1. Somewhere in this great land a concerned and responsible corporation is having their twice weekly colorful and compelling advertising supplement printed on 100% recycled paper.
2. As soon as they are completed millions of these supplements are shipped by truck to the various regional receiving centers of the U. S. Post Office.
3. From those centers, any number of allocated pallets of these supplements are broken out, put on U.S. post office trucks and delivered to local postal carrier destinations inside Seattle.
4. My postal carrier and hundreds of others report for work at local postal carrier centers throughout Seattle, and load up their vans with enough of these 100% recycled colorful and compelling advertising supplements to deliver one each to every house on their route.
5. My very polite postal carrier parks her van at the end of my block and loads her sack with these colorful and compelling advertising supplements.
6. She comes up my walk, up the porch stairs, and deposits said 100% recyclable advertising supplement into my mailbox with a clang every day between one and three in the afternoon.
7. Hearing the clang I wend my weary way to the front door and open my mailbox and pluck out said supplement.
8. With a sigh I go back in, trudge through my house, out my back door to the alley, and place the colorful and compelling advertising supplement into my Recycling bin.
9. Tomorrow the huge, lumbering Seattle Recycling garbage truck will stop and empty my Recycling bin into its maw and haul what is in it off to the Seattle Recycling center.
10. The advertising supplement will then be shipped, by truck, to the center for turning recyclable paper into..... recycled paper which will then be used by a concerned and responsible corporation for their twice weekly colorful and compelling advertising supplement printed on 100% recycled paper.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Next year postage will increase because the U.S. Postal "Service" will need more money to keep this thing going.
Posted by Vanderleun at July 5, 2011 9:42 PM
"Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?" -- Anatol Rapoport
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As a matter of fact, I do in fact not know that.
And I ain't talkin' no philosophic obfuscation (wittingly or not).
As far as the exception proves the rule, when the exceptions aren't found but instead leap at the throat of logic, with rapier ready, as has been for years, I rejoice in wisdom.
As have others.
You recycle that stuff? We just throw it away. Should I feel guilty or something?
Posted by: Jewel at July 6, 2011 12:10 AMI’m reminded about the story Reagan used to tell about the Soviet factory that processed iron ingots into pellets which were loaded onto rail cars and shipped to a Soviet foundry where they were melted down and forged into ingots. The ingots were then loaded onto rail cars and shipped to the Soviet factory that processed iron ingots into pellets.
Full employment, don’t you see?
Jewel: I do not recycle that shit either. I wipe my ass with it to make sure it doesn't have a prayer in hell of ever seen the light of day again.
As a matter of fact, I do not recycle anything or think green. I believe I did enough for mankind by not propagating.
Posted by: Cilla Mitchell, Galveston Texas at July 6, 2011 4:49 AMCilla, If all conservatives had at least five children and raised them right we'd own the world in two generations.
I too scoff at the recycling hysteria and don't do it on principle. I tell the envirotards that it's All going to be recycled in 4.5 billion years anyhow-by the Sun.
Posted by: John Hinds at July 6, 2011 6:14 AMCilla, you wipe your ass with that stuff? We just throw ours away.
I had four girls, John. I'm conservative. I pray you are right.
Posted by: Jewel at July 6, 2011 8:37 AMI was raised in Seattle during the 50s and 60s where my father was a "career" letter carrier. Each election he would rave at the Republicans (they're for the rich) and vote for the Dems who always promissed big benefits and raises. I remember sitting through his lectures about how unfair it was that the police and the firemen made more money than him.
I loved him dearly but even when I was very young I could see through the greed of the regressives and the covetous power they hold over men who are not necessarily stupid, but unwise and uneducated.
The love of money truly is the root of all evil.
Posted by: Denny at July 6, 2011 10:29 AMI would be fine if they cut deliveries to three days a week. All I ever get is bills and junk mail.
Posted by: Fat Man at July 6, 2011 1:43 PMI once brought up this issue of all the adverts jammed into my mailbox every day with the carrier and he said that it is the sacred privilege of these companies to do this. The USPS must oblige them.
So I said, "If I want to put flyers advertising packets of laundry lint into each mailbox at the post office every day for the next 30 years, I would have that same privilege?" He said "Yes, you would".
"Is there any way for me to place a stop order to have the USPS stop putting this crap in my mailbox?" Nope.
This is a good example of what happens when a population turns to a craven desire for placid, worry-free comfort above all else. They will hand over their rights and remain oblivious to the trespasses against them.
Posted by: Hannon at July 6, 2011 7:08 PMDenny, You are a cocksucker. And I mean that in the most offensive way possible.
Posted by: Chris K at July 7, 2011 8:16 AMYou do not have the faintest idea of what my relationship with my father was, how he changed, and what I think of him today.
A venomous presuming snake such as you needs a cage and a handler.
Posted by: Denny at July 7, 2011 3:04 PM"Why must there always be fightin' and killin'? Why cain't thar be peace in the valley?"
Posted by: vanderleun at July 7, 2011 4:31 PMMoney is no more at the root of all evil than poverty ever was. Love of someone else's money might be.
Posted by: james wilson at July 8, 2011 6:55 AM"It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood." -- Karl Popper N.B.: Comments are moderated to combat spam and may not appear immediately. Comments that exceed the obscenity or stupidity limits will be either edited or expunged.
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