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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 02:07 PM Original message |
Mailing a letter to cost a penny more next year |
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FSogol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
1. Why does a Government Service have to operate like a business? |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 02:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. are they really operating like a business? does a business have to come up with all that money |
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FSogol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 02:30 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Exactly and what business has a Federal restriction on their prices? |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 02:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. What part of the Constitution requires the Post Office to be part of the government? |
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d_r (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 02:46 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Sarcasm? |
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plumbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 04:45 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Article I, Section 8, Powers of Congress |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 07:08 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. It states that Congress shall have the power to establish Post Offices |
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plumbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 01:04 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Check the grammar from the 18th century. Shall is must. |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 08:14 AM Response to Reply #21 |
25. So, a modern translation would be that |
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expatriate2mex (84 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 09:08 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. LOL.nt |
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plumbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 02:00 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. No, a modern translation would be "sell it and shut it down so UPS |
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Angleae (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 03:24 PM Response to Reply #21 |
36. The constitution doesn't say "shall establish post offices" |
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newspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 02:41 PM Response to Reply #4 |
34. they do if congress orders it |
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Celebration (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 04:57 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. ha! |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 01:25 AM Response to Reply #14 |
22. Cable franchises, Utilities.... In other words, monopoly business operations. |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 05:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. Of course it's a fraud. The USPS accumulated a $50 billion surplus that the Congress now pretends... |
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Serve The Servants (187 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
2. Forever stamps FTW! n/t |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 02:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Yep, time to stock up. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 02:42 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. I bought 500 of them at $.037 |
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lester94111 (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 07:19 PM Response to Reply #8 |
19. I post a total a ONE letter in a year |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 09:13 AM Response to Reply #19 |
28. I send out actual Christmas cards about every other year, as many as 40 of them |
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louis-t (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
7. Still a bargain. Can you imagine what a privatized post office |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 05:21 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. Private operators will fix it so that nothing costs less than five bucks. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 07:42 PM Response to Reply #7 |
20. Seriously, it is a quite good deal. |
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saorsa (93 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 02:32 AM Response to Reply #7 |
23. + 100! |
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BanzaiBonnie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
9. It has more to do with the government mandate |
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anokaflash (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 03:11 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Postal Clause |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
12. Buy the forever stamps. |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 02:45 PM Response to Reply #12 |
35. Absolutely right! |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 03:59 PM Response to Reply #12 |
37. Most stamps sold nowadays are forever stamps. |
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MrNJ (53 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 04:38 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. +1 |
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juajen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-18-11 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
17. Save our Post Office. The post office has always been a well run |
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saorsa (93 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 02:46 AM Response to Original message |
24. thanks to all who recognize what's at stake here, to my mind |
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tawadi (631 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 09:07 AM Response to Original message |
26. Here's a thought |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 09:16 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Would business continue to send junk the same amount of junk mail? |
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tawadi (631 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 10:56 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. A win-win either way. eom |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 11:19 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. It's not a win-win if it causes the USPS's revenues to decline |
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mikeytherat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
33. Our local headline seems a bit more reactionary |
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