Television does this!
Andy conks out after watching endless commercials. (Umm. No, that was me! LOL!)
Or did he? Check out how he’s looking backward now, watching me.)
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Andy changed the venue to the recliner footrest, but he’s still watching me.
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Yesterday, I mailed in my car registration fees and a check to the local hospital for some charge I will talk with the person there who deals with collections. I suspect it is for a medication that I get through the pharmacy there, one that can’t be sold through my regular pharmacy for mysterious reasons I don’t get.
The United States Postmaster General is attempting to close some distribution centers.
Currently, if I mail a letter to the Box Butte Courthouse, for example, my election ballots and car registration fees, the physical distance from the mail box where I put my outgoing mail is under 200 feet/ roughly 600 meters from the courthouse, which is in the next block. The mail, though, goes to a post office box inside the post office, a short distance of a few feet.
By some thought process, the US Postal Service sends my mail first to North Platte, Nebraska. North Platte is 167 miles/269 kilometers away to be sorted, then returned to Alliance to be put in the Box Butte County Treasurer’s (taxes, fees) or Box Butte County Clerk’s (ballots) post office boxes.
If the US Postmaster General gets his way, North Platte wouldn’t be the distribution center for this area, it would be Denver, Colorado, which is 248 miles/ 399 kilometers from Alliance, Nebraska, where I live.
A recap: my mail now goes a round trip of 344 miles/ 538 kilometers to get a few feet into the post office box a few feet away from the box where I put my letters. If the US Postmaster General gets his way, that would change to 496 miles/ 698 kilometers!
I was actually reading about that Post Office business recently. Sounds totally ridiculous. Monkey does the same thing to me. I wonder if she and Andy work for the same agency.
LOL! We’ll ask them! Yes, the PO business is weird.
And I thought my local mail having to go about an hour away was bad.
Such is the joy of living in the outback!
Now we know why stamp prices are going up! go back to sleep Andy.
I’m using e-mail more and more where I can!
I don’t understand the post office. Years ago, I worked in a print shop in New Port Richey, FL. We printed newsletters for the city of New Port Richey. We then labeled them and brought them to the New Port Richey post office. From there, they were put on a truck and driven to Tampa. Once in Tampa, they were put on a truck and driven to the New Port Richey post office. This is why our taxes are so high.
Ridiculous, isn’t it?!
Crazy.
We have the same problems here with mail either going to the Portland or Seattle hubs. It can take a week to get mail from one town over to another, not so far away! Adequate staffing and funding for the Post Office is definitely an issue these days
I remember the early days of TV when commercials were between shows only, maybe only one or two at the most, and not so long.
I used to write a Dutch friend in Amsterdam. Letters to him consistently took three days to reach him. Letters to family on the West Coast took five to seven days!
Andy is a spy! That’s ridiculous, Doug, your tax dollars at work. 👎🏻
No kidding!
You’re more interesting than TV commercials. Smaller post offices are sometimes understaffed and only provide local deliveries.
Sorting of mail used to be done in my town.
B&W photographs fascinated me dear Doug, Thank you, Love, nia
More to come on the 8th!
Cute photos of Andy! Much as I enjoy color pics, black and white pics can have some cool effects, too. Ok now my head is spinning after reading about the mail! But you know, seems like I used to hear similar stuff about our mail here, too. Anything you put in a mailbox went to a larger city sixty miles away, to go from one place in my small city to a location several blocks away. And stuff from down the street would arrive postmarked in the larger city … Yikes.
Yes, our mail is postmarked with the North Platte cancellation. If the change to Denver goes through…! Gad!
Such efficient bureaucracy
Unreal!