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07May24: dreamtime, sort of…

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

 

 

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