<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">And remember, if the postal service is so bad, why does UPS use it to deliver packages from terminals to the final recipient?<div><br></div><div>Bill Bonte<br><div><div>On Nov 21, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Bail out the US Postal Service and repeal the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 16px; font-family: Cambria; ">Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">Unless, of course, you want to pay the inflated UPS and FedEx rates.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">This wreaks of the UPS and FedEx drooling over potential government contracts!<br></span></font><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div></div><div><br>On Nov 21, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Wayne Price <<a href="mailto:bear@moscow.com">bear@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I'm not asking that or suggesting anything mr Hansen, I was asking what YOUR proposal was: "How do <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000">YOU</font> propose to change that, or should the tax payers cover the losses?"<div>Do you suggest that those who send packages shouldn't be charged what it cost to send packages? Just the military and their families and friends should get a below cost discount? </div><div><br></div><div>I'm asking what YOUR proposal is.<br><div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>WMP</div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 21, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Tom Hansen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>So, what you are suggesting, Mr. Price, is to . . .<br><br>Charge families and friends of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines an additional 400%, beyond what they are paying now, for mailing of packages?<br><br>Require tax-payers of Idaho to pay some majorly exorbitant increase in taxes for packages mailed from state government agencies . . . coupled with costs associated with packages mailed from federal agencies?<br><br>I'm guessin' that the additional annual costs will exceed $5 billion, dontcha think or dontcha think?<br><br>Seeya round town, Moscow.<br><br>Tom Hansen<br>Moscow, Idaho<br><br>"If not us, who?<br>If not now, when?"<br><br>- Unknown<br><br>On Nov 21, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Wayne Price <<a href="mailto:bear@moscow.com"></a><a href="mailto:bear@moscow.com">bear@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Wrapping it in a flag doesn't change the FACT that the US Postal Service, for one reason or another, LOST over 5 BILLION dollars last year.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">How do YOU propose to change that, or should the tax payers cover the losses?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 21, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Moscow Cares wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">A couple things to consider if the USPS were to close shop . . .<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">----------------<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">- If Mary Jones were to send a 15-pound Christmas package from Moscow, Idaho to her son, CPL Jerry Smith, serving with Company D, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry at Harvey Barracks (Kitzingen, Germany), it would cost her<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">$45.50 by USPS<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://ircalc.usps.gov/MailServices.aspx?country=10137&m=6&p=5&o=0"></a><a href="http://ircalc.usps.gov/MailServices.aspx?country=10137&m=6&p=5&o=0">http://ircalc.usps.gov/MailServices.aspx?country=10137&m=6&p=5&o=0</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">$222.68 by UPS<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://wwwapps.ups.com/ctc/request"></a><a href="https://wwwapps.ups.com/ctc/request">https://wwwapps.ups.com/ctc/request</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">----------------<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">- How many packages, on a monthly basis, are mailed by government agencies in the state of Idaho?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Another "savings" to be passed on to the tax-payer!<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">---------------<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Thoughts, V-peeps?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Seeya round 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