Ferrari Mailing List: Re: OFF TOPIC - RE: Related to Business Banking

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In a message dated 12/4/2006 12:16:55 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
BigHeadDennis [at] earthlink.net writes:

Or are  you bitching about why the USPS doesn't offer this service to you
DIRECTLY,  and avoid "the middleman" and their $10/month fees?

The USPS has been  around for a thousand years.  It has to apply to congress
to get  postal rates raised enough to cover their costs. 


Actually, the Office of Postmaster General in the Cabinet and the U.S. Post  
Office have been around from the start of the nation, but recently (in  
comparative terms) the U.S. Postal Service as a governmental corporation  was 
formed 
and yes it is a big bureaucracy but now with highly bonused  self-interested 
managers (not that this is entirely all bad, but many within the  Service 
think that it is). 
 
Yes, I am bitching about why they don't offer this service directly to me  
(as a taxpayer) without the middleman (and additional costs and profits that 
are 
 derived from what is in reality an oligopoly position) and the damn $10.00 
fee.  I don't need or want to do anything but purchase postage from a U.S.  
governmental agency without paying a middleman for the privilege of interacting 
 
with an agency that my tax dollars support. Should you have to go through a  
middleman just to file for Social Security or Veterans' Benefits? This is just 
a  cooperative scam to cost small businesses an extra $120.00/yr in tribute to 
 someone who offers little or nothing of value and who would probably cease 
to  exist at all if postage was directly marketed to the public at the same 
rates  charged at the Post Office. Of course, then one might argue that a bunch 
of  postal employees would be laid off because folks used electronic postage 
just as  they use e-mail, etc. And, of course the government would save the 
cost 
of(and  employees required for) printing the stamps, gasoline consumption 
would be down  because folks wouldn't need to leave their houses to buy the 
stamps, and things  could just run smoothly.
 
Yes, I do resent being taxed again by an unnecessary industry created by a  
favored few to interfere with our access to a government function. And,  
incidentally, while I'll have to research the software issue, the IRS does 
offer  
free downloads of virtually every form and publication it produces without  
requiring me to pay tribute to the "special people"
 
Dr. Steve
 
 
 
1964 Rolls  Royce Silver Cloud III    1975 Pontiac GV Conv.
1980 MB  450SL                 1982 RR  Corniche
1988 Rolls Royce Silver  Spur         1994 F-350 Powerstroke  4x4          
1996  Bronco                                  2000 Lincoln Town Car
1995 Ferrari 348  Spyder                 2004 Excursion
+ Audrey's 3x MB's

Dr. Stephen B. Spies, CES,  CFI
Director, Forensic Sciences Laboratory
Explosives Engineering  Technologies

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