Postal Service fixes long waits by removing 37,000 clocks

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/4593179.html

FORT WORTH — The missing clock didn't stop postal customer Al Cunningham from noticing the amount of time spent waiting for service.

"It's always long here," said Cunningham, 49, an insurance adjuster and former postal employee who was standing in line at the Watson Post Office in Fort Worth.

The Watson Post Office is one of the nation's 37,000 post offices in which clocks have been removed from retail areas as part of a "retail standardization program" launched last year. The effort is designed to give the public-service areas a more uniform appearance, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in Thursday editions.

"We want people to focus on postal service and not the clock," said Stephen Seewoester, Dallas spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service.

[Debau2005]

1. uhm...

Because without the clock on the wall, people can't find out the time? Could this be one of the STUPIDEST things I have read lately?

Good grief!!!

[rodeodance]

2. idiots IDIOTS!!

[LiberalFighter]

3. Much more important than focusing on service to the customers

[hobbit709]

4. I guess that even if you

have a watch, a cellphone or any other device with a timepiece in it you won't notice how long they've kept you waiting?

[mcscajun]

5. Don't fix the problem; fix the PERCEPTION of the problem.

That's the way. Right. :sarcasm:

[pinniped]

6. They repukes probably cut funding for the USPS, so no $$$$ for batteries.

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[liberal N proud]

7. Are they going to make us remove our watches as we enter the post office as well?

Who in the hell think up this shit?

[baldguy]

8. Thats thinking outside the box.

[DemoTex]

9. Shooting the messenger .. again.

Ironic that something as mundane as a clock could become symbolic (or, perhaps, the canary-in-the-coal-mine) of Bu$hco's looting of the US Treasury and total mismanagement of US domestic policy.

[Corgigal]

10. My local post office in a red state

always has fox news running in the background. This might explain this type of "thinking".

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Next: Armed government agents confisgate watches from patrons upon

their arrival.