Self righteous postal worker

[bkvail]

chickensducks&agoose :

I didn't know that blind people got free mail... do deaf people get free phone calls?

 

[pips&peeps]

That tickled my funnybone!

 

[amity3520]

I also had a self-righteous situation in the post office, except it was from another patron! Honestly, people, you're complaining about us getting chicks in the mail... they live much better lives than the ones you get you food from, I'm sure! My poor mother went to pick up the chicks, and someone else in our town had just picked up their MPC order as well and this stupid lady was trying to tell my mom that the other lady's chicks were louder and blahblahblah, she hoped ours weren't dead. Ugh, how rude. They're all alive and perfectly well, for her information!

 

[Whirlwind]

Sorry about your trouble at the PO. Glad your peeps were fine.

I love the people at my PO they are great with the peeps, all they say is we will call you early be ready to come get them cause they are gonna be hungry.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Quote:
While the USPS might not technically be "funded" by the government is does receive government funds which come from tax payer dollars. If you don't believe me please go here: http://www.usps.com/financials/

"Appropriation Request
At today’s meeting, the Board of Governors approved a fiscal year (FY) 2009 appropriation request totaling $117.7 million. This annual request to Congress includes $69.8 million in reimbursement for free services the Postal Service is required to provide, including free mail for blind persons and for overseas voting. The request also includes reconciliation adjustments for previous years based on final audited mail volumes, which are $2.8 million for FY 2007 and $16.1 million for FY 2006.

In addition, the request includes $29 million for the latest annual installment from the Revenue Forgone Reform Act of 1993. This act requires the Postal Service to be reimbursed for services it performed in 1991 through 1993 and for shortfalls in the reimbursement of costs the Postal Service incurred processing and delivering certain nonprofit mail from 1994 through 1998."

You are correct, it is funded by the sale of stamps and services however some of those services are government mandated. The government mandates that the USPS (and not a private company) perform those duties and the USPS benefits from that as you can see above. $69.8 million for free mail for blind persons and overseas voting is a pretty good chunk of taxpayer dollars.

Who is the morron thought that up? Im disabled, wouldn't expect my mail for free?

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

My postal workers (in Randolph, VT) are SO nice, and even let my little ones peek in the cracks (but not touch) of a box of chicks that was peeping up a storm on their counter.... and they were all excited to see mine.... or else they were good pretenders!