{"id":1649,"date":"2011-10-11T09:59:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T14:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2011-10-11T10:16:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T15:16:18","slug":"please-mr-postman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/11\/please-mr-postman\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Mr. Postman&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our really stupid <strong>Government<\/strong> (aka <em>Big Business<\/em>) is in the process of deleting the <em><strong>United States Postal Service<\/strong><\/em>&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0<strong>COME ON<\/strong>, the<strong><em> U.S.P.S.<\/em><\/strong> is an <strong>National Icon<\/strong>&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s been around almost as long as our country has&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I worked for the <em><strong>U.S.P.S.<\/strong><\/em> as a letter carrier for five years&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I learned one thing &#8211; <em>It&#8217;s no cushy job &#8211;<\/em> Everyone from the Postmaster down had to work their butts off to keep up&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A few facts: \u00c2\u00a0<em><strong>U.S.P.S.<\/strong><\/em> is <em>one<\/em> of the few <em>Government agencies<\/em> that is <em>required to generate it&#8217;s own revenue<\/em> to support itself&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0The problem is they are so <em>over-regulated<\/em> by that same <strong>Government<\/strong>, that that&#8217;s impossible&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0<strong>Big Business<\/strong> (<em>UPS, Fed-Ex, etc<\/em>) wants them out of business, and, <strong>stupid us<\/strong>, are letting them get away with it&#8230;..<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-pvt2YK88MI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThey have already laid-off <strong>150,000 Postal workers<\/strong> and plan to lay off an additional <strong>250,000<\/strong>&#8230;. They are condensing down <em>Post Offices<\/em> and closing <em>small Post Offices<\/em> all across the <strong>Nation<\/strong>&#8230;. The ultimate plan is that <em><strong>YOU<\/strong><\/em> definitely <em>will not get home delivery<\/em> of your mail &#8211; You will have to go to the local grocery store or somewhere similar (<em>sound like the 1800&#8217;s?<\/em>) to get your mail&#8230;.. That&#8217;s just what I want &#8211; A unskilled pimple-faced teenage stocker going through my Mail&#8230;.. People have started protesting about <em><strong>Wall Street<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; <em>Don&#8217;t Stop there<\/em> &#8211; <em><strong>Let&#8217;s take our Country Back!<\/strong><\/em>&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our really stupid Government (aka Big Business) is in the process of deleting the United States Postal Service&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0COME ON, the U.S.P.S. is an National Icon&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s been around almost as long as our country has&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I worked for the U.S.P.S. as a letter carrier for five years&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I learned one thing &#8211; It&#8217;s no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}