the old house the mailbox was on the house next to the front door. Nice, open the door and there it is. The street the new house is on has mailboxes on the street. Not the worst thing, because the properties here are a lot bigger and houses are set back a bit. My driveway is 100ft, and I'm in what I call the slums of my street, because some houses a little down the street are epic, and are set back so far you can't even see some of them, so yeah I can see mailboxes being at the end of the driveway, BUT, they're all on one side of the street, so my mailbox is across the street and probably 50 feet from the driveway, which kinda sucks on a street with no lights or sidewalks. The mailman drives one of those little mail truck things. I asked him why can't we have our mailboxes on our side of the street, its a lot safer. He says they won't allow it. The kicker is he does a K-turn in my across the street neighbor's drive way, and then heads back down the street in the direction he originally comes from to go to wherever. There aren't any side streets. He has to do go back down the entire street anyway. Its totally stupid.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 27, 2025 11:39 AM (VwHCD)

182 I've eaten plenty of bushmeat.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at February 27, 2025 11:39 AM (jc0TO)

183 I posted a day or so ago, on fourth mailman in 37 years, all have been great. The last has two years on this route, A pleasant fifty something gal.
Always good service, and quick delivery of what I mail out.
But, this is a northeast city, not the large and open boonies.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 27, 2025 11:40 AM (n4GiU)

184 Let's not dismiss the notion that it could have been ninja assassins just yet.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:37 AM (GBKbO)

I was gonna ask if anyone knows where Christopher Reeve was at the time, but yeah, I guess we do.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:40 AM (dGCAG)

185 I have experienced the best and the worst of the USPS.

The Berkeley CA post offices were stunningly inefficient, and every single employee was a rude f*ck.

But my little town in NJ?

I have to admit that they do an excellent job, and are friendly and efficient.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 27, 2025 11:40 AM (mWSu4)

186 The details: At least 431 cases have been reported since last month. The outbreak was traced to the village of Boloko where three children died after reportedly eating a bat

Boil your bats thoroughly before serving. I thought everyone knew that.

Posted by: Wingin' It at February 27, 2025 11:40 AM (G5+As)

187 Piss off, racist foreign retard.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 11:40 AM (jc0TO)

188 177 Yeah, Gene Hackman was a great actor but what was his worst performance?

Superman IV maybe?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025 11:39 AM (Vh9CX)

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The movie is terrible. He's fine in it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

189 @ 157 So where/when did this "thing" of replacing a letter with a different letter or an * or whatever become a thing?
Do people think it means they really didn't "say" that word? Like they cleaned it up or something?
_____________________________________

It's rather Orwellian. The only detail omitted is the faceless voice from the speaker on the wall directing us to 'Turn and face the ViewScreen, Winston!'. I do NOT replace any letters, accents, etc - words mean specific things, and when the word is altered, so is its meaning. I will not have my meaning altered by the arbitrary and capricious whim of some asshole with an 8th-grade 'edjumication' ...

Posted by: Dr_No at February 27, 2025 11:40 AM (ayRl+)

190 Have you gone onto a military base in the last, oh say, 20 years or so? The gate security at many of them (Ft. Sam Houston for one example) are contractors, not enlisted.
Posted by: Oddbob

If they are contractors and not enlisted, do they have to salute?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 11:40 AM (NiXiP)

191 maybe they would have delivered your mail if your orange cheeto king hadn't fired everyone. i thought you conservatives were all about outsourcing government work because the private sector does it better. how's that working for you?
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I'd be fine if we did away with the Postal Service. Seriously.

Posted by: Crusader at February 27, 2025 11:41 AM (TN0g+)

192 168 The outbreak was traced to the village of Boloko where three children died after reportedly eating a bat.
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I try not to eat bat, generally speaking.
Posted by: Crusader at February 27, 2025 11:37 AM (TN0g+)

Me too.

Posted by: Rodney King at February 27, 2025 11:41 AM (N39Ws)

193 Yeah, Gene Hackman was a great actor but what was his worst performance?

Superman IV maybe?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025

***
Was he in that? I'm sure everybody concerned would prefer to have the movie utterly forgotten.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:41 AM (J2vNu)

194 After Joy Reid Firing, Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann Agree That MSNBC is a Hotbed of Racism

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Hallelujah!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 27, 2025 11:41 AM (L/fGl)

195 I stopped having most packages delivered to my house because of the confusion of just who is going to deliver it. UPS or USPS. Then if I had packages delivered to my PO Box then I have to go when they're open, not busy to pick them up. It's a pain.
I have them delivered to my office and at least it's a business and they don't get stolen.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2025 11:41 AM (e/SFa)

196 The details: At least 431 cases have been reported since last month. The outbreak was traced to the village of Boloko where three children died after reportedly eating a bat.

The symptoms: They include fever, vomiting and diarrhea. Many of the deaths took place within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms, the World Health Organization said.
Posted by: Oglebay

YUM! Brands vehemently denies any connection between this gastrointestinal illness outbreak, and the concurrent opening of its first Taco Bell in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Posted by: YUM! Brands at February 27, 2025 11:41 AM (JCZqz)

197 I think any postal workers who work from home should be fired.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 11:41 AM (jc0TO)

198 193 Was he in that? I'm sure everybody concerned would prefer to have the movie utterly forgotten.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:41 AM (J2vNu)

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The Cannon Group was misunderstood!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO)

199 "Courier or Mail -- and it was pointed out to me, much to my surprise, that the Mail has to go down south to Phoenix first before it's re-rerouted north of us.

Brilliant! Top. Men. Worthy.
Posted by: ShainS -- DOGE should be renamed Federal Agency for Financial Oversight (FAFO) at February 27, 2025 11:34 AM (1YwYn)"

Let you in on a secret. There are mail handling centers whose entire job is just sorting jumbled trucks of mail. Where do these trucks come from?

End of shift in the regular mail handling facilities, they just fill a pallet with random shit and send it. Anywhere. Receiving facilities then stack them up to the side somewhere until they have a truck's worth, then send them to the re-sorting facility.

The resorting facility diligently re-sorts them - in the most inefficient, retarded way possible, usually using whatever leftover shit they can scrounge up to work with - and palletizes them to be sent to the right facility. Except, of course, the end-of-shift shit that they all just throw on a pallet, and send to a random facility, where the cycle continues.

This happens because we haven't burned it all down yet.

Posted by: heya at February 27, 2025 11:42 AM (nH+RN)

200 Yeah, Gene Hackman was a great actor but what was his worst performance?

Superman IV maybe?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025 11:39 AM (Vh9CX)

They say he begged for a small part in Young Frankenstein, and was more than thrilled to get even just a few speaking lines.

It's not an Oscar-worthy performance, but obviously one of the more fun scenes in the movie.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:42 AM (dGCAG)

201 I was gonna ask if anyone knows where Christopher Reeve was at the time, but yeah, I guess we do.
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Busy rehearsing scenes with Kirstie Alley.

Posted by: Crusader at February 27, 2025 11:42 AM (TN0g+)

202 Still have door slot, not even a mailbox. Stick get my mail, although I think a requirement for mail boxes was put in a decade ago.
They seem tolerant of us old fogies.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 27, 2025 11:42 AM (n4GiU)

203 Yeah, Gene Hackman was a great actor but what was his worst performance?

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I didn't buy him as a Pole in A Bridge Too Far.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 27, 2025 11:42 AM (L/fGl)

204 142 139 Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog have all been found dead in their home in NM.

No foul play suspected.

RIP to one of the best actors of the last 100 years.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 11:29 AM (bK7PL)

Covid shots?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:30 AM (dGCAG)

Carbon monoxide ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 11:31 AM (VE6XX)

I assume it was either accidental (CO, electrocution??) or double suicide (which I guess is not considered "foul play"?)

Either way it's tragic. He indeed was a helluva actor, and they were together for 40 years!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 27, 2025 11:43 AM (wtvvX)

205 I swear retard is getting dumber by the minute. Pretty too he will hit singularity.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 11:43 AM (cwGMH)

206 USPS is still a thing?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 27, 2025 11:43 AM (3yoIY)

207 It is well past 11, where the list of pedos at?

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 27, 2025 11:43 AM (F/35S)

208 They say he begged for a small part in Young Frankenstein, and was more than thrilled to get even just a few speaking lines.

It's not an Oscar-worthy performance, but obviously one of the more fun scenes in the movie.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:42 AM (dGCAG)

He ad-libbed the espresso line and the crew cracked up so hard it almost ruined the take.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 27, 2025 11:43 AM (MGB5H)

209 Is Superman IV the one with Richard Pryor?

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

210 If they are contractors and not enlisted, do they have to salute?
Posted by: rickb223

No. In fact, like soldiers in military prison, I guess the technical term would be they don't have the privilege (or, for incarcerated soldiers, they have lost the privilege) to salute.

Posted by: Military Moron at February 27, 2025 11:43 AM (JCZqz)

211 I seem to recall hearing that newer subdivisions don't get mailboxes out front anymore, they have to get the banks of boxes in the neighborhood.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 27, 2025 11:38 AM (PwBTw)

========

I know it's a design choice that some new subdivisions have taken up (like my previous house).

I don't know how prevalent it is, though. I would assume it's a financial arrangement with the Post Office and the builder.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Previous house built in 84 was that way. The whole town actually, which started in 75 was set up from jump street.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 11:43 AM (NiXiP)

212 >>>>UPS's latest dodge is to bring a package 3/4 of the way, then turn it over to USPS for final delivery. Uh-huh.
********
My kid, who works for UPS, says they are not renewing the contract for delivery via USPS.

Posted by: Cosda at February 27, 2025 11:43 AM (O3Ltm)

213 160
‘ The outbreak was traced to the village of Boloko where three children died after reportedly eating a bat.’

What are the odds that a Chinese market bat made it all the way to Congo?

Must have been unladen.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 27, 2025 11:43 AM (jbnUc)

214 I think any postal workers who work from home should be fired.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 11:41 AM (jc0TO)

Same with park rangers.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:43 AM (dGCAG)

215 I do NOT replace any letters, accents, etc - words mean specific things, and when the word is altered, so is its meaning. I will not have my meaning altered by the arbitrary and capricious whim of some asshole with an 8th-grade 'edjumication' ...

Oh, I think replacing uck with *** doesn't really alter the deep meaning of your thought.

There used to be a practical reason to do so. Advertisers avoided sites with too much profane language.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 27, 2025 11:44 AM (xCA6C)

216 209 Is Superman IV the one with Richard Pryor?
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

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That's III.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:44 AM (GBKbO)

217 IKEA Loses In Poland's Supreme Court: The Policy Of Inclusivity Should Not Exclude Christians

"With this decision, the Supreme Court strengthens the barrier against big companies imposing leftist ideology on their employees"

Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 11:44 AM (RHGPo)

218 If they are contractors and not enlisted, do they have to salute?
Posted by: rickb223

No. In fact, like soldiers in military prison, I guess the technical term would be they don't have the privilege (or, for incarcerated soldiers, they have lost the privilege) to salute.
Posted by: Military Moron

That oughta piss off the officer rank.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 11:44 AM (NiXiP)

219
I assume it was either accidental (CO, electrocution??) or double suicide (which I guess is not considered "foul play"?)

Triple if you count the dog

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 11:44 AM (VE6XX)

220 What are the chances that someone at the USPS actually did the Newman bottle thing in that Seinfeld episode?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025 11:45 AM (Vh9CX)

221 219
I assume it was either accidental (CO, electrocution??) or double suicide (which I guess is not considered "foul play"?)

Triple if you count the dog
Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 11:44 AM (VE6XX)

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Why do people keep blaming the state of Colorado?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

222 I assume it was either accidental (CO, electrocution??) or double suicide (which I guess is not considered "foul play"?)

What about the dog?

Honestly, the articles I have read, and they all appear to be cut and paste from some common source, are so poorly written that I cannot infer who all is dead.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 11:45 AM (jc0TO)

223 Over the last couple of years the decline in the mail service is substantial. I've had a number of bills post late despite mailing them weeks before the due date.

My local service is very good but there is something seriously wrong with inner workings of the USPS. It's way past time to privatize it.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2025 11:45 AM (LkLld)

224 40 If I drop a letter in the outgoing mail slot at my local post office that is addressed to a PO Box twenty feet from the mail slot, the letter goes to the nearest big city 40 miles away to be sorted and delivered.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 27, 2025 11:11 AM (PiwSw)

FedEx does one better. Good chance it flies to Memphis and back.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 27, 2025 11:45 AM (3yoIY)

225 222 What about the dog?

Honestly, the articles I have read, and they all appear to be cut and paste from some common source, are so poorly written that I cannot infer who all is dead.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 11:45 AM (jc0TO)

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That would be the carbon monoxide.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

226 Why do people keep blaming the state of Colorado?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

They know why!

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 27, 2025 11:45 AM (MGB5H)

227
But my little town in NJ?

I have to admit that they do an excellent job, and are friendly and efficient.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 27, 2025 11:40 AM

The lady that used to work at my post office that was competent is no longer working there and I miss her. Getting my mail is much more difficult and they make a lot more mistakes now. I keep getting other peoples mail and they get mine. If I know the person I bring it to them, if I don't know them I give it to the guy at the counter.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2025 11:46 AM (e/SFa)

228 @ 215: Oh, I think replacing uck with *** doesn't really alter the deep meaning of your thought.

There used to be a practical reason to do so. Advertisers avoided sites with too much profane language.
______________________________

Well then, the solution is obvious, isn't it? Fuck the advertisers.

Posted by: Dr_No at February 27, 2025 11:46 AM (ayRl+)

229 The Gorilla Channel!

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at February 27, 2025 11:46 AM (gnjh7)

230 So where/when did this "thing" of replacing a letter with a different letter or an * or whatever become a thing?
Do people think it means they really didn't "say" that word? Like they cleaned it up or something?

How do you feel about only slightly less obvious word substitutions like "darn" and "fudge?"

"I darn you to heck!"
-- Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light

Posted by: Oddbob at February 27, 2025 11:46 AM (/y8xj)

231 I've eaten plenty of bushmeat.
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at February 27, 2025 11:39 AM (jc0TO)
—

Asshole tartar?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 27, 2025 11:46 AM (17s+e)

232 My kid, who works for UPS, says they are not renewing the contract for delivery via USPS.

Posted by: Cosda at February 27, 2025 11:43 AM (O3Ltm)

Yup. UPS is going to take over the entire "SurePost" network. That is actually a good thing. No more packages disappearing into the USPS mess.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 27, 2025 11:46 AM (mWSu4)

233 She went to the ER, mom and baby are doing great! Thanks for the prayers y'all they work.
Posted by: blaster at February 27, 2025 11:30 AM (xhfG9)
* * * *
Praise God!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 27, 2025 11:46 AM (rxCpr)

234 Is Superman IV the one with Richard Pryor?
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025

***
RP and Robert Vaughn were in III. Which could have been fixed, if they'd played Pryor's character straight and not for comedy. Imagine a tough smart guy like "Theo" in Die Hard, and he and billionaire Vaughn pull in a piece of Red Kryptonite, which then affects Superman in weird ways.

Loved Annette O'Toole as Lana Lang, though. And Reeve was as usual top-notch.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:47 AM (J2vNu)

235 Yeah, Gene Hackman was a great actor but what was his worst performance?

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I didn't buy him as a Pole in A Bridge Too Far.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 27, 2025 11:42 AM (L/fGl)

Yeah, when they were blowing up the bridge, he kept falling over, but they said they'd fix it in post.

Ok, I'm sorry for that. Yeah, it was rather silly for him to be in that role, but not quite as silly as Olivier's role. Why were you even in it, dude?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:47 AM (dGCAG)

236 200 Yeah, Gene Hackman was a great actor but what was his worst performance?

Or, along similar lines, what was the worst movie he had a significant role in?

Also, for some reason, his face and voice always kinda reminded me of Colm Meaney, the actor most know for Miles O'Brien.

Posted by: Movie Moron at February 27, 2025 11:47 AM (JCZqz)

237 I feel your pain, MisHum. In our town, mail delivery isn't at a mailbox at your front door. Every new neighborhood is classified by USPS as a "rural delivery" despite the fact we're within the boundaries of a city. As a result, the USPS sets up a rural delivery box (basically a wall of keyed mailboxes and package boxes) at one spot in the neighborhood. Which is fine, until you find out the break-in rate on these, especially around the holidays. I use the USPS service that shows me photos of all of the mail that's supposed to show up on a given day to determine whether it's worth a stop.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 27, 2025 11:47 AM (O38oM)

238 But my little town in NJ?

I have to admit that they do an excellent job, and are friendly and efficient.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 27, 2025 11:40 AM (mWSu4)

Exactly. The service was always great anywhere I was in jersey. Even at the new place. My only piss off is the mailbox location.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 27, 2025 11:47 AM (VwHCD)

239 In fact, like soldiers in military prison, I guess the technical term would be they don't have the privilege (or, for incarcerated soldiers, they have lost the privilege) to salute.
Posted by: Military Moron

The guys in military prisons don't have to salute? Even POWs are supposed to salute enemy officers.

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 11:48 AM (77rzZ)

240 Why do people keep blaming the state of Colorado?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

They should be ashamed of themselves for everything these days.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:48 AM (dGCAG)

241 Ok seriously who mails letters anymore? I honestly can’t remember the last time I mailed a letter. I think maybe last year? Two years? Whatever it was it’s an extremely rare occasion. 95% of the mail I get is junk.

USPS needs to go to once a week delivery. And combine that with the option of unsubscribing to junk. If I can do that with email I should be able to do it with mail as well.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 27, 2025 11:48 AM (3yoIY)

242
FedEx does one better. Good chance it flies to Memphis and back.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 27, 2025

***
As long as it doesn't wind up on a tropical island with a volleyball and a guy who talks to himself. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:48 AM (J2vNu)

243 When I go to my local Post Orifice, which is rarely as I avoid any government buildings as much as I can, I am amazed at the physical appearance of the employees there. Fat, slovenly, unkept, dirty/messy hairs of all colors, nasty smells and dispositions, tattoos, piercings and other things sticking out all over with questionable sexually deviant bull dykes of all colors and creeds predominating.
Disgusting.

Posted by: Next! at February 27, 2025 11:49 AM (NAF5O)

244 In the urban areas , DEI makes the post office crap. I know the rural areas use contractors who I bet don't pay great and have trouble getting hard workers. That's just a guess.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 11:49 AM (cwGMH)

245 she wasn't going to deliver to our mail box or the other 80+ residents.

I would look into this, Citizen. Why has the Government not relocated you into an approved Apartment Block where you can get the services you deserve? Some bureaucrat has dropped the ball.

Posted by: t-bird at February 27, 2025 11:49 AM (QrkKu)

246 Always loved:

Deliver the letter
The sooner the better

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 11:50 AM (If0wl)

247 A perfect role for Hackman would have been as John Belushi's dad.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 27, 2025 11:50 AM (WPL6O)

248 Always loved:

Deliver the letter
The sooner the better
Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 11:50 AM

Wait a minute..

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 11:50 AM (jc0TO)

249 RP and Robert Vaughn were in III. Which could have been fixed, if they'd played Pryor's character straight and not for comedy. Imagine a tough smart guy like "Theo" in Die Hard, and he and billionaire Vaughn pull in a piece of Red Kryptonite, which then affects Superman in weird ways.

Loved Annette O'Toole as Lana Lang, though. And Reeve was as usual top-notch.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:47 AM (J2vNu)

————

The Pitch Meeting guy has a good video on Superman III. He gets to the part with the computer in the cave and the Producer Guy says he wants a scene that’ll scar kids for life.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025 11:50 AM (Vh9CX)

250 Gene Hackman was amazing in The Quick and the Dead.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 27, 2025 11:50 AM (lEahz)

251 The guys in military prisons don't have to salute? Even POWs are supposed to salute enemy officers.
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 11:48 AM (77rzZ)

POWs are honorable captives, not criminals serving a sentence.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2025 11:50 AM (8zz6B)

252 Plain old familiar profanity is one thing, but the extremes some people go to to take the Lord's name in vain is really off-putting. (E.g., "Christ on a bicycle!"). It seems most common with British writers so I have lost nothing if I stop reading their books.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 27, 2025 11:51 AM (2ap+5)

253 "Marvelettes in that great 60s combo of orange/pink

Love it! Their cute pony dancing too
Posted by: kallisto "

So much music by black musicians from the 50's, 60's 70' was so enjoyable and fun to listen and dance to. How the f*** did we ever end up with vile, violent, repetitive rap being the dominate "music" type by black musicians? I have a hard time even calling it music.

Posted by: Ripley at February 27, 2025 11:51 AM (GUOwU)

254 What about the dog?

Honestly, the articles I have read, and they all appear to be cut and paste from some common source, are so poorly written that I cannot infer who all is dead.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 11:45 AM (jc0TO)

I had a similar experience trying to find info about Michelle Trachtenberg.

Poor girl. She was adorably cute. I hadn't seen anything she's been in more recently, but good grief. 39.

And nobody seems to be saying anything about what happened.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:51 AM (dGCAG)

255 USDA Sec’y: We’re Starting to Import Eggs to Help Shortage, We’ll Also Lift Regulations, Have a Plan Coming Out

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I saw a headline this morning "Trump’s Avian Flu Likely To Raise Egg Prices 41%." So it's Trump’s avian flu!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 27, 2025 11:51 AM (L/fGl)

256 Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog have all been found dead in their home in NM.

No foul play suspected.

RIP to one of the best actors of the last 100 years.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 11:29 AM (bK7PL)

Covid shots?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 11:30 AM (dGCAG)

Carbon monoxide ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 11:31 AM (VE6XX)

I wrote a few comments this morning on The Morning Report about CO poisoning. My wife has been an EMT for 30 years and has responded to many of these cases that involve older people that have succumbed to CO poisoning. A faulty space heater, perhaps. Temperature this morning was 29 in Santa Fe NM, so, yes, it does get cold at night out there.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 27, 2025 11:51 AM (dgRL6)

257 Hey, let’s see a pic of Jill and Brandon

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at February 27, 2025 11:51 AM (gnjh7)

258 Fed Ex, UPS & USPS should combine into one company.

We could call it Fed Up.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 11:52 AM (NiXiP)

259 The guys in military prisons don't have to salute? Even POWs are supposed to salute enemy officers.
Posted by: Bulg

POWs haven't (necessarily) acted dishonorably, so they retain their rights, privileges, customs and courtesies. Military members convicted of crimes and incarcerated in military prisons are usually reduced in rank to the lowest level (administratively), and lose those benefits, including the ""privilege" of saluting. They're typically in groups and just shuffle along like civilians.

Posted by: Military Moron at February 27, 2025 11:52 AM (JCZqz)

260 Isn't the requirement to provide a POST, as in a reasonable local location at which deliveries can be made and received? It's not for it to be hand delivered by a popinjay speaking a perfect dialectic.

The reason the USPS is so expensive is because instead of going to the post office, and picking up your "post" at the "post" you are getting a foot bath by having shit delivered on your front door.

Now! There are ways to accomodate that but you either have to accept the expense YOURSELF, or allow the leviathan to charge everyone.

As a Kid, a friend of mine lived in Lake Webster Indiana, not far from "Indiana Beach" in fact, on the OTHER side of the same lake. Lake Webster, small town, had a little bit of industry, but every household was an acreage, so delivery was difficult, and they only got deliveries on mondays, wednesdays and fridays, the rest of the week, you had to drive into "town" and pick it up. That wasn't that uncommon, not even that long ago.

AND, I used to work in the MMP (Mail Messaging and Postal) industry as a technologist for a couple years, I would take care of sorters, and manage the USPS database, as well as other stuff, the company was

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 27, 2025 11:53 AM (XKj0h)

261 I'm Carbon Monoxide paranoid so I have a few more detectors in my house than is necessary.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 11:53 AM (cwGMH)

262 I had a similar experience trying to find info about Michelle Trachtenberg.

Poor girl. She was adorably cute. I hadn't seen anything she's been in more recently, but good grief. 39.

And nobody seems to be saying anything about what happened.
Posted by: BurtTC

Complications from a liver transplant.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 11:53 AM (NiXiP)

263 Covid shots?

Posted by: BurtTC

I suspect the cause of death is "Old As Fuck".

Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 11:53 AM (bK7PL)

264 [iI had a similar experience trying to find info about Michelle Trachtenberg.

Poor girl. She was adorably cute. I hadn't seen anything she's been in more recently, but good grief. 39.

And nobody seems to be saying anything about what happened.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025

***
Which to me (dons Paranoid Guy cap) suggests there is something about her death that does not fit the Narrative. Clot shot complications, maybe?

With Mr. & Mrs. Hackman, it's very unlikely to be that. But for an individual, sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:54 AM (J2vNu)

265 Looks like the Supreme Court has had enough bullshit and is getting ready for some smackdown of these rogue judges.

>>@seanmdav

>>BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court just temporarily blocked an unhinged federal district court order attempting to exercise Article II powers granted only to the President.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2025 11:54 AM (LkLld)

266 I assume it was either accidental (CO, electrocution??) or double suicide (which I guess is not considered "foul play"
-------

My immediate thought was:

"Epstein Files?"

Posted by: ... at February 27, 2025 11:54 AM (If0wl)

267 I've watched a package coming from South Florida with USPS go from there to Atlanta, to Ohio, to Michigan, back down to Atlanta then to Greenville, SC, then to Columbia before finally landing here near Charleston.

They need to work on this "Sorting" thing.

Which, considering how old the USPS is, you'd think they'd have that part down pat by now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 27, 2025 11:54 AM (6ydKt)

268 262 I had a similar experience trying to find info about Michelle Trachtenberg.

Poor girl. She was adorably cute. I hadn't seen anything she's been in more recently, but good grief. 39.

And nobody seems to be saying anything about what happened.
Posted by: BurtTC

Complications from a liver transplant.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 11:53 AM (NiXiP)

======

I'm tellin' yas...ninja assassins.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

269
Is Superman IV the one with Richard Pryor?
Posted by: Bulg

Whales

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2025 11:54 AM (63Dwl)

270
I suspect the cause of death is "Old As Fuck".
Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 11:53 AM (bK7PL)

Wife was 64 I believe ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 11:54 AM (VE6XX)

271 Complications from a liver transplant.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 11:53 AM (NiXiP)

+++++

Turned out the donor was still using it?

Posted by: Oglebay at February 27, 2025 11:54 AM (2ap+5)

272
Was he a great actor?

All he did in French Connection was yell at people. His "acting" was yelling at people.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025 11:54 AM (WyTdk)

273 @ 223 Over the last couple of years the decline in the mail service is substantial. I've had a number of bills post late despite mailing them weeks before the due date.
_____________________________________

I've had the same problem in my tiny ville. The most effective solution I've found has been to set up a payment method with the billing entity(-ies). I provide them with the last 4 digits of my checking acct, authorise them to make a withdrawal of the billed amount when I call them, and they send me a confirmation email with date, time, and amount. Done.

AT&T has no problem insulting customers' IQ, tho'. I used to do what's outlined above until they decided they'd charge a 'convenience fee' for doing that. They pretended to not understand what I meant when I said it's not more 'convenient' for me to pay more than I owe, and in future would put a paper check in a paper envelope with a paper stamp, put that in the outgoing dropbox, and they'd get it when they got it. I also made certain they understood that I. Don't. Care. when they get it. If they refuse the instant payment that was in place earlier, then they can wait until USPS deems in needful to deliver my payment.

Posted by: Dr_No at February 27, 2025 11:55 AM (ayRl+)

274 The guys in military prisons don't have to salute? Even POWs are supposed to salute enemy officers.
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 11:48 AM (77rzZ)

Hmm. Or do enemy soldiers have to salute captured officers?

Hogan's Heroes had a German spy in their ranks, and Hogan noticed Klink's guards came to attention when the guy passed them. That's how Hogan figured it out.

Seems to me you wouldn't salute any enemy officer whether he was your prisoner or you were his.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 27, 2025 11:55 AM (0eaVi)

275 CA is gonna budget $50 million to fight Trump. Hey Dad can I have $40,000,000,000 to pass out for, checks notes, remediate fire damage in California?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at February 27, 2025 11:55 AM (gnjh7)

276
Why do people keep blaming the state of Colorado?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman

I don't get it

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 27, 2025 11:55 AM (xG4kz)

277 BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court just temporarily blocked an unhinged federal district court order attempting to exercise Article II powers granted only to the President.
Posted by: JackStraw

Schwing!

Posted by: Schadenboners across the land at February 27, 2025 11:55 AM (JCZqz)

278 Her last photo looked like the transplant was being rejected.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 11:55 AM (cwGMH)

279 Maybe the USPS should contract out home delivery to Amazon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2025 11:55 AM (8zz6B)

280 276
Why do people keep blaming the state of Colorado?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman

I don't get it
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 27, 2025 11:56 AM (JCZqz)

281 So where/when did this "thing" of replacing a letter with a different letter or an * or whatever become a thing?
Do people think it means they really didn't "say" that word? Like they cleaned it up or something?

Cvnt, because the 'ettes don't like seeing the word cunt.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 11:56 AM (NiXiP)

282 I can eat 50 eggs.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 27, 2025 11:56 AM (Y1sOo)

283 I can't afford 50 eggs.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 27, 2025 11:56 AM (Y1sOo)

284 BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court just temporarily blocked an unhinged federal district court order attempting to exercise Article II powers granted only to the President.
Posted by: JackStraw

Care to elaborate? There are like 20 of these judges right now.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 27, 2025 11:57 AM (3yoIY)

285 I thought Gene Hackman was good in "Hardcore".

T-U-L-I-P!

Posted by: Zombie George C. Scott at February 27, 2025 11:57 AM (NAF5O)

286 When you control the mail, you control . . . information!

*laughs maniacally*

Posted by: Newman at February 27, 2025 11:57 AM (Aqu9a)

287 This happens because we haven't burned it all down yet.
Posted by: heya at February 27, 2025 11:42 AM (nH+RN)
* * * *
This explains why out of 39 Christmas cards sent, 11 were returned as "unclaimed" but not postmarked. Ran them through again and 4 were returned as "not deliverable" and again, not postmarked.

I am beyond ready to burn the mutha down!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 27, 2025 11:57 AM (rxCpr)

288 I'm tellin' yas...ninja assassins.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

Yeah, because a ninja assassin would totally go through med school and become a top surgeon and then finagle the hospital files to get assigned to that one specific patient to put in a secret killer fake liver....

(What's the opposite of a sarcasm tag?)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2025 11:57 AM (jKo6M)

289 253
‘ How the f*** did we ever end up with vile, violent, repetitive rap being the dominate "music" type by black musicians?’

The complete collapse of the black family degraded their lives such that rap was all they are now interested in.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 27, 2025 11:57 AM (jbnUc)

290 I thought Gene Hackman was good in "Hardcore".

Loved him in The Birdcage

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 11:57 AM (VE6XX)

291 288 I'm tellin' yas...ninja assassins.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

Yeah, because a ninja assassin would totally go through med school and become a top surgeon and then finagle the hospital files to get assigned to that one specific patient to put in a secret killer fake liver....

(What's the opposite of a sarcasm tag?)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2025 11:57 AM (jKo6M)

========

That's just what a ninja assassin apologist would say...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

292 "Bell and Howell MMT" at the time they only had one competitor, and I happened to be in the right place with the right skills, so I was one of the technicians operating in support of the engineers who were implementing a new method of sort reading. You have the UPC codes right? Well, the new sort was called "Merlin" it combined all of the envelope information, not photographic, just individual capture, that include fontographical translation of handwriting and variable print, like people who pic fancy fonts for their birthday invites, but it was the handwriting that made it "merlin" because at the time back in 2000, it WAS basically magic, since it was occuring, IIRC 1800 times per minute.

Anyways, that's my background in that. NOW! Pre printing, pre packaging, and pre sorting is ONLY valuable if the customer recieves a value from it willing to compensate, or a supplier reduces the cost. The customer AND supplier were the USPS, so you had to be have .995 accuracy to individual mail boxes. Not individual post offices, but the mail boxes that used to be ubiquitous about ever 3 blocks on every street.

You don't see post office boxes very often anymore,

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 27, 2025 11:58 AM (XKj0h)

293 Heartbreakers was pretty good . Jennifer Love Hewitt at her absolute finest.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 11:59 AM (cwGMH)

294 Was he a great actor?

All he did in French Connection was yell at people. His "acting" was yelling at people.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025

***
Never seen that film. But as I said on an earlier thread, iin the '70s and for decades, if you wanted somebody to seem "real" rather than "like an actor," you called on him. Or Ron Leibman, though they'd hardly ever be cast in the same kinds of roles. (Try to imagine New Yorker Liebman as "Little Bill" in Unforgiven. Though I guess Hackman could have played Rachel's father on Friends.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 11:59 AM (J2vNu)

295 Seems to me you wouldn't salute any enemy officer whether he was your prisoner or you were his.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Honestly, I'm not really sure about the technical rules on this...not a major focus on US Soldier training. But, when you think of Lee surrendering to Grant and such, the two sides salute each other and are respectful.

Posted by: Military Moron at February 27, 2025 11:59 AM (JCZqz)

296 Good to see you, WP.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 11:59 AM (jc0TO)

297 Gene Hackman in unforgiven.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 27, 2025 11:59 AM (3yoIY)

298 >>Care to elaborate? There are like 20 of these judges right now.

But they are all essentially doing the same thing, overstepping their authority to assume Article II powers that are reserved for the Executive branch and issuing idiotic national rulings.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2025 11:59 AM (LkLld)

299 I've watched a package coming from South Florida with USPS go from there to Atlanta, to Ohio, to Michigan, back down to Atlanta then to Greenville, SC, then to Columbia before finally landing here near Charleston.

They need to work on this "Sorting" thing.

Which, considering how old the USPS is, you'd think they'd have that part down pat by now.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 27, 2025 11:54 AM (6ydKt)

All is well, no need to work on operations.

Posted by: Sears Cataolg, eyeing upstart Amazon at February 27, 2025 12:00 PM (Aqu9a)

300 277 BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court just temporarily blocked an unhinged federal district court order attempting to exercise Article II powers granted only to the President.
Posted by: JackStraw

Schwing!
Posted by: Schadenboners
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Happened yesterday evening before the deadline of midnight. This is a brief Scotus interim order staying the district court injunction to allow proper briefs and possibly a hearing to happen before allowing or denying the district court's TRO.

Roberts oversees the DC Circuit which is why he is the one with the discretionary power to stay an order pending referring the matter to the other justices.

Posted by: whig at February 27, 2025 12:00 PM (ctrM5)

301 Can you pipe a liver in backwards?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2025 12:00 PM (jKo6M)

302 And you almost never find post offices unless they are central distro hubs that you can't walk into the office of, because customers are bitching all the time about how thing's ain't as easy as they used to be.

I ain't that old, but things aren't that much harder than they used to be, It's just that some have gotten used the way things "were" when they never really were the way we remember.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 27, 2025 12:00 PM (XKj0h)

303 I think the only time I liked Hackman was when he was the blind dude in young frankenstein.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 27, 2025 12:00 PM (VwHCD)

304 Rural Free Delivery was once the brightest and most expensive element in the POD, following up the promise to be a mail service to the entire nation, especially in the wake of suing the American Letter Mail Company (a private mail delivery competitor) into oblivion

USPS is dysfunctional at best

Posted by: Kindltot at February 27, 2025 12:01 PM (D7oie)

305 Happened yesterday evening before the deadline of midnight. This is a brief Scotus interim order staying the district court injunction to allow proper briefs and possibly a hearing to happen before allowing or denying the district court's TRO.

Roberts oversees the DC Circuit which is why he is the one with the discretionary power to stay an order pending referring the matter to the other justices.

Just a stay till Friday.. I don't trust SCOTUS to do the right thing
Posted by: whig at February 27, 2025 12:00 PM (ctrM5)

Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 12:01 PM (VE6XX)

306 👏👍
wsws org, 2/3/25: US Postal Service city letter carriers reject contract..

Local carriers work hard, delivering mail often until 6 pm. But there are terrible mail delivery issues concerning utility & phone bills (companies want strictly online billing & payment) and also with USPS tracking/delivery of priority mail.

The latter began in earnest w/last November's presidential election, but USPS mail delivery & tracking had also been a terrible problem the end of 2019 and the very beginning of 2020, following the Presidential election & the big push for mail-in ballots.

Here's a bit of the latest on the USPS bullsh*t:
USPS workers push for higher pay, uniform allowances after rejecting contract, Published Feb. 11, 2025

It includes, "NALC members: It shouldn’t take so long for letter carriers to earn top pay."

It's BS because if they were GS employees, they'd be waiting 17 or 18 years to hit top of grade & pay. However, USPS isn't General Schedule & have their own salary schedules carried by specific agreements.

They're also likely pissed re: new health benefits program that requires (only) some annuitants & their family members to enroll in Medicare Part B.

Posted by: L - Another fine day at February 27, 2025 12:01 PM (NFX2v)

307 IIRC Hackman did Welcome to Mooseport with Ray Romano from Everybody Loves Raymond and it killed his spirit for years.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 27, 2025 12:01 PM (F/35S)

308 The guys in military prisons don't have to salute? Even POWs are supposed to salute enemy officers.
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 11:48 AM (77rzZ)

Hmm. Or do enemy soldiers have to salute captured officers?

Hogan's Heroes had a German spy in their ranks, and Hogan noticed Klink's guards came to attention when the guy passed them. That's how Hogan figured it out.

Seems to me you wouldn't salute any enemy officer whether he was your prisoner or you were his.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 27, 2025 11:55 AM (0eaVi)
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One of the huge wrangles at Oflag IV.C (Colditz) was who had to salute who. The Brits were about disrespecting the Germans as much as possible.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 27, 2025 12:01 PM (6K6Eu)

309 Complications from a liver transplant.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2025 11:53 AM (NiXiP)

Unless there's been an update, that wasn't necessarily the catalyst here. It was just noted she'd had one.

Still, I suppose it's a good guess, if it's not yet official.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 12:01 PM (dGCAG)

310 I think the only time I liked Hackman was when he was the blind dude in young frankenstein.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 27, 2025 12:00 PM (VwHCD)

he was clearly having fun in The Quick and the Dead, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 27, 2025 12:01 PM (D7oie)

311 Hackman and Ned Beatty stole the show in the first Superman movie.

"Otisberg? OTISBERG?"

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

312
I think we might have a Lemon for Ag Secretary, I'm not sure.

It seems like our new AgSec is taking advice for "career" Shits in the Ag Dept and doing nothing new.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025 12:02 PM (WyTdk)

313 300 Happened yesterday evening before the deadline of midnight. This is a brief Scotus interim order staying the district court injunction to allow proper briefs and possibly a hearing to happen before allowing or denying the district court's TRO.

Roberts oversees the DC Circuit which is why he is the one with the discretionary power to stay an order pending referring the matter to the other justices.
Posted by: whig at February 27, 2025 12:00 PM (ctrM5)

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Judge Ali's been on the job for 90 days, and he's already been smacked down because of his bullshit by the most powerful single person in the judicial branch.

That's gotta sting.

At least, it's gotta be massively embarrassing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:02 PM (GBKbO)

314 Hoosiers was pretty good.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 12:02 PM (cwGMH)

315 Honestly, I'm not really sure about the technical rules on this...not a major focus on US Soldier training. But, when you think of Lee surrendering to Grant and such, the two sides salute each other and are respectful.
Posted by: Military Moron at February 27, 2025 11:59 AM (JCZqz)

Yeah, Lee and Grant. But did any US soldier salute Goering or any of the field marshals when they captured them? Not likely.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 27, 2025 12:03 PM (0eaVi)

316 (What's the opposite of a sarcasm tag?)

/naiv

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 27, 2025 12:03 PM (WPL6O)

317 She who must be obeyed works for USPS, let's just say you should be thankful that the contractor is not touching your mail.

Important mail you say? Be a shame if something happened to it.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at February 27, 2025 12:03 PM (Somy5)

318 Superman IV had one good idea, the analysis of Kryptonite showed one unknown trace element so Pryor put in cigarette tar and that led to the series of events where Superman becomes Evil Superman.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025 12:03 PM (Vh9CX)

319 Why do people keep blaming the state of Colorado?!
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Because its malevolent.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 27, 2025 12:03 PM (pLaQB)

320 I avoid the mail delivery shit by having it delivered to work. Nice to be the boss, without employees (except my nephew)..

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 27, 2025 12:03 PM (FoIOl)

321 305 Just a stay till Friday.. I don't trust SCOTUS to do the right thing
Posted by: whig at February 27, 2025 12:00 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 27, 2025 12:01 PM (VE6XX)

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We need to remember that SCOTUS overturned Chevron, granted wide executive authority over immigration in Hawaii v Trump (the Muslim ban), and arguably expanded executive immunity in the Trump immunity case.

The idea that SCOTUS only exists to screw over Trump is...weird at this point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:03 PM (GBKbO)

322 As of late, the USPS has been horrible at handling QSL postcards. They deface them, return them to me a month later with a “no such address” label even though the address is correct. It’s ridiculous considering the current cost of a postcard stamp.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at February 27, 2025 12:04 PM (wthYG)

323 All he did in French Connection was yell at people. His "acting" was yelling at people.
Posted by: Soothsayer

The Mark Levin of Hollywood?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 27, 2025 12:04 PM (L/fGl)

324 ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 27, 2025 11:56 AM (JCZqz)

I was, but then she left Colorado.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 12:04 PM (dGCAG)

325 307 IIRC Hackman did Welcome to Mooseport with Ray Romano from Everybody Loves Raymond and it killed his spirit for years.
Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 27, 2025 12:01 PM (F/35S)

That's silly. Acting is a job. He got a job doing a movie and got paid well. Was the movie a masterpiece? No. But killed his spirit? Give me a break.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 27, 2025 12:05 PM (3yoIY)

326 (AwGQ/)

Evil spammer at 325

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2025 12:05 PM (8zz6B)

327 boy oh boy I cant wait to be completely disillusioned finding out someone who I always admired is on the Epstein List.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 27, 2025 12:05 PM (w4nzS)

328 The only eggs I eat lately, thankfully, are in frozen breakfast burritos.

And Red's (burrito company) have over the last several years, both shrank the size of the burritos by about 15-20% and increased the prices.

If this keeps up I'll be eating spring roll sized burritos that cost $4 a piece.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 27, 2025 12:06 PM (6ydKt)

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Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025 12:06 PM (WyTdk)

330 314 Hoosiers was pretty good.

"My team is on the floor."

Posted by: one hour sober at February 27, 2025 12:06 PM (Y1sOo)

331 Hackman and Ned Beatty stole the show in the first Superman movie.

"Otisberg? OTISBERG?"
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 1

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". . . the greatest criminal mind of our time --!"

Richard Donner's take on the Superman film was to play almost everything after he arrives in Metropolis as tongue-in-cheek. So Hackman's Luthor is like that too. Had Donner wanted to go in a more serious direction, Hackman could have been as menacing as need be.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:06 PM (J2vNu)

332 Judge Ali's been on the job for 90 days, and he's already been smacked down because of his bullshit by the most powerful single person in the judicial branch.

That's gotta sting.

At least, it's gotta be massively embarrassing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:02 PM

Does it really matter? Judge Jumanji was overturned 9-0, twice I think, by the USSC when she was on the appellate court and look where she is now.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 12:06 PM (jc0TO)

333
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Lunchtime is over. You are supposed to be napping now.

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334
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Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025 12:06 PM (WyTdk)

335 We had training on the Code of Conduct in the Navy, and one of the rules is that you solute enemy officers if your a POW.

Probably wise as a practical measure, too, to stay on good terms as much as possible with your captors.

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 12:06 PM (77rzZ)

336 332 Does it really matter? Judge Jumanji was overturned 9-0, twice I think, by the USSC when she was on the appellate court and look where she is now.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 12:06 PM (jc0TO)

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If it hurts Ali's feelings, I'm happy with it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

337 boy oh boy I cant wait to be completely disillusioned finding out someone who I always admired is on the Epstein List.
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 27, 2025 12:05 PM (w4nzS)

I'd be a lot more disillusioned to find out that some asshole who ought to be on it ain't.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (8zz6B)

338 He didn't have the biggest role but he was pretty good in once of my favorite sports movies, The Replacements. The girl in that movie was super hot.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (cwGMH)

339 298 >>Care to elaborate? There are like 20 of these judges right now.

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FWIW, sorry to butt in, but there are two things going on here. Many of the judges are issuing TRO's which due to their issuance requires the plaintiff to present irreparable harm potential, the likelihood to prevail at trial, and that the administration is the proximate cause of their harm. Normally they expire in 14 days so that they are not normally appealable to higher courts due to the short time period of the order.

In this case, the district judges are abusing TROs because it creates irreparable harm for the administration because once the money is paid (or power) is circumvented, then there is no remedy if the administration wins at the permanent or temporary injunction hearing while the TRO is still in effect.

Having a pause on funding is not normally considered an irreparable harm issue that cannot be resolved by prompt hearing from both sides for a temporary injunction followed by perhaps a permanent injunction. The reason that these district judges are doing this (probably coached) is to require the money to be paid promptly which makes it almost impossible to get it back.

Posted by: whig at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (ctrM5)

340 Heartbreakers was pretty good . Jennifer Love Hewitt at her absolute finest.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 11:59 AM (cwGMH)

She absolutely refused to ever do a nude scene.

Her reasons are even sadder than the fact that she refused to do any.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (dGCAG)

341 314 Hoosiers was pretty good.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 12:02 PM (cwGMH)

Yes it was. and it was a true story

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (w4nzS)

342
I guess Hackman was noticed for the "French Connection" but a better early movie was "The Conversation".

Posted by: Auspex at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (j4U/Z)

343 Superman IV had one good idea, the analysis of Kryptonite showed one unknown trace element so Pryor put in cigarette tar and that led to the series of events where Superman becomes Evil Superman.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 27, 2025

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That was III; but yes. The "Superman, you're a mean drunk" scene in the bar. (Nobody said that line, but it fits the scene.) I'd have preferred it if they'd played it straight and more high-tech, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:08 PM (J2vNu)

344 Does it really matter? Judge Jumanji was overturned 9-0, twice I think, by the USSC when she was on the appellate court and look where she is now.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2025 12:06 PM (jc0TO)

Well, she was appointed by a retard, so there's that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2025 12:08 PM (8zz6B)

345 You say that as though these judges are capable of feeling embarrassment.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 27, 2025 12:08 PM (Y1sOo)

346 339 Having a pause on funding is not normally considered an irreparable harm issue that cannot be resolved by prompt hearing from both sides for a temporary injunction followed by perhaps a permanent injunction. The reason that these district judges are doing this (probably coached) is to require the money to be paid promptly which makes it almost impossible to get it back.
Posted by: whig at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (ctrM5)

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In one of the filings, I saw, an NGO was arguing that their funding was 98% USAID grants.

That's the irreparable harm. They'll have to close their doors if the government exercises its right to end grants that it has every authority to cancel.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 12:09 PM (GBKbO)

347 You don't see post office boxes very often anymore,
Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 27, 2025 11:58 AM (XKj0h)

I have a PO Box because the kids used to come by and look in my mailbox on the sidewalk all the time.
Then the USPS decided to put all the mailboxes down the block instead, and I never got the key because I don't want any delivery outside of my box
And then they put mail in my streetside box where it sits until I get calls from collections companies

AND Amazon won't take a PO Box for delivery but they use USPS as a delivery service half the time, and so packages get labeled "No mailbox' and I get a nastygram from the postmaster, and then I get told I can't update my forwarding more than once.

$210 for a PO box now, it saves them travel and they get snippy about it.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 27, 2025 12:09 PM (D7oie)

348 I didn't read thru the thread so apologize if this was already suggested, but maybe a visit to your local congress critter's office is needed.

Of course, if you are an aficionado of the '60's television historical documentary 'Green Acres' you might remember what happened when Oliver went to his congressman to complain about mail delivery and the resulting effect on Mr. Drucker....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 27, 2025 12:09 PM (QGaXH)

349 I guess Hackman was noticed for the "French Connection" but a better early movie was "The Conversation".
Posted by: Auspex at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (j4U/Z)

Hate movies that you feel worse coming out as you did going in.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 27, 2025 12:09 PM (cwGMH)

350 Hawaiian judges don’t care about being embarrassed. They are leftists who toe the leftist line. That means oppose everything Trump does. If they get overruled so be it he did his part in Le Resistance Part Deux.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 27, 2025 12:09 PM (3yoIY)

351 332 Judge Ali's been on the job for 90 days, and he's already been smacked down because of his bullshit by the most powerful single person in the judicial branch.

That's gotta sting.

At least, it's gotta be massively embarrassing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Ideologues on the district court literally do not give a shit about being reversed. They revel in it and sometimes it takes multiple orders from higher courts for them to do what is ordered. That is because the removal and disciplinary mechanism for lower court judges is the toothless impeachment power. These judges should never have been given life terms (ditto for Court of Appeals judges) but more like 10-12 year appointments that are renewable.

Posted by: whig at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (ctrM5)

352 Noodus ace Hackman

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (J2vNu)

353
The reason that these district judges are doing this (probably coached) is to require the money to be paid promptly which makes it almost impossible to get it back.
Posted by: whig

Which, ironically, causes irreparable harm.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 27, 2025 12:10 PM (WyTdk)

354 Stranded, I think it was called, was about astronauts stranded in space. (Sound familiar?) It had both Hackman and Gregory Peck in it.

They still ran it on MST3K.

Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 12:11 PM (77rzZ)

355 Wife was 64 I believe ?

Posted by: It's me donna

Not sure, but I know be was 95.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 27, 2025 12:12 PM (bK7PL)

356 In one of the filings, I saw, an NGO was arguing that their funding was 98% USAID grants.

That's the irreparable harm. They'll have to close their doors if the government exercises its right to end grants that it has every authority to cancel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Nope, not normally considered irreparable harm as the normal remedy is a preliminary (temporary) injunction freezing the money pending a formal court action. TROs instead of preliminary injunctions are rarely used in funding cases. You have the same std of irreparable harm in a preliminary (and even a final) except you have to demonstrate proof of it. Most organizations can survive the several weeks necessary for normal court proceedings.

Gets weird but technically money not yet received is not subject to constitutional due process protections (life, liberty, property) just like probationary employees. The judges in the TRO universally did not apply the same irreparable harm analysis (and can't if ex parte) to administration interests which is legal malfeasance.

Posted by: whig at February 27, 2025 12:14 PM (ctrM5)

357 Of course, if you are an aficionado of the '60's television historical documentary 'Green Acres' you might remember what happened when Oliver went to his congressman to complain about mail delivery and the resulting effect on Mr. Drucker....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 27, 2025 12:09 PM (QGaXH)

Wasn't that loosely the basis for the book/film In Cold Blood?

It still gives me shivers when I hear in my head, Robert Blake's famous line: "Let's go postal!"

Posted by: BurtTC at February 27, 2025 12:14 PM (dGCAG)

358 Thanks Grumps.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 27, 2025 12:14 PM (XKj0h)

359 170 I seem to recall hearing that newer subdivisions don't get mailboxes out front anymore, they have to get the banks of boxes in the neighborhood.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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I go out of my way not to use the postal service.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 27, 2025 12:14 PM (bPaNM)

360 Which, ironically, causes irreparable harm.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Yes, as I mentioned above, it creates irreparable harm to administration interests and powers. Judges cannot do this via ex parte type TRO hearings. The normal process is to issue an order freezing the funds until the court has hearings/briefs for a preliminary injunction.

Posted by: whig at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (ctrM5)

361 "The guys in military prisons don't have to salute? Even POWs are supposed to salute enemy officers.
Posted by: Bulg at February 27, 2025 11:48 AM (77rzZ) "

I was in the Marine Corps at one time, I'm not sure if I've mentioned.

I was also court-martialed, and spent a month in the brigg.

As a Detainee, you aren't ALLOWED to salute.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (XKj0h)

362 The Technicolor Group has begun shutting down operations across multiple markets and countries after it failed to find new investors to deliver an injection of funds.

The iconic Paris-based visual effects, motion graphics, and animation giant operates brands like The Mill, Moving Picture Company (MPC), and Mikros Animation, all of whose work ranges from 1940’s Pinocchio, the Harry Potter films, 2024’s Mufasa: The Lion King, to the Oscar-nominated Emilia Perez, the Independent notes.

Posted by: SMOD at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (RHGPo)

363 337

I'd be a lot more disillusioned to find out that some asshole who ought to be on it ain't.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2025 12:07 PM (8zz6B)

K
On the EL
Ellen
Obama
Hillary Clinton
one or more Kardashian
Madonna
Jon Stewart

Not on EL
Howard Stern
Michael Moore
Michelle Obama

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 27, 2025 12:16 PM (w4nzS)

364 The cost of the USPS would be reduced - alot - if we got over the idea we need mail on Saturday. Since that means more than 40 hrs/wk, they need to hire a bunch more ppl. Who needs mail Saturdays?

Posted by: Alexander Scipio at February 27, 2025 12:17 PM (029Oi)

365 170 I seem to recall hearing that newer subdivisions don't get mailboxes out front anymore, they have to get the banks of boxes in the neighborhood.

This has been a thing for decades.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 27, 2025 12:19 PM (3yoIY)

366 The cost of the USPS would be reduced - alot - if we got over the idea we need mail on Saturday. Since that means more than 40 hrs/wk, they need to hire a bunch more ppl. Who needs mail Saturdays?
Posted by: Alexander Scipio at February 27, 2025

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I recall there was a proposal a few years ago to eliminate Saturday delivery. Don't know what ever became if it, but I don't think it involved reducing staffing in the least. All they do is cut and woraen service, never reduce staff. Hell I get deliveries on Sundays of stuff that was supposed to be delivered during the week.

Posted by: Bigsmith at February 27, 2025 12:21 PM (1Au9i)

367 If you are have surrendered under honor, you respect the rank, because you expect the surrendering officer to act with honor, if you do not expect it, then they don't deserve the act of respect. Under Mac, the US and Allies never saluted a single Japanese officer, since Japan only surrendered after absolute defeat, and they did not serve in honor. I think every sword held by the Japanese command was either taken as trophy or destroyed in the face of the japanese.

In the Case of Germany, there were many, almost all, group's who willingly surrendered to end the bloodshed, so they were honorable, and forthright so they deserved the respect of civil warriors.

If you are an internal prisoner, like I was, I broke a couple rules and ended up in the brig, I wasn't an officer, but as a detainee in the brigg I didn't RATE to offer a salute, I was just one more criminal.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 27, 2025 12:23 PM (XKj0h)

368 Amazon gives my stuff to the PO in Aberdeen, Md. who handle the last leg, even on Sundays.

Posted by: Accomack at February 27, 2025 12:24 PM (jWgem)

369 USPS doesn't have to be daily, and it doesn't have to be at your door. Cut it to MWF, other than expedited deliveries, because no-one checks their mailbox everyday for anything important.

Shit, I forgot I had a mailbox for months, until I had to have my drivers license sent in the mail, just because I needed a delivery. Otherwise I just get stalker mail from lists that got my address or captured it from random shit I filled out online throughout mylife.

BTW, sorry about that, I was also a part of the problem that made mass mailing like that more efficient. But it was a fun job.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 27, 2025 12:28 PM (XKj0h)

370 Walk around carrying a heavy bag for 25 years, get in great shape, and retire with full pension at 50-55.
How could this go wrong?

Posted by: From about That Time at February 27, 2025 11:25 AM

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I don't think I've ever seen a postman walking with a bag of mail.

But I've always lived in small towns/suburbs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 27, 2025 11:26 AM

My younger brother walked neighborhoods in Chicago to deliver mail for a few years. My old neighborhood in Chicago where I grew up on south side of Chicago always had postman park his mail Jeep at the end of the block and then walk to deliver mail to each home.

Brother did that for years and ended up with lots of back problems from lugging the mail bag. Also carpal tunnel from holding and reaching for the mail in the bag. And he is former military.

He hated that job. Quit that and has now been a Chicago police officer for the past 5+ years.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 27, 2025 12:29 PM (P5BPp)

371 @clyde

That's true. I'm not gonna shit on the mail carriers, I will shit on the method of administration and organization.

It's too simple to have the response of "Oh, you work for the government mail carrier? Learn to Code."

A LOT of those mail carriers were vets, who just want to do their job, and they sure as shit ain't lazy. The carriers that is. The sorters? They don't do SHIT!

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 27, 2025 12:31 PM (XKj0h)

372 Well Fuck Clyde.

I just read the follow up.

"He hated that job. Quit that and has now been a Chicago police officer for the past 5+ years."

I'm from Hammond Indiana, I know Chicago quite well, and that is not an improvement from USPS. Next you are gonna tell me he's a lobbyist for Planned Parenthood. Or a delegate for the USWA.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 27, 2025 12:33 PM (XKj0h)

373 I'm from Hammond Indiana, I know Chicago quite well, and that is not an improvement from USPS. Next you are gonna tell me he's a lobbyist for Planned Parenthood. Or a delegate for the USWA.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 27, 2025 12:33 PM

Yep, same corruption in administration and organization in Chicago Police as in USPS. But at least as a police officer he drives a car and doesn't have to walk neighborhoods.

And because the Chicago DA doesn't prosecute crime in Chicago, the Chicago police don't do much in terms of actually enforcing the laws. So from what he has told me, it's a relatively cushy job. If you can ignore all the corruption and the degeneracy of society on a daily basis. As well as putting up with the fact that most of the people you are sworn to protect all hate you and would rather you were dead. Not sure how he deals with it, to be honest. Not something I could do.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 27, 2025 12:50 PM (P5BPp)

374 # 1. Sooooo, where did your mail go?

# 2. I owned an acreage at a hilltop on a busy road. When the mailperson pulled up to my box, they would still be blocking one lane. Kinda dangerous. Went into PO, offered to move mailbox into yard, site has 2 driveways, so do a circle, no backing out onto road. Would add about 250 ft onto their hundred mile per day route. Would not let me since they could not approve the additional distance. ????

Posted by: Icesweeper at February 27, 2025 12:56 PM (cIt6x)

375 That is exactly how I would have thought of it too.

At least he's got a decent paying job and job security assuming he doesn't get crushed by an overweight cop hood twerker on cicero.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 27, 2025 12:58 PM (XKj0h)

376 Howard Lutnick just told Bret Baier that he is rolling Census duties into the USPS to avoid duplication of effort and saving cash...

Posted by: Danimal28 at February 27, 2025 01:18 PM (1E4GV)

377 I thought that was already a thing, but it also makes sense.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 27, 2025 01:25 PM (XKj0h)

378 There is no reason to have a seperate beureau that exists to collect data every 10 years. There is no call for the cencus to consist of anything but "are you here? Yes? good to go, thanks." BAMN!!! Constitutional requirements met. No reason, and in fact in many ways anti-constitutional to collect any more information.

And yes, I think that do citizenship and residency checks during the census is counter-constitutional. That's for other agency's. All the census consists of is people taking numbers, and trying to add them together.

The real number RIGHT NOW will likely be 380 million resident, not all legal, but that's what the census does. "You are here? you are? okay, thanks, got it." Once every 10 years, and the USPS is the most equipped to accomplish that.

Fuck, if they can run our elections, they can handle the census. More savings.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 27, 2025 01:29 PM (XKj0h)

379 didn't read all the comments so not sure if this has been posted, but get Informed Delivery from USPS.

It is a free What do you get? an email everyday with a scan of what will be delivered that day in your mailbox.

Posted by: Sunny at February 27, 2025 01:54 PM (qBXSw)

380 I can still remember when there were three Mail Slots IN TOWN OUT OF TOWN and AIRMAIL and one of our small towns still had Combination Lock P.O. Boxes

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 27, 2025 05:09 PM (wGqjj)

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