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Post by John B on Oct 25, 2022 19:41:13 GMT -5
Well crap, that's just nuts.
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Post by millring on Oct 25, 2022 20:00:01 GMT -5
Dar and IceSha are off training (scentwork). I've got the house to myself and I'm listening to the David Rose Orchestra.
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Post by david on Oct 25, 2022 20:02:38 GMT -5
John, I agree with John B, that is a crazy amount of hours for a postal worker. If you were the Postmaster General/Congress/Csar, what changes would you make to fix this? Higher postage rates and better pay?
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Post by howard lee on Oct 25, 2022 20:29:36 GMT -5
John, I agree with John B, that is a crazy amount of hours for a postal worker. If you were the Postmaster General/Congress/Csar, what changes would you make to fix this? Higher postage rates and better pay? Postage rates are going up in January.
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Post by millring on Oct 25, 2022 20:34:26 GMT -5
If you were the Postmaster General/Congress/Csar, what changes would you make to fix this? Higher postage rates and better pay? I've thought so much about this -- in particular because we seem unable to attract anyone to the job. I don't have any good answers. One problem is that $19 an hour isn't particularly competitive. Another is that it's physically and mentally demanding. When we were growing up I think we thought of mailman as a profession. It's not like we were deluded. We knew it wasn't something you went to college and got a degree in. But it seemed like an honorable profession -- Cliff Claven and Neeeeeeeewman notwithstanding. And it seemed like a career. Solidly middle class. It's really not like that anymore. I suspect most of you wouldn't want your sons or daughters to become mailmen. I'm guessing you would see that choice as either a failure or at least a mere step toward someday becoming something. Like you might view them becoming waiters or waitresses. The infrastructure is run down and when prospective workers see that, it turns them off. Mostly, though, I suspect that mail as a concept is just anachronistic. The next generation sees it that way. Since they see no reason for mail, they are unlikely to devote their lives to it.
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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 25, 2022 20:58:00 GMT -5
I suspect most of you wouldn't want your sons or daughters to become mailmen. I'm guessing you would see that choice as either a failure or at least a mere step toward someday becoming something. Like you might view them becoming waiters or waitresses. I tend to disagree with that part or your post. Mail carrier and waiter/waitress are both honorable professions, and I would have no qualms if that's what my daughters had grown up to do.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Oct 25, 2022 21:05:22 GMT -5
Well, me fixing the Toyota hasn’t worked out so well. Just before I tore into it i voltage tested the battery and saw a significant drop since yesterday. Hmmm. Maybe the battery is bad and it’s not the starter. So off I go to get the battery tested at Battery Exchange, where I bought it a year ago. I’m thinking that if they replace it under warranty, then I’m home free and it’s easy peasy. But no. They say the battery is fine, just needs a little charge. So they charge it for free and I take it home. This all takes over three hours, and I’m burning daylight.so I get home and start to take the air cleaner box apart to remove it so I can get to the starter. Only there’s some electrical connections that need to come apart, and one of them won’t budge. Fark! Spent over an hour trying to get that stupid connector apart and there is no joy in Mudville. So I’m stuck until I get this resolved. I may have to call a real mechanic. Fark! The wife is unimpressed too.
Mike
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Post by Marty on Oct 25, 2022 21:24:29 GMT -5
Sorry I listed it as a " D'Armond Hershey Bar pickup"
It just happens to be a acoustic model.
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Post by Dub on Oct 25, 2022 21:30:00 GMT -5
I suspect most of you wouldn't want your sons or daughters to become mailmen. I'm guessing you would see that choice as either a failure or at least a mere step toward someday becoming something. Like you might view them becoming waiters or waitresses. I tend to disagree with that part or your post. Mail carrier and waiter/waitress are both honorable professions, and I would have no qualms if that's what my daughters had grown up to do. My maternal grandfather was a rural carrier, my kid brother was a postal clerk and one of his daughters was a rural carrier for a time. I’d be very proud of my grandchildren or great-grandchildren who became letter carriers. We’re on a first name basis with our carriers and, we’re it not for the pandemic, would have played music at one of their BD parties. We hold mailmen and fe-mailmen in high regard, even if they play guitar and make world-class stoneware.
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Post by Dub on Oct 25, 2022 21:31:52 GMT -5
Sorry I listed it as a " D'Armond Hershey Bar pickup" It just happens to be a acoustic model. No, you correctly listed it as DeArmond, not D’Armond.
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Post by Marty on Oct 25, 2022 21:32:23 GMT -5
Well, me fixing the Toyota hasn’t worked out so well. Just before I tore into it i voltage tested the battery and saw a significant drop since yesterday. Hmmm. Maybe the battery is bad and it’s not the starter. So off I go to get the battery tested at Battery Exchange, where I bought it a year ago. I’m thinking that if they replace it under warranty, then I’m home free and it’s easy peasy. But no. They say the battery is fine, just needs a little charge. So they charge it for free and I take it home. This all takes over three hours, and I’m burning daylight.so I get home and start to take the air cleaner box apart to remove it so I can get to the starter. Only there’s some electrical connections that need to come apart, and one of them won’t budge. Fark! Spent over an hour trying to get that stupid connector apart and there is no joy in Mudville. So I’m stuck until I get this resolved. I may have to call a real mechanic. Fark! The wife is unimpressed too. Mike Murphy's Law "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." Murphy was a Genius. Genius "The ability to capitalize upon the obvious" M. Reynolds
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Post by Marty on Oct 25, 2022 21:34:22 GMT -5
Sorry I listed it as a " D'Armond Hershey Bar pickup" It just happens to be a acoustic model. No, you correctly listed it as DeArmond, not D’Armond. Sheer luck, I misspell it all the time.
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Post by Russell Letson on Oct 25, 2022 22:38:22 GMT -5
Bruce, while a current passport will get you through TSA, passports do expire--and then the Real ID driver's license would still work. And while DLs also expire, I don't think the Real ID status attached to them does. Or at least, not until we have another spasm of security anxiety.
Our last passports have expired and we missed the grace period during which they would have sufficed to get Real ID licences--and now we'll have to go through the whole rigamarole, which in C's case is a real pain in the ass, since she's a naturalized citizen and we'll have to remember where we squirreled away her original naturalization certficate. (Probably the same place my birth certificate is safely hidden.) One would think that a string of passports going back to the 1960s would suffice. . . .
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Post by brucemacneill on Oct 26, 2022 4:47:04 GMT -5
Bruce, while a current passport will get you through TSA, passports do expire--and then the Real ID driver's license would still work. And while DLs also expire, I don't think the Real ID status attached to them does. Or at least, not until we have another spasm of security anxiety. Our last passports have expired and we missed the grace period during which they would have sufficed to get Real ID licences--and now we'll have to go through the whole rigamarole, which in C's case is a real pain in the ass, since she's a naturalized citizen and we'll have to remember where we squirreled away her original naturalization certficate. (Probably the same place my birth certificate is safely hidden.) One would think that a string of passports going back to the 1960s would suffice. . . . I renewed our passports a couple of years ago at the time planning to take a cruise in 2020 for our 50th anniversary. Fortunately we didn't do that and didn't get stuck on a Covid infected cruise ship. The passports worked as one identification but you need 3 things to get a Real-ID. Our voter registrations worked for a second identifier but we had a problem finding a third one but eventually a supervisor accepted the deed for the house. The signatures were hard to read but she accepted it rather than sending us home to dig up something else with both our signatures on it.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Oct 26, 2022 11:13:48 GMT -5
I believe Russell is right that when you renew your driver's license the RealID status carries forward automatically. Like the Velveteen Rabbit, you remain real because your BMV/DMV loves you.
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