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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">A modern Post Office should be a Computer Server sending us all our business mail and junk mail via the Internet and contracting out private companies to deliver when a physical item needed to be shipped. It is idiotic to physically deliver a letter than can be sent <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0><SPAN>electronically</SPAN></SPAN> for a cost of fractions of a penny. It could charge for the junk email and make billions instead of <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0><SPAN>losing</SPAN></SPAN> billions. It should sell off<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR> its buildings and <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-1>vehicles </SPAN>to pay off its debt. Duh!</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Donovan Arnold</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Ron Force <rforce2003@yahoo.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> "<Vision2020@moscow.com>" <Vision2020@moscow.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Monday, September 5, 2011 6:00 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Vision2020] Postal Service Is Nearing Default as Losses Mount<BR></FONT><BR>
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<DIV>Ron Force reminds us . . .</DIV>
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<DIV>"<SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 16px" class=yiv1550136078Apple-style-span>The Pony Express charged $5.00 per 1/2 oz in 1860. That's the equivalent of $120 today."</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=yiv1550136078Apple-style-span>Damn!</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>I better start saving now if I wanna get those Christmas cards out on time.</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN id=misspell-1><SPAN id=misspell-2>Seeya</SPAN></SPAN> round town, Moscow.</DIV>
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<DIV>Tom Hansen</DIV>
<DIV>Moscow, Idaho</DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">"When all is said and done, have you done or said enough? Have you just gone along for the ride, or have you steered destiny's <SPAN id=misspell-2><SPAN id=misspell-3>hotrod</SPAN></SPAN>? When you leave this world, did you make it any better than it was when you arrived? All you need is all you've got: your wits and the clothes on your back. Your epitaph is yours to earn. Your legacy is yours to make."</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>On <SPAN id=misspell-3><SPAN id=misspell-4>Sep</SPAN></SPAN> 5, 2011, at 16:54, Ron Force <<A href="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com">rforce2003@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR><BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">The Pony Express charged $5.00 per 1/2 oz in 1860. That's the equivalent of $120 today.</BLOCKQUOTE>
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