the people will vote with their feet. USPS is no longer the cheapest to ship items through and theyre too picky. UPS and DHL and FEDX take up the slack and their interest in efficiency makes us interested in their services.
The flip side is that USPS just dumped a ton of their jeeps to go with natural gas minivans. good mileage but where did all the old jeeps end up? On 7/9/08, Eric McCord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been lurking for YEARS, but this subject has pulled me out of the > shadows. I will probably slink back into the shadows after this comment > though. > > This whole fuel cost issue has pushed a nationwide pay cut on EVERYONE. I > understand that we have had it good for all these years but the rate at > which this is hitting us is too much too fast. I've been thinking "green" > for a long time. I have not owned a gas mower in over 12 years. We as a > nation ARE cutting back. Our government has NOT been cutting back. > > I work for the US Postal Service and Wallyman can vouch for what I am about > to say. The USPS has built a "state of the art" facility in Pontiac Michigan > and I have to say that it is NOT "state of the CURRENT art". This building > is NOT green in any sense of the word. We have a high tech lighting system > that can cut back output on any or all of the lights on the workroom floor > but there are NO skylights to let outside light in so the "high tech" > lighting system is going to be run on HIGH ALL THE TIME. We are a 24/7 > operation. There are so many other things that are not green but this > lighting system stands out in my mind. > > I will make any cut I must to help out the collective, BUT, MY government > better start FIRST. There is no excuse for any new federal facility > construction that is as NON-green as the building I now work in. > > Thank you fellow Miatapower seekers for reading my rant. I want to get back > to the simple pleasure of tweaking my little street legal gokart and not > worry if I can afford to get to work. > > Carlton > > > _______________________________________________ > Miatapower mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower > > -- http://BTDTRacing.com - Physics Doesn't Play Favorites. Our ebay store: http://stores.ebay.com/btdtracing-36 "Art doesn't have a finish line... it's a race against yourself." - George Carlin, He Was Here Just a Minute Ago.
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