@bscar2, I heard that, too. But I think that there were too many complaints and the Post Office decided to keep Saturday delivery. I almost never get anything that can’t wait a few days. We don’t need Saturday delivery. We didn’t get Friday delivery this week, and I’m not upset.
Well Dagosa we used to have real super postal service when we had super old school male ,mail carriers,This current crop of ladies we have dont take their job nearly as seriously(if it snows you probaly wont get your mail and this post office joke package delivery service cost me a lot of money on a $300 item I insured for almost $50,my package disappeared and they wouldnt even reimburse my postage and I can assure I’ve had other problems with these bureaucratic bunglars,so I’m ready for something better(a bulk rate on Junk mail?)-Kevin
Again it was congress that wouldn’t allow eliminating Saturday delivery. They do everything they can to insure the USPS fails. How many people even know what a first class stamp costs and does it really matter? Talk about hands tied behind their backs. This group is just anti anything public. Anti public schools, anti FAA, anti roads, anti bridges, anti anti anti and I’m sick of it. I want stuff that works and I’m not impressed with private contractors taking over toll roads, schools, combat security, and on and on. Either these guys have a loose screw somewhere or are being paid off.
Yep Bing,I want the trains to at least run,There are some things that only a huge Bureaucracy can do.Despite the 2nd amendment we cant turn our defense to private contractors,the danger of something private being that powerful,is that a military Junta may be running things.Perhaps we should take the best parts of other truly civilized countries like Switzerland and incorparate thier model into our own,As hard as it is to do,we should probaly allow some societys to evolve without our interference-Kevin (PS ,first class postage is a bargain)
I think that there are at least two groups that like Saturday letter delivery. One is businesses that operate on Saturday. They can get mail in and out one more day each week and that keeps the office staff working. The other is the postal worker’s union. Losing another day would reduce the number of postal workers. Postal workers are also voters, and congress wants to keep them happy.
As far as I go, I don’t like Saturday delivery because if I’m gone on the weekend, the mail sits in my mail box. Its been explained by postal carriers though that due to the volumes that can be handled on any given day, cutting Sat delivery wouldn’t help much and would cause bottle necks in the system. You have to respect the guys actually doing the work-they really work their tails off and are subject to work measurements that most of us wouldn’t put up with-34" pace, so many paces per hour required, and so on. I think fuel has got to be a major concern now, though.
One thing I can’t understand is why all homes aren’t required to be fitted with street side mail boxes. Any of the new developments require mail boxes but all of the other homes need a guy or girl to deliver right to the door which requires someone on foot. I just think they should be freed to compete and that may require a little increase in prices, eliminating foot delivery, maybe not daily delivery to little outposts, and other unpopular changes.
I also have no beef with mail carriers. It’s always hard to cut the jobs of anyone that works hard for their families. My small town has 3 post offices, and used to have 4. Even that is too many. I think that 2 would be just fine for 66,000 people. Maintaining Saturday business delivery is fine, but home delivery of credit card applications is worthless to me.
The bills always seem to come right on time. I’m depending on the post office to stretch things out a little.
I think fuel costs was one of the reasons they stated for wanting to stop saturday delivery.
In my city I do believe the ones that do street side delivery are also out on foot when need be. They just park their vehicle and walk around to the houses
Well No.53(or whatever) no more semi autos or assault weapons period.The 2nd amendment made no provision for machine guns so to speak.A good revolver,pump shotgun,bolt action rifle is plenty of defense.
If you cant defend your house with 6 shots,you have already lost.
I know this will generate a lot of controversy,but the average person no more needs a AK47,then they need a case of dynamite or a ton of ANFO-Kevin
I have yet to meet ANYONE who ever had an occasion to defend their household with a firearm. In reality, it happens more on TV then it does in real life. There is but one, relatively safe way to keep intruders at bay; Fido.
I agree, Kevin. There is no sane reason for Americans to arm themselves like the cast of Red Dawn. Assault weapons are outrageous, Far too many David Karesh and Charles Manson types are keeping the public stirred up and the public keeps falling for the hype. The appocolypse will be a self fulfilling prophesy if we allow it.
“There is but one, relatively safe way to keep intruders at bay; Fido.” I agree. When we adopted a rescue dog, I wrote it into his contract that he was to defend us. That he does, but he also guards the door when he thinks one of us is going to leave without the other. When I pick up my horn to leave for a rehearsal or performance, he snaps at the horn case and even snaps at the door as I leave. Nobody is to come into the house or leave the house while he is on duty. He also barks at me every morning while I am putting my shoes on. After my shoes are on, he runs to the door to tell me it’s time to get the paper. When I bring the paper and sit down to read it, he jumps on my lap and reads it along with me.
Years ago, we lived in a one story apartment building that did not allow dogs. We had problems in the building with window peepers. One of my neighbors, whose wife was one of my colleagues, had a whole arsenal of weapons. I have never owned a gun. At any rate, one night we had a peeping tom. I grabbed the closest thing available in our apartment, an umbrella. I chased the peeping tom down the street with the umbrella. Other residents came out of their apartments including my colleague. However, her husband wasn’t with her. When I asked her where her husband was, she replied “He is hiding under the bed with his 12 gauge shotgun”. Now that we own our own place, I’ve turned the security over to the dogs
Agree and you dont even need an attack dog a good hound or mutt will usually suffice(your house is full of good defensive weapons identify and learn how to use them)-Kevin
So my Browning semi-automatic 16 ga. shotgun for ducks and my semi-automatic .22 rifle for squirrels are problems? They weren’t problems for ya all 40 years ago, why now? Interesting how people who have never been trained, never in military, never hunted or targeted and don’t know the difference between automatic and semi-automatic know all about what is ok and what is not. Automatics were banned in 1934 unless for military and stocks and pistol grips were by and large the definition used for the assault weapons ban that was not renewed by Congress.
Guns were readily available in the 50’s and 60’s and all you needed to carry was an NRA safety certificate. But I think we had institutions for nut cakes that we don’t have now. I told the story before but when I was about 15, three of us ordered Enfield 303 surplus British army rifles from the Wards catalog. Went down to pick them up ourselves on our bikes, stopped by the sporting goods store and bought a box of ammo, and no one ever got hurt or shot at.
I don’t think regulations are much of an answer except to make unkowing feel better, like prohibition and the war on drugs worked real well.
Well, I did a tour in I Corps and would feel a lot safer if “assault weapons” were outlawed except to federally licensed and regulated collectors.
The guns haven’t changed much, it’s the people that have changed. Yet we blame the tool, not the person.
I know the article is from 2005, but I find this both sad and funny at the same time; they call for a ban on kitchen knives
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4581871.stm
Is the consideration of banning butcher knives any more ridiculous than the NRA supporting the sale of .50 rifles to the public?
The problem with semiautomatic weapons is when it has a large clip that can be replaced quickly, like the assault weapon knock-offs. I had a 22 long rifle semiautomatic that loaded through a tube in the stock. It took a while to reload it. @Bing, I imagine your weapons take a while to reload, too. If your shotgun was a Street Sweeper, on the other hand, that would be overkill.
Most of the higher caliber rifles are priced out of most people’s price range. I know you could get a good used car for the price of this one:
http://www.cabelas.com/product/Shooting/Centerfire-Rifles/Bolt-Action|/pc/104792580/c/105522480/sc/105523380/SIG-Sauerreg-SIG50trade-Bolt-Action-Rifle/1391135.uts?destination=%2Fcatalog%2Fbrowse%2Fshooting-centerfire-rifles-bolt-action%2F_%2FN-1102332%2FNs-MAX_SALE_PRICE%7C1%3FWTz_l%3DSBC%3BMMcat104792580%3Bcat105522480%26WTz_srn%3DSeeAllItems%26WTz_st%3DGuidedNav%26WTz_stype%3DGNU&WTz_l=SBC%3BMMcat104792580%3Bcat105522480%3Bcat105523380 (you’ll need to copy/paste the whole thing to view the item)
Add to that that they’re selling a box of 20 cartridges for almost $40, it’s expensive to shoot as well.
Granted I don’t know anyone who would buy such a gun, or why they would need it, either