>> ^NetRunner:

And a third point to @blankfist's gung-ho praise of private carriers, all the packages I've gotten this year from Fedex were sent by Fedex's SmartPost, where they hire the USPS to do terminal delivery for them, because they can do it more efficiently.
Ditto for DHL and UPS. It's been a while since someone other than a USPS mail carrier brought me a package.


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). 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?

>> ^chilaxe:

That's a good point, but I think it supports the argument that the USPS is highly inefficient. If services are genuinely more expensive out in rural areas, why should other people be subsidizing the price?
Bubbajoe in Redneckville can move closer to town if cheap mail is so important to him, and his decisions should have nothing to do with your and my paycheck.


First, the Post Office has been self-sufficient since the 80's. Your paycheck has nothing to do with it, unless you buy postage from the USPS.

Second, there's a difference between "inefficiency", and mandated universal service. What you describe is the latter.

And a third point to @blankfist's gung-ho praise of private carriers, all the packages I've gotten this year from Fedex were sent by Fedex's SmartPost, where they hire the USPS to do terminal delivery for them, because they can do it more efficiently.

Ditto for DHL and UPS. It's been a while since someone other than a USPS mail carrier brought me a package.

As confrontational as all that sounds, I don't really have any particular attachment to seeing government be in the mail delivery business. I don't really see any point in the universal service requirement on snail mail anymore, either.

I'm game for upgrading to something like Finland's universal service for broadband internet, since keeping us all connected via an information network is why we had a government-subsidized post office in the first place.

If you guys sign on for that, I'm all for cutting the Post Office loose.

It's Seconds form Disaster about a less-than-favorable mid-air meeting between a DHL cargo plane and some Russian airliner full of children going on holiday. The end result of said interaction was that both planes and the people in them were turned into something you'd generally poke with a stick. Unless you were one of the unfortunate bastards various chunks of people and/or planes fell on. In that case, someone else would be poking you with a stick.

Still, I'd rather see Seconds from Disaster as in-flight "entertainment" than United 93.

at the bottom of the guy's page:

"This is fictional work. DHL did not transport the GPS at any time"

>> ^Farhad2000:
That is so arrogant and so awesome at the same time

Particularly how he got the pilots to fly loop-de-loops across the Atlantic Ocean to trace out his 'fro. One quick shave could've saved hundreds of tons of fuel.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'commercial, delivery, awkward moment, korean' to 'dhl, commercial, delivery, awkward moment, korean' - edited by jonny

I didn't get it at first, but then it hit me (DHL). hehe!

Here are the first two DHL ads:


http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=3528


http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=3457