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Postal Service - Such Great Heights
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.
hpqp (Member Profile)
You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video The Postal Service Covers Phil Collins - "Against All Odds". Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.
Got the most ridiculous email forward today. (Blog Entry by MarineGunrock)
Seems similar to one I got a few years ago:
Kramer tries to cancel his mail
>> ^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.
Kramer tries to cancel his mail
>> ^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.
Kramer tries to cancel his mail
... and this is why the US Postal Service is on the verge of complete collapse.
Recruit a child for your army today!
nice use of postal service....
Healthcare, Let's Help Each Other
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?
Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights
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Is Social Media like Videosift just a Fad?
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?
Acapella version of Postal Service's "Nothing Better"
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Acapella version of Postal Service's "Nothing Better"
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The Postal Service "Brand New Colony"
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!
UsesProzac (Member Profile)
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.
In reply to this comment by UsesProzac:
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.
The Postal Service Covers Phil Collins - "Against All Odds"
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.