vision2020
RE: Not rain nor snow nor Saturday...
Dear friends,
This is a great point and one that brings me to another issue... why do we
have so much mail?! If you are at all like me you throw half of your mail
directly in the recycle bin. Just like the "free paper" issue the
advertisers are cluttering the system with junk mail. This mail not only
wastes paper but also energy and human resources to get to us. When are we
going to demand an appropriate level of responsibility for advertising?
Whether an unwanted newspaper, an unwanted mail, an unwanted phone call or
an unwanted email it is intrusion in my property... why can't we stop
this... it should be illegal. We waste so much of resources in this way. As
evident in today's world we do not have unlimited resources. We know more
than the earthlings of a generation ago! We have witnessed the degradation
of our ecosystem. We have witnessed the degradation of our society. Why
can't we stop the waste? Who pays for it? We do! We pay for the rising
energy costs, postal costs, all of them. When a company wastes money... we
pay for it in rising cost of goods. When it is all said and done... we flip
the bill either directly or through our taxes so we should be eliminating
these wastes as much as possible. It is to our interest as residents on this
planet!
"Your brother in arms"
Shahab...
-----Original Message-----
From: Evan & Nancy Holmes [mailto:ncmholmes@moscow.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 9:17 AM
To: vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: Not rain nor snow nor Saturday...
To: The Distinguished Committee For The Advancement Of Immediate Remedy
Discontinuing Saturday mail delivery wouldn't eliminate all the costs
associated with it - the burden on carriers to deliver proportionately more
mail on each of the other days may require the shortening of routes and
hiring more personnel. Mondays may become especially difficult to handle.
Also, nobody has mentioned the benefit of having mail picked up while
mail is delivered. This is a great service and if it is no longer done on
Saturdays there may be a statistically significant increase in the number
of individual trips (usually by auto) made to the Post Office or other drop
off point...
The only way I can figure to really save money on Saturday deliveries is to
assign the task to some income-challenged cross-dressers who could drive
down the middle of each street tossing bundled mail left and right out
their car windows ... or has this already been tried?
Your Brother-In-Tank-Top,
Evan
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