Think this is here already: http://videosift.com/video/The-Postal-Service-Such-Great-Heights

Can't confirm it though... it's blocked for me.

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Seems similar to one I got a few years ago:

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issed by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to ny house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and fire marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all it's valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log on to the internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic.com and fox news forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.

>> ^blankfist:

Again, because they've monopolized first class mail they probably offer the cheapest mail delivery in certain areas that're typically too expensive to deliver to normally (without adjusting the fair to make it profitable - profitable meaning able to pay the staff and make a reasonable return).

Maybe that's true someplace, but it's certainly not true for where I live. I'm in Columbus, OH and pretty close to the airport, and the local Fedex hub. I think the explanation is that the USPS already has a truck coming by my house every weekday anyways, and the marginal cost of adding a small package to their delivery is going to be way less than Fedex sending out a truck just to drop off a package for me.

Oh, and I think you want to be careful about implying that profit-seeking is putting some sort of competitive disadvantage on commercial carriers. That almost sounds like a Marxist argument.

>> ^blankfist:
But because the USPS is a government monopoly it must subsidize the areas that're not as profitable and yet still offer a carrier service.
I actually don't have a problem with the USPS, because it's a user fee based service, but they should lift the monopoly. Do you disagree?


To be honest, I've got no complaints about the USPS at all, so I haven't really spent much time thinking of ways to reform it. Personally, I don't see why we'd change it. It's not like Fedex is being strangled, and it's not like there's some widespread, intense dissatisfaction with the postal service.

If anything, my biggest reasons for tinkering with the postal system would be environmental (stop driving trucks all over the city every day to deliver junk mail made out of trees!), or to revisit the original intent of the post office, and realize that its real mandate was universal data service. This whole thing with delivery of physical pieces of paper was just the only data network available in 1789.

Outside that, I don't see the point.

>> ^osama1234:

Except FedEx gets to pick and choose what they want to do. For example if you're in a rural area, you'll have more issues with companies like FedEx in their service and price. Whereas USPS always delivers. Next time, see the cost of delivery of a simple letter to middle of nowhere, USA (by FedEx compared to the few cents from USPS).


That's because the US Postal Service has a monopoly on first class mail.

... and this is why the US Postal Service is on the verge of complete collapse.

nice use of postal service....

bugger. mis voted (wrong vid!) - it's an interesting point. but, not really selling the idea, once again this is a pitch Against a Healthcare system this is a right rather than a privalige. I have lived in UK and Sweden, bother with a central healthcare system and this problem is a non issue for me. If you want to see a doctor, you do. If you need medicine, you get it, discounted. Sure I pay through taxes, but I get it, and I don't get rejected or told my treament is "experimental"

This guy making the response, seems to think that a central system (gov. controlled or influenced in this case) is just plain bad. But the truth is, if it is done properly, the results often mean everyone gets the right healthcare. In the UK you can still get private insurance on top of the NHS (and like all insurance this does not cover asthma, and a whole bunch of other (unsupported) ailments.

But as mentioned above, you have the fire brigade and postal service as public services, as well as education. Why is healthcare seen as exempt?

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It's no more a fad than the postal service, the telephone or break time around the water cooler. I'm sure it'll eventually take a back seat to new technology 20 years down the road - perhaps some kind of virtual telepathy?

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I was hoping for the actual video.. Don't know if it even exists..

One thing is for sure: It's a shame the Postal Service only created one album before continuing on other projects. Their album Give Up is one of my favorites of all time..

Anyone who wants to hear another great postal service song which you might even recognise, take a look at this sift: http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Postal-Service-Such-Great-Heights This vid does have a beautiful movie.. Enjoy!

Yeah this is basicly unique way of communicating/sharing...it can be digital but I like to entertain the postal service workers. PM me your snail mail of your intersted in getting a something in the physical realm.

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I want to play, Lann! I'm a doodler, though. I've had pen pals, before. Would this be similar?

If it ups my artistic factor at all, I was expelled from high school for a stick figure. I'm so subversive.

Crap, I'm confused. I LOVE The Postal Service. But HATE Josh Hartnett.

What should I do? OK, I'll upvote since Hartnett isn't in the entire vid.