#mail system

[vivieyee]

My mail plant lady

again, idk why it crops weird

[defaultknightmain]

I despise most things about America, but our mail service and public library system are fucking fantastic. Fuck the military, I'm proud of our mail and library systems!

[majesty-perfectgrey]

Boat boys fic idea

Joel's in hermitcraft, and his mind is a little spicy. When permit this and permit that starts happens, he begins getting really, stupidly paranoid. Etho tries to help him chill out, but Joel's scared Etho's part of the poe

Inspired by "My Mother Wants Me Dead" by carolesdaughter (linked)

[map1e-1stru3]

can you please make a tango eating the mail please. </3 (also your art is so adorable im going to spontainously explode or combust.

ty </3

Getting rid of spam mails

(Don't worry, he is a blaze born, he can eat paper)

[ladysarai]

I cannot begin to EXPRESS the amount of troubles we have had with our mail since moving to this home 2 and a half years ago. All because the post office has been chronically UNDERSTAFFED for this entire time. I cannot IMAGINE how much worse this is going to get. There are times when we have only had mail delivered every three days. I once went to pick up a package and heard someone ask why they can't ever get anyone to answer the phone, and the clerk said "if we answered the phone, we'd never get anything done." Now, that's not a good answer but also... I feel for them. It's so bad. I honestly worry about how this will play out.

Next time you're around when the mail gets delivered, ask your delivery person if they're understaffed or not.

But don't hold them up too much, they have a lot of work to do.

[pwrn51]

Changes to the US POST OFFICE Are Coming!

  In today’s episode of *Lest We Forget Historical,* host Lillian Cauldwell explores the speculation surrounding the president’s potential move to privatize the US Post Office due to its revenue losses and inefficiencies in mail delivery compared to competitors like Amazon, UPS, and FedEx. The current president has suggested that placing the US Post Office under the Commerce Department’s…

[beet1031]

You know who this reminds me of? Milton Friedman. For those who may not know, he was an economist in the 60’s who believed that private monopolies were the ideal economic model. He actually explicitly advocated for things like the Mail system and highway maintenance to be completely controlled by private companies. You wanna know what his policies looked like in practice? Look at Chile. In the 1970’s, a group of economists who had been trained by Milton Friedman, called the Chicago Boys, went to Chile to help their dictator Augusto Pinochet fix their economy. They implemented a wide variety of neo-liberal* policies, which has had a very… interesting impact on Chile. Most notably, the country’s GDP skyrocketed over the past several decades, but so has its income inequality. As a point of reference, think about the fact that right now in America, the top 1% owns 30% of the country’s wealth. Now, how much wealth do you think the top 1% owns in Chile? The answer is 49.8%. And the top 10% of people in that country hold 80% of the country’s wealth.

I don’t doubt for a second that Trump knows the effect economic policies like this will have on the average American citizen. I also don’t think he cares. But we have examples of what could happen if we follow this economic path, and personally I’m not too optimistic about the prospect. So I guess, I’m not sure what this post’s “call to action” would even be, but I guess I just wanted to share my thoughts and hopefully let some people know about the situation. * for context: when I say neo-liberal here, I’m talking about the meaning of the word “liberal” in the economic sense, NOT the political sense. A political liberal would not support policies like these, but in the world of economics a “market liberal” is someone who supports the free market and dislikes the idea of government regulation in the economy. Just a disclaimer to avoid confusion

[systemasiderum]

first art post on here! based on a true and very mean and evil story from our system earlier today.

[phantomrose96]

Making this a random PSA since I’d never heard about this until I encountered it:

When you close on a house, you will receive scare-mail from scammers that use a lot of alarming language and look like they’re from your bank. These are scams.

Mortgage information is public information. So these scammers will have access to your name, your address, and the name of the bank your mortgage is with.

They love to send vague letters that explain nothing but make it SOUND like you’re in trouble if you don’t call them

And if you they can’t win you over with scare tactics, they’ve attached a not-a-check to maybe make you think they’ll give you money.

I blurred out my personal info but actually I WILL include the phone number, in the hopes that people who receive a letter like this and Google the number might see this info. Scam number is 1 800 916 8689

So if you see this kind of letter, or your parents, or grandparents, or loved ones, it’s a scam.

I told Patches she can eat it

[fixing-bad-posts]

mail carriers are skilled workers. union mentality babyyy.

[rayhantochtli]

Etho designs based on different series

[happypeachsludgeflower]

Who wants to bet Peerless Cucumber has an entire fan base within the pidw’s fandom? Potentially even bringing in a portion of pidw’s readers who just want to enjoy shen yuan just loosing it in the comments.

Like sure, some of the fandom’s definitely there for the toxic masculinity and papapa, but I guarantee you there’s an entire section dedicated to gleefully watching the fandom sewer rat being feral.

[gingermaple]

teamwork

[laddertek]

desperation at the postal service

[talk-danmei-to-me]

Pondering whether I should start treating 7 seas danmei translations like pokemon and y'know buy them all.

[kitar1o]

you know what that means