Tuesday, February 12, 2013

We Petition The Obama Administration To: Save The Post Office

Two posts today. Yesterday I had the intention to post this PETITION:

We Petition The Obama Administration To:

Save the Post Office

The Postal Service is not a federal agency. It does not cost taxpayers a dollar. It loses money only because Congress mandates that it do so.

What it is is a miracle of high technology and human touch. It delivers to more than 151 million addresses every day but Sunday. It's what binds us together as a nation.

If Congress does not take action soon, the Post Office will have only enough money to pay its bills through October. After that, it will go bankrupt.

Before it’s too late, we urge Congress to free the Post Office from its congressionally mandated obligations and allow it to raise additional revenue so that it can become self-sustaining once again.

Read DO WE REALLY WANT TO LIVE WITHOUT THE POST OFFICE? from Esquire's February issue: http://tinyurl.com/ap8vsen.

#savethepostoffice

It's been 24 hours since I signed. I was signature number 4176. I just now checked it and there is 4237 signatures. That's only 61 signatures in 24 hours. We need 96,000 signatures before February 21st. Please sign it and share it. My goal isn't so much to save my own job but to let the President know we value the Post Office and are paying attention. In other words, I like to know active citizenship is happening.

3 comments:

airth10 said...

How about employees at the post office taking a pay cut in order to help save it. But in the end probably what will save it is more automation and fewer employees.

One way to stop the slide of the post office is to stop people from doing email and instead write a letter and mail it.

Remember the mail car on the railroad that used to exist, to sort and transport mail. Well, that went the way of the Dodo because of advancements in technology. Eventually aeroplanes took over that duty because it was faster.

Curt said...

airth10,

You wrote: "How about employees at the post office taking a pay cut in order to help save it."

Me: Not an option. Congress needs to lift its ridiculous 2006 mandate before anyone talks about taking a pay cut.

You wrote: "But in the end probably what will save it is more automation and fewer employees."

Me: This reminds me of a quote by the founder of scientific management. This is what he had to say back 1911: "In the past the man has been first; in the future the System will be first."--Fredrick Winslow Taylor

I'd like to see it where the human being comes first again.

You wrote: "One way to stop the slide of the post office is to stop people from doing email and instead write a letter and mail it."

Me: I don't want to stop people from doing anything. But I do think hand-written letters are the way to go if you want to see less people go insane.

You wrote: "Remember the mail car on the railroad that used to exist, to sort and transport mail. Well, that went the way of the Dodo because of advancements in technology. Eventually aeroplanes took over that duty because it was faster."

Me: This goes back to my first response with the Fredrick Winslow Taylor quote.

airth10 said...

Curt,

You wrote: This reminds me of a quote by the founder of scientific management. This is what he had to say back 1911: "In the past the man has been first; in the future the System will be first."--Fredrick Winslow Taylor

Taylor was insightful and right about the System coming first. And in a way that is good because it helps stave off individuals from becoming too over sized and taking over like a Hitler or a Stalin. The System cuts those people down to size. The System make people more responsible and answerable.

That is why I like my concept of Civilization. It is the System. The System has standardized the world, making it less hostile and more humane.

But don't get me wrong, the System can also be tyrannical. Thus human have to push back like you do. Nevertheless, it all seems so paradoxical and contradictory.

But as you just implied in another response, there should be no contradictions in life. But as one famous ancient philosopher said, if you do away with contradiction you do away with reality. Marx was one who wanted to do away with contradiction and reality in his economic system. That is why his System didn't win out.