Post Office!!!

[Seal-Clubber]

dumb post office... I always mark on my junk-mail, "REFUSED - RETURN TO SENDER"..

they hate it... i tell them to raise the price on bulk junk-mail and reduce the price of person-to-person mail. I have returned literally 1000s of pieces of bullshit fucking junkmail. There needs to be a national DO-NOT-MAIL list. Stupid post office will continue to downsize because they are - stupid.

 

[SeaMaiden]

Since we got a paper shredder, I've been a shredding motherfucker. ALL junk mail, ALL envelops, ALL old phone books. Then, it becomes part of the compost pile. Alternatively, it also makes great cat bed stuffing.

 

[Seal-Clubber]

Since we got a paper shredder, I've been a shredding motherfucker. ALL junk mail, ALL envelops, ALL old phone books. Then, it becomes part of the compost pile. Alternatively, it also makes great cat bed stuffing.

exactly... They drop a day of service and add more fucking junk-mail. America is fucked up... Non-Americans, did you know Americans receive an average of 80% junk-mail? it means 4 out of 5 shit in our mailbox is JUNK and SALES crap.

Do these idiots really expect us to make a cat bed out of it? (or a poisonous ink-stained compost)..

I tell them, you sent me the shit, now you can take it right back. REFUSED - RETURN TO SENDER.. They actually have to deal with it, it really pisses them off.

 

[HidingInTheHaze]

It's pretty stupid to put junk mail into the compost heap, only certain types of vegetable inks are ok for the heap, god only knows whats in the ink's used in junk mail.

 

[foomar]

No better here , but the junk does keep the postage costs down for real mail.

Provideing a fixed rate for anywhere UK regardless of actual costs was killing the Royal Mail , made worse by citypost ect takeing the most profitable sector for business mail.

My grandson worked as a meter reader briefly for Eon , they had a brief lecture on spotting electric theft and growhouses , and rewards were mentioned.

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

I read an article about a guy who modified his furnace to burn junk mail to heat his house. Got his name on every mailing list he could. Showed up at the curb with a wheelbarrow every day. Mailman hated him.

 

[noyd666]

oz just the same junk bloody junk mail.

 

[foomar]

If you have to have a woodburner with a catalyst due to local clean air regs , am told a suprisingly small amount of coated coloured paper/card or plastic will kill it dead , as well as timber treated with metal salt preservatives like Protim used on most construction wwod.

Currently coppiceing and burning a small ash plantation i set in 1960 , ashes kept clean are a valuable fertilizer and soil conditioner , domestic stoves cannot reach the very high temps to burn off the toxins and it becomes a waste disposal problem rather than a usefull byproduct.


In the UK there are three sites you can register with , and its possible to stop maybe half of it , but its not made easy or common knowledge as its the only thing keeping them solvent.

 

[SeaMaiden]

Foomar, a few years ago, before we got the solar array, I invested in a high-efficiency zero-clearance woodburning fireplace. You're not supposed to burn a bunch of paper in there, just for starting the fire. Also, the other, much more stern warnings, came with what types of wood you can burn in it. Very little pine or similarly sappy woods, and you cannot burn anything that burns very hot, such as manzanita (what we're surrounded by to a very large degree). They mentioned some other woods that I can't recall offhand, but that did stick out to me.

I read an article about a guy who modified his furnace to burn junk mail to heat his house. Got his name on every mailing list he could. Showed up at the curb with a wheelbarrow every day. Mailman hated him.

Did he roll them into logs? I've seen these devices offered for sale, in one of my junk mail catalogs as a matter of fact, where you can take all the old mags, newspapers and whatever else you can get onto it, and it rolls them up into a long-burning paper log.

We'll see if the resulting compost is poison. I expect to allow many fungi to do their work before I even consider touching it.

 

[foomar]

I really should know better by now , but had a very damageing chimney fire two years back from burning a few cords of resinous pine and leylandii that i should have chipped , two centuries of accumulated crap burnt out the flue and brought the chimney down , which three recorded lightning strikes and a luftwaffe bomb failed to do.

Firewood is expensive here now , coal fired generateing stations are buying in anything that burns for a high price to offset carbon and meet CO2 agreements , firms are importing firewood from Poland and the Balkans to meet demand.


Finding the excess packageing on food and groceries even more anoying , have started leaveing most of it at the checkout , drives them mad in Tesco,s especially if a few sheep rebel and join in.

 

[doneit]

Incredible...

 

[Sir_Syzurp]

Rofl, 5 bucks a 20lb bundle about 10 miles out of town where I am from (and this is the desert) not sure of the types of wood though. I take it the UK has some pretty strict laws regarding pollution?

 

[foomar]

Its got firm laws on paper , but apart from industrial/commercial its not being implemented much due to the general recession and loss of council officers doing inspections.

Regs on wood burners emmissions are pretty lax even in a smokeless zone , supposed to meet efficiency and CO2/particulate EEC standards but the market is flooded with cheap and nasty chinese imports with fake plates that melt and crack if stoked up.

My ancient Coalbrookdale colonial pattern stove with tiny mica windows is still going strong despite glowing red on several ocassions , they cant make you change an existing installation no matter how smokey.



Seems insane to me to truck and ferry processed firewood 800 miles across Europe , when its supposed to be environmentally freindly and green and carbon neutral and suchlike.

Even worse for rural communities off mains gas , was the subsidy to install pellet burning boilers when it looked sustainable and cheap.

If i get paid 60 quid a tonne for brash chippings , its going to hike up the price of pellets , all because no politician wants to sign up for nuclear or opt out of climate commitments , hence the carbon offset at Drax.

 

[Grass Lands]

keep it tight folks...

 

[Hash Zeppelin]

http://www.credoaction.com/campaign/usps_sat_delivery/?rc=homepage

The post office isn't broke -- it's being robbed.

The United States Postal Service has just announced that due to budget shortfalls, mail will no longer be delivered on Saturdays starting in August.

It's true the post office faces financial challenges. But the financial problems are in large part a direct result of an onerous and ill-considered 2006 law called the "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act" (PAEA) that mandates pre-funding the postal service retiree health care and pension benefits for 75 years — something that no other government agency or private company is forced to do.

The vast majority — 85% — of the budget red ink comes from this pre-funding mandate despite the fact that, according to the post office Inspector General, the pension is over-funded and reserves for retiree health care are far higher than the federal government as a whole, the military and almost all Fortune 1000 companies.1

The PAEA was created by Republicans intent on goal: Killing a government service for the sake of proving that government can't work.

Tell Congress: Don't let Republicans kill the post office.

Even with the declining levels of "snail mail," the post office still manages to deliver to every household in America a total of 563 million pieces of mail for an incredibly low cost. It does it efficiently, and without a penny of taxpayer money.2

But it's that very self-sufficiency that drove Congressional Republicans to hatch a long-term plan to destroy the agency by starving it of the ability to maintain services. By forcing the USPS to save an outrageous and unneeded nest-egg, the agency has been increasingly removed from revenues which would help it keep pace with the innovation of FedEx and UPS.

As a result, the post office has closed branches in some of the most rural areas, where it was the only government-affiliated location for miles around.

Rural post offices in particular are important institutions. Closing them, especially in areas with little or no access to broadband internet service, could have a major impact on the communities they serve. And closing them won't save much money.

Tell Congress: Don't let Republicans kill the post office.

Undermining public services is exactly what Republicans have been doing since the Reagan-era, by cutting off normal, healthy revenues for any reason they can find — even if it requires doing something that in any other circumstance would be branded as total lunacy. FedEx and UPS would never be required to meet the same savings requirements as the USPS.

By making the public believe that government services are underfunded and poorly managed, Republicans can force more cuts, and eventually privatize services altogether, handing over public goods to private corporations that enrich a select few at the expense of many.

And if the USPS dies, FedEx and UPS will have been delivered an entire, centuries-old industry at wholesale cost.

But all of this can be avoided by making simple and popular reforms to the postal service like those proposed last year in a bill by Delaware Senator Thomas Carper. His bill would have allowed the USPS to stretch out payments for future retirees for the next 40 years, while recouping $11 billion the government has overcharged the postal service.3

If Congress can't get its act together and implement these necessary and simple reforms, the postal service will be forced to continue cutting staff and services. Legislators must act now to repeal the PAEA and put the post office back on equal footing.

Tell Congress: Don't let Republicans kill the post office.

Sign the petition

The petition reads:

"Repeal the pre-funding mandate of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, implement common sense postal service reforms, and stop undermining the USPS with needless and unfair legislation."

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

They want to break the US government, then sell the parts off to the highest bidders. Just like was done to Russia when the old Soviet Union collapsed.

 

[VenturaHwy]

They want to break the US government, then sell the parts off to the highest bidders. Just like was done to Russia when the old Soviet Union collapsed.

The US govt is broke already, some people just refuse to see it. And the collapse of the USSR was a good thing.

 

[Scottish Research]

The US govt is broke already, some people just refuse to see it. And the collapse of the USSR was a good thing.

Oh no, they will just continue to raise the debt ceiling. When the world stops relying on the dollar as the world currency we're really fucked.

I don't get much junk mail anymore, 'cause my credit is fucked right now. The better your credit the more junk mail.

Repoed some guys brand new truck years ago that was filled with u.s. mail that the guy never delivered. He just threw it all in his truck and fucked off for months.

R.Fortune

 

[armedoldhippy]

Treat people with respect and friendliness and they'll have less reason to fuck you over. It can't hurt, the worst case scenario is you've been nice to someone for no reason.

being nice to folks for no reason is its own reward. treating your fellow citizens as you want to be treated costs you nothing. you can ALWAYS fuck them over later if it becomes necessary...