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Wirt Atmar wrote:

> To date, we've sent out approx. 180 calendars (many of you have already said
> that you've received yours) -- but we've been dead in the water now for two
> weeks. The triangular mailing tubes that the US Post Office supplies us are
> apparently scarcer than hen's teeth. Local post offices are no longer allowed
> to stock the tubes locally, so we have to order all of the tubes from some
> remote, unknown central stocking location.
>
> We've found that when you ask for 1000 tubes, the civil servants associated
> with the Post Office no longer remain civil. Rather than seeing this request
> as a source of immediate business, they give you lectures on how defrauding
> the US Government is a federal felony offense. (The US Post Office still has
> a ways to go before it truly begins to psychologically compete with FedEX or
> UPS.)
>

It's amazing how much the US Post Office likes to dance over the line
between being a government entity and being a private company.  I wish I
owned such a company.  (Not Really!!!)
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