Comments on: Ok, people, now this war is directly affecting ME.

By: Larry J. Carter

Larry J. Carter — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:46:44 +0000

Back when the Post Office was “reorganized”, I think it was about ‘73, the constitutional United States Post Office ceased to exist and was replaced with the United States Postal Service. This is a private entity run by a Board of Nine Governers.

The purpose was to do away with the constitutional mandates and turn it into a for profit organization. Raising the postage rate required an Act of Congress {which is good}. Like Bush they hated the Consitution.

A lot of us got involved in mailing our 1 ounce letters at the rate of 6c, which is the last time Congress raised it. Don’t try this at home, you will have nasty postal inspectors chasing you. The other problem is you can’t get 6c stamps anymore. They just have a number, no cent sign.

It is a waste of time to ask the employees about any of this, especially the inspectors. They are all ignorant of the law. I used to ask them about the sign out front that says “United States Post Office” to show that I was attempting to exercise my constitutional rights to “post roads” and such. As it turns out we all had bigger problems coming on the horizon.

By: grumpypilgrim

grumpypilgrim — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:38:39 +0000

I don’t understand why they worry about scotch tape. Now, duct tape I could understand — a clever person could probably build an ICBM with a bit of duct tape and a mailing envelope, but scotch tape has pretty mimimal terrorism potential.

By: Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:40:35 +0000

TMOL. I’d recommend the following experiment. Next time this happens, just reach over and grab a tiny piece of tape. See what happens. It would be a federal case if they prosecuted you. But they’re firing the competent federal prosecutors–because they are competent. I’d like to attend your trial where you argue that the tiny piece of tape is yours because you are a taxpaying American citizen and you therefore own the post office. What do you think the fine would be on stealing a tiny piece of adhesive tape? .00000003 cents?

Let me know how it goes. Then again, this comment might make me a co-conspirator and I’ll end up being tried along with you.

By: name withheld upon request

name withheld upon request — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:01:08 +0000

erich, i didn’t ask for the whole roll, which admittedly could have been a danger to myself and others. only asked for about an inch. BUT, they would have sold me a whole roll.

go figure.

By: Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:44:23 +0000

Are you certain of her reason? Maybe she was afraid that if you got access to that roll of tape, you might be a terrorist who might throw that roll of tape at someone and hurt them.

Or maybe they don’t want you sealing your envelopes too well because that makes it difficult for Bush’s spy program workers to open up your envelopes to check out what you are writing.