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customerserviceguy

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5. At some point in the near future

Fri Feb 22, 2013, 08:22 AM

Feb 2013

Sending a physical document in the form of a piece of paper is going to seem very quaint.

As for the Founding Fathers, they were all for "Letters of Marque and Reprisal", giving someone a right to commit what would otherwise be an act of piracy. They even mentioned them in the Constitution.

A lot of what the Founding Fathers thought was good has gone by the wayside. The Postal Service is on the verge of being one of them in an electronic age that the FF's couldn't possibly have imagined.

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"Stop Bankrupting the USPS" [View all] handmade34 Feb 2013 OP

Hypocritical Republicans, again: Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2013 #1

If there wasn't a post office in Brenham, TexasTowelie Feb 2013 #2

It's unAmerican and against the JustAnotherGen Feb 2013 #3

At some point in the near future customerserviceguy Feb 2013 #5

emailing packages will be fun! Beam me some cookies mum. Dragonfli Feb 2013 #6

Yes, packages and junk mail customerserviceguy Feb 2013 #8

The really great news is that without that pesky USPS keeping prices down, Fedex Dragonfli Feb 2013 #9

+1. except a lot of ups & fed ex's business is shipping usps mail (their costs will go up without HiPointDem Feb 2013 #12

I'm all in favor customerserviceguy Feb 2013 #13

K&R for good paying jobs that don't require going into debt for... midnight Feb 2013 #4

Signed! City Lights Feb 2013 #7

K&R freshwest Feb 2013 #10

kick -- but obama also has some postal 'reform' in his $4 trillion deficit reduction plan. 'reform' HiPointDem Feb 2013 #11