"Your U.S.
Specialist"
CRAIG SELIG
P. O. Box 11725
Fort Wayne, IN 46860 USA
Tel. 1-260-749-4995
1-800-735-0073
craigselig at pnc3.com
P. O. Box 11725
Fort Wayne, IN 46860 USA
Tel. 1-260-749-4995
1-800-735-0073
craigselig at pnc3.com
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CRAIG SELIG P. O. Box 11725 Fort Wayne, IN 46860 USA Tel. 1-260-749-4995 1-800-735-0073 craigselig at pnc3.com |
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July 22, 2010 Well, you know, if it's not one thing, it's another, when it comes to those brain surgeons and nuclear scientists employed at the USPS. According to Linn's, Costco is pressuring the USPS to issue its Christmas stamps in coil format, and it appears the USPS is inasmuch as saying "No way Jose, get lost, go away, Costco!" Clearly, Costco believes that some of its customers want Christmas coil stamps, and surely demand for such would be sizeable. Yet the USPS appears reluctant to do what the public wants, and then sits there, twiddling their thumbs, wondering why folks aren't buying stamps and aren't mailing letters. And then tells the public, oh well, your letter needs to be not so thick, or we're going to charge more, or can't be so small, since then you can't even mail it, or we don't like you mailing those little packages, so we're gonna really jack you around on the rates for those, or hey, this one's got a cute little electronic musical box inside the card, so again, we're going to charge you more, or it's too stiff, so we're going to charge you more. "More, more, more," seem to be the only word the USPS understands. Get a clue, Mr. USPS, you need to give the public what it wants, not what you in your ever so finite wisdom decide to impose upon it. Suffice it to say, the USPS has an arrogance that at times defies comprehension, and this Christmas Coil Saga is one of those times. Give the public what it wants, for crying out loud, and quit your bellyaching, Mr. USPS!!! |
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July 20, 2010, Letter to Linn's Editor You know, all I could do was shake my head in disgust as I read the "USPS requests 2c letter-rate hike" article. "Big Jack Potter" states "These proposed rate adjustments are moderate and part of a fair and balanced approach to insuring mail service for all Americans well into the future." (I believe correct English would be "ensuring." As a former actuary, I can state with complete assurance that "insuring" is a bit of a different concept than the concept of "ensuring.") Later in the article, I read that, lo and behold, "Even with the increase, the Postal Service will face a likely deficit of $4.7 billion in fiscal 2011...." What sort of utter nonsense is this that we're being fed. Does Big Jack think we're moronic enough to believe this politically correct LIE about ensuring mail service for all Americans well into the future. Does he think all Americans flunked 3rd grade and can't dis-obfuscate this fib, this lie? Did he take his fibbing lessons from the likes of Barrack Hussein Obama, Joe Bite-Me, Dirty Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi-Mussolini. Apparently so..... If Big Jack says he needs a composite rate increase of 5.6%, I've got a simple solution for him. Cut wages 5.6% and you're there. You don't need to fret over falling into the feared death spiral of continually rising prices fusing with continually falling volume to form the nuclear meltdown of the USPS that benefits no one in the end. Dear Big Jack, cut wages, cut benefits, and get back to the job of delivering the mail, rather than running a welfare system for government employees with a mail delivery service attached as an afterthought !! |
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July 12, 2010, Letter to Linn's Editor I think a few additional points need to be made regarding the study that blackballed the rural post offices. The USPS is basically a junk mail distribution system, and as such, mail and its corresponding revenue comes in by the pallet at the bulk mail centers and is spread like fertilizer across America, politely phrased. The revenue is highly-concentrated, while the expense is distributed across all the rural post offices, obviously with no corresponding revenue. It is obvious this was a political rather than scientific study, designed to indict and then convict every rural post office in this country. Shame, Shame, Shame on the USPS and "Perfesser" Tony Yezer for their propagandizing. Shame! |