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America's Laziest Postman, Or What "Essential" Government Money Is Spent On

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After seeing this, it may be no wonder the rest of the non-mail-providing-public in the US goes "postal."...

 

 

Via Mediaite,

When this United States Postal Worker delivered a package to a home in LaGrange, Georgia recently, chances are she didn’t know she was being taped. If she had, she certainly would not have driven all the way across the front lawn to the door to deliver the small package.

 

According to resident Mark Anderson, who had installed a security camera to check on his disabled mother, the package in question weighed just two pounds, three ounces. “There was no meteorological” reason, he said, that she needed to get that close to his front door to deliver it.

 

Now that the video has more than half a million views on YouTube, Anderson is worried she might lose her job. “I don’t want someone to lose their job with the way things are these days, but she shouldn’t have done that,” he said.

 

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Mon, 10/07/2013 - 08:45 | 4029828 RKDS
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Because the mail sorts itself, right?  It just pours out of a chute into the right postman's bin and in the same order as his route.  Man, why don't they just save the trouble of driving and dump it all into a computer-controlled mortar launcher?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:07 | 4028311 Bárðarbunga
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Our postal person is almost as lazy. She'll lean on the Jeep horn until you come outside and receive the mail from her truck window. She usually says 'Wait a minute" because she's so fucking fat she can't turn to the left, reach into the tote and figure out what mail is ours. On days I'm not home she'll jam shit in the mailbox so tight you need a goddamn jackhammer to open it up. Never saw her drive across the lawn yet.

 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:20 | 4028350 arnoldsimage
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that's funny! we have the standard set of boxes for apartments. one day mine was filled with a package so jammed in there i had to cut it open to get the contents out. nice.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:16 | 4028466 akak
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That ain't shit.  Last year I received a rather heavy (~25 lbs) USPS large flat-rate box which was literally disintegrating after having been SOAKED WITH URINE! (which, just to be clear, was not part of the original or intended contents). The postal workers conveniently placed it into a heavy-duty clear plastic bag with the rather understated label of "damaged in transit".

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 21:44 | 4029091 arnoldsimage
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how did they ship it? in a barnum and bailey rail car?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 22:56 | 4029295 Harry Dong
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Oh Jesus, you didn't happen to buy a set of time life nature books on eBay from me did  you?  Those were missing in transit for quite a while. (And so were the l.Ron Hubbard biographical encyclopedias...but those weighed damn near 80 pounds).

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 03:31 | 4029606 akak
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That would be negative on both counts --- although had I received the L. Ron Hubbard biographical encyclopedias, I might have soaked them with urine myself.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:09 | 4028312 TeamDepends
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"There was no meteorilogical reason...."  How do you know she didn't see ISON barrelling towards her?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:06 | 4028314 Racer
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You can see why she is as fat as she is if that tiny distance was too much!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:23 | 4028363 TeamDepends
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W=FxD

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:26 | 4028543 AGAU
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To every action there is an equal but opposite reaction, see her getting back on the truck?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:57 | 4028580 Pure Evil
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I was amazed she didn't require a wheelchair lift to get back into the truck.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:06 | 4028315 Stupid Donkey
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You don't get to be that fat by wasting calories on the job.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:23 | 4028352 SilverIsKing
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She didn't get that fat all by herself. She had help with that.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:40 | 4028585 Pure Evil
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I'm wondering if this is one of those times where Barry might actually say, You did build that spare tire!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:24 | 4028880 NoTTD
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Government cheese.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:13 | 4028317 Kreditanstalt
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"Lose her job"?

That's not a "job"...real jobs pay their own way by making a PROFIT.  THIS is a MISALLOCATION OF CAPITAL. 

Quite usual in government.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:37 | 4028403 hangemhigh77
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Taxpayer financed corporate bill delivery system anyone you actually KNOW writing you letters?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:41 | 4028587 Pure Evil
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The IRS.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:43 | 4028427 Parrotile
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The only way ANY "Business" makes a profit is by charging those who avail themselves of the Businesses' services / products more than the total cost (to the Business) of providing those services / products.

So, are you prepard to pay more (maybe considerably more) for the same standard of service (or less, once the "Profit Motive" sets in)?

Or are you happier to employ a "private" service in the almost certain knowledge that it'll either be one of the "Big Boys" cutting up the "Market" to maximise their profit margin (at your expense), or if you are lucky it might be a local provider (who will be gobbled up by one of the "Big Boys" once they are seen as a threat to the "Profit Margin" status quo).

 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:14 | 4028503 Sean7k
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Yes, please. 

Most of the time, I get mail from a private carrier already. I can do without all the other junk. Plus, the cost will be known, not subject to future tax increases to pay for costs that were unforeseen. If I don't like the price, I'll find another delivery solution. 

You seem to like the idea of me subsidizing you. Keep your criminal ways to yourself.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 08:52 | 4029838 RKDS
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Talk about short term thinking.  Costs known because of no surprise tax increases?  What, you've never had a private service spring a rate hike on you?  At least we know why the post offrice is raising prices.  A private company would just hide it in their cooked books and sue anybody who discovered it despite their entitlement-soaked duplicity.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:51 | 4028439 FreeMktFisherMN
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thank you, to kreditanstalt, for differentiating between making work and actually creating value (such that people voluntarily will pay for something and will pay such a price that it leaves over profit for the producer as the output is worth more than the combined inputs).

The only real monopolies are .govt ordained. In a true free market the only way a company has such domination is if they simply deliver the things people want at the best price. That's called economies of scale. Antitrust legislation is a disaster. 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:29 | 4028707 Kreditanstalt
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Agreed!  But try telling the sheeple that the only monopolies that survive are due to government favouritism: you'll hear all about "evil corporations" and "benevolent government"...  

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:07 | 4028319 HoofHearted
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If she walked the 20 steps more frequently, maybe she wouldn't have to shop in the plus sizes...

Our Femailman comes around to the back of our house and honks about five times. She never gets out of the car if someone is here that will come to ge tthe package. She has us trained well, and the kids always get so excited about picking some mail. My 9 year old has often signed for something requiring "adult signature." We get a whole lot of deliveries from FedEx or UPS now...

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:08 | 4028321 Payne
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The post office doing its best to excellerate Global warming and make Al Gore right for once.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:10 | 4028323 One And Only
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They still got nothing on the bitches from the DMV. I'd rather live in hell than go back to the DMV.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:10 | 4028325 scraping_by
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Ah, for a video of the average corporate management meeting...

Two hours of a director and an assistant director comparing vacations while fifteen other managers sit around a table to watch and listen.

A participant comes away with their will to live impaired. Wonder what the video would do?

 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:23 | 4028355 Zer0head
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you mean like dudes passing the day reading and commenting on ZH while at work

if she had chucked the package in the bushes or deliberately handed it to the dog that would be something but she delivered the mail - give her credit

and as for driving up to the door - that's rural America - it's what they do

 

the fact that she is full figured seems to be the issue here - America is overweight  she's and American

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:37 | 4028402 Mike in GA
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Never, never in any neighborhood I've ever lived in is it considered ok to drive a vehicle across anyone's front yard.  The fat lady can't hoof it so she drove across the yard is the height of "I don't care about you or your domicile, I'm too fat to walk so fuck you".

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:02 | 4028470 Uncle Remus
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No, the issue is she couldn't be bothered to stop the truck, get out, walk maybe 60-70 yards round trip and set the parcel on the porch, close to the door, out of any potential rain and the sight of opportunists.

And you defend this by saying it could be worse?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:13 | 4028502 Zer0head
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what effing planet do you live on Uncle?

post office leave a package at your front door in a rural dogpatch?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:35 | 4028568 Uncle Remus
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I can't speak to packages as I have all of those sent to a private box because I don't want them left at my front door - regardless of the delivery entity. My local post office does get out of the truck and attempt to get a signature and deliver registered mail.

In my neighborhood, all the mailboxes are on the same side of the street so the postman doesn't backtrack on the opposite side of the street. The postman has to cross the street to get to my front door.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:39 | 4028573 wisehiney
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If this was the home of an oBUMMER weasel voter, you would never see it. Their attorney would be negotiating a huge settlement for the taxpayer to pay. Thanks, Mr Anderson for not doing so. But I would set a trap for next time.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:05 | 4028806 Ness.
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For starters, it Sunday dickhead, and most fat lazy Amurikan's are getting drunk, neglecting their kids and watching football (that's what we do).  As for the fatass driving 'my' truck on this guys lawn? seems like trespassing to me.  In MY rural America if someone drives their truck on my front lawn, well... they'll only do it once.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:09 | 4028829 WillyGroper
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"you mean like dudes passing the day reading and commenting on ZH while at work"

That's different. /s

They rarely drive to my rural door but they have. I'd get a bit annoyed with a horn honking though. 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:12 | 4028330 stock trout
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At least vehicle identification numbers on the side of the truck were blurred out to protect the innocent. Interesting about those yellow lining markers on the lawn, probably there to cover up the rehearsal lines in the grass. Next up on ZH, a small aerobatic airplane loses a wing in a maneuver and lands successfully. 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:45 | 4028423 Mike in GA
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Umm, that's a hose.  See the little oscillating sprinkler thingy the femmailman drove over just off the pavement?  They usually indicate care and feeding of a lawn so it has a decent appearance  - just the sort of thing one would not dare drive a delivery vehicle on without explicit permission from the property owner.  If you cared, that is.  If you don't care - and that seems to be the case with so many today - just do whatthefuckever and just dodge the bullets when they begin to fly.  And the bullets are comin.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:13 | 4028498 Agent P
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I don't know about actual bullets for a lawn offense, but if I were the homeowner in this case, I'd be hiding in the bushes on the far side of the yard with a pellet gun and taking the butt shot as she climbed back into the cattle wagon...I'd start at three pumps and work my way higher each day until tubby got the message. 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:14 | 4028846 NoTTD
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Stock Trout has no hose.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:15 | 4028335 CunnyFunt
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We have an old-school country P.O. where everyone knows all the workers. That way, they are held accountable. I even make an extra effort to clear the snow around the mail box and have set up a cabinet near the end of the driveway for packages. Twice we've had delivery vehicles stuck in the driveway during the winter.

However, sorting facilities and urban services are a completely different story.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:17 | 4028341 shutdown
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A government agency in a normal and healthy society would immediately fire that fat disgusting pig.

But our society in general is even fatter and more disgusting than she is.

In fact, she's fairly typical. So she's safe. 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:24 | 4028360 robnume
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Fat, fucking cu%t!! There are PLENTY of folks in Georgia who would love to have this bitch's job. I hope this lazy fuck DOES lose her job. There is NO EXCUSE for this type of behavior. I hope to hell that her supervisor saw this video. No wonder the USSA is going to hell in a hand basket!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:27 | 4028371 Zer0head
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her lawyers are going to have a field day

she'll be living in that house one day - and as for slandering someone online

hopefully you're using a VPN 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:36 | 4028400 One of We
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Get off my lawn!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:44 | 4028432 akak
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Feeling contrary just for contrarianism's sake, Zero, or just especially dipshittish today?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:01 | 4028474 XitSam
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Have you finally let go of the hostility towards AnAnonymouse and found a new target for your righteous indignation?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:07 | 4028488 akak
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Oh no, I am fully capable of maintaining multiple simultaneous strands of hostility towards the dishonest and idiotic.

Although "contempt" is probably the more appropriate word here.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:02 | 4028802 Pure Evil
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To ZeroHead, the award for "Contrarian Dickhead" has now been bestowed upon thee.

You sir have usurped my title.

Where's Otto when you need him.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:14 | 4028840 WillyGroper
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Prolly burying/hiding his parents bodies.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:32 | 4028549 nmewn
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She's going to get a lawyer, to sue the homeowner or an on-line commenter...after she was caught on tape, doing some sort of weird Urban Offroad Training, in a government vehicle, paid for by the homeowner...and vandalizing the homeowners private property?

Mmmkay...all I can say is good luck finding a lawyer to take that one pro bono...lol.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:48 | 4028606 Oldwood
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You are right. In the world as we know it today, the only thing worth suing over is someone telling the truth about someone else. Just try pointing out Obama's mistakes.

Slander my ass!

The King has no clothes! Sue me.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:33 | 4028393 remain calm
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She must of gotten confused and she thought she was driving up to Krispy Cream.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:27 | 4028376 I am Jobe
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crumb away from being a way from 500 pounds. How the fuck does she find her pussy ? Is Obamacare going to start a new idustry to wipe her azz ? Need more MCD meals 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:05 | 4028812 Pure Evil
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As you can imagine, she probably hasn't wiped her ass in.....oh......about the last ten years.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:30 | 4028377 A Lunatic
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As goes the Postal Service, so goes Obamacare. You've just seen the future.......

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:30 | 4028378 surf0766
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that is a sign of disrespect for other people personal property.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:37 | 4028572 Uncle Remus
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Welcome to socialism.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:05 | 4028817 Pure Evil
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Welcome to American Fat Assed Socialism.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:30 | 4028380 hangemhigh77
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You should probably thank her or somehow she'll have you arrested

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:30 | 4028381 Seasmoke
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She must have just back from a Disney vacation......THEY ALL LOOK LIKE THAT ON SCOOTERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:31 | 4028384 TheGermanGuy
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When I lived in the US, every time I saw one of those square vans pulling up to deliver mail I was expecting a week ago, I wished I had an RPG

 

Note to Anderson: Get some landmines (though I´ld trust her to set up the anti tank type...)

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:33 | 4028389 One of We
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Now if she had frisbeed the package up there in the middle of a full lock drift accross the lawn I'd have to give the bitch a break.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:12 | 4028655 insanelysane
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Frisbee-ing the package would require effort.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:35 | 4028395 Agent P
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Newman! 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:42 | 4028426 akak
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Oh the humanitee!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:24 | 4028694 edifice
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Oh, the huge-manatee.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 06:36 | 4029699 Ace Ventura
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OK see that's not fair......now I have to clean up all this good Gevalia coffee I just sprayed all over my screen.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:57 | 4028464 grid-b-gone
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She probably hauls muffin stumps to the country on her off-hours.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:36 | 4028405 Tom G
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She isn't the exception.

There are millions of Americans that are becoming a different species because of how unhealthy they live.

And as we make our health care system more socialistic / fascistic, it will be the healthy who will be forced (under the threat of violence and incarceration) to subsidize unhealthy people's disgusting habits.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:21 | 4028864 WillyGroper
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They won't live long. I know 2 that the doctors are more than happy to pump with ssri's than address nutrition. Maybe b/c drs. weren't skooled in it or maybe they're depressed b/c of their weight. 

Sad thing is they weren't always that way. Zombies now I tell ya. 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:44 | 4028424 Dollar Bill Hiccup
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Yikes.

Maybe they should give workers those motorized chairs as well.

They could disembark from the mother truck and never get the soles of their shoes dirty.

Would save on wear and tear on the lawns too!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:46 | 4028436 Mike in GA
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Maybe even a Segway!  Although for her it would have to be a Sagway industrial model.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:38 | 4028576 Uncle Remus
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A dually no less.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:31 | 4028723 Real Estate Geek
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+1 just for the "Sagway!"

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:44 | 4028430 deerhunter
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Tom G,  not will be forced to subsidize,  we already do and most do not work.  Too fat already.  Our local amublances had to purchase heavier duty stretchers and staff an extr para medic or some such nonsense because the people they are handling weigh so much more than they used to.  Guess who funds the paramedics/fire departments.  My buddy works for a suburb as an electrical lineman and he told me the hook and ladder big fire trucks cost more than a million dollars each.  He knew this because the municipal workers were considering a strike for higher pay and the police and fire are the overpaid municipal employees in their opinion.  I second that.  

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:34 | 4028910 Whats that smell
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Talk about obese. Ambulance drivers have got to bo the fattest trade I've seen.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:46 | 4028437 Dollar Bill Hiccup
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YOU did not become lazy and overweight.

.GOV was there force feeding you.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:58 | 4028459 Pig Circus
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Where is her fucking uniform? Gots to wear one around these here parts. Looks like she was filling in for her twice as obese hubby while he was taking his daily nap.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:03 | 4028476 Parrotile
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Don't knock Siestas - having a mid-day post-lunch nap improves productivity and awareness (= safety). http://www.siestaawareness.org/ 

The link between having a "Power Nap" and NIDDM is still rather tentative.

 

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 09:00 | 4029866 RKDS
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Maybe she's one of those "private" contractors that always make the government oh-so-efficient.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 17:58 | 4028460 Parrotile
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Almost ALL Australian Post is delivered by motorbike (Honda 100's) so if you've got a post box in the middle of the lawn, you'll expect to have a motorbike driving over that lawn every time you have a delivery.

Note that AusPost only delivers SMALL packages - anything substantial has to be collected (by you, at your expense, during "their" opening hours which are pretty restricted) from the local Mail Centre, and that's the case even if you reside in a "Metropolitan Area"!

 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:02 | 4028473 Ignatius
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People are making a lot of judgements of the Post Office here based on a single, fucking youtube video.

No wonder TPTB figured they could get away with Chem Weapons scam in Syria.  Just post a few videos of dead (apparently) Syrians (apparently) and say Assad did it.

I'm not defending the 'apparent' indefensible, but I will defend collective bargaining properly applied.  WalShitMart uses its power in the market place to get all kinds of concessions, but when labor applies the same principle they're villified.  If the Post Office needs reform, then reform it.  This shit is playing into corporate, bankster agenda by demonizing labor.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:08 | 4028491 A Lunatic
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Except there was hardly any labor whatsoever to demonize in this case. I guess she did shuffle a few steps and bend her arm a little there at the end........

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:14 | 4028505 Ignatius
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Of course she looks ridiculous.  We're very short on facts ahead of so many judgemental comments.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:59 | 4028628 Oldwood
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For sure, do not believe your eyes. The proper postal methodolgy would be to simply throw the packages on the ground at the street.

Personally, I think they should eliminate all house deliveries of mail. I don't use my streetside mailbox as I don't like the idea of just anyone having access. I use a PO and pick my mail up. And they still screw it up! The less we allow dependencies on govenment employees that have virtually no accountability, the better off we all will be. They constantly take on more and more responsibilities and continue to fail, which only gives cause to do even more. We have to just stop expecting and requesting anything from them. Take the keys away!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:17 | 4028848 Pure Evil
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Lighten up Francis Ignatius.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 09:02 | 4029878 RKDS
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Aw, you got caught and now everybody else should lighten up.  Socialist.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 01:05 | 4029503 One of We
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Why do I have to pay for a PO box where I come to pick up the mail but get "free" delivery at my home?  This some Keynesian boken window shit since I have to go pick up almost everything that isn't junk mail at the post office anyway?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 01:09 | 4029508 Oldwood
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I would happily give up my "free" home delivery mail service that is paid for with every stamp, for a free PO.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:42 | 4028584 Uncle Remus
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You musta tore shit up on the debate team...

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:23 | 4028881 WillyGroper
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Agreed. Easy target. Divide & conquer.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:02 | 4028475 orez65
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I find it pathetic to watch mail persons delivering mail.
The USPS uses one quarter million vehicles to deliver that mail, which spew millions of tons of pollutants and CO2.
ALL MAIL can be delivered through the Internet.
Private companies, like UPS, can deliver packages.
The USPS does not need to exist!!!!!!!!!!!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:11 | 4028500 monad
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The SPAM must flow. Whole forests disappear every day to be mulched into marketing materials, because hemp is verbotten. Al Gore is so full of shit... 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:41 | 4028738 TheFourthStooge-ing
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.

Private companies, like UPS, can deliver packages.
The USPS does not need to exist!!!!!!!!!!!

Private companies like UPS and FedEx rely upon the USPS in remote areas for what they call last mile delivery. Without the USPS, large geographical swaths of the US would not be serviced by UPS or FedEx.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:31 | 4028859 Trampy
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Private companies like UPS and FedEx rely upon the USPS in remote areas for what they call last mile delivery. Without the USPS, large geographical swaths of the US would not be serviced by UPS or FedEx.

Yes, this has been going on for a few years (less than 10 certainly).  UPS first started doing it on a small scale for Saturday home delivery but it's expanded greatly since then, ostensibly because of revenue-seeking by USPS under pressure from Congress.

Before that, FedEx was carrying USPS mail on their nightly cargo planes instead of having it "hitch rides" on regular commercial passenger airplanes where it could often be seen being loaded in bags along with suitcases and other checked baggage.  With delivery prices based only on package weight, imagine how much money they were losing when they paid a courier to drive many hours and maybe take multiple ferries just to deliver a handful of packages for all that driving.  Next Day Guaranteed was something they didn't overlook just to save money.

Just ten years ago, both UPS and FedEx did their own deliveries to remote areas of CONUS (don't know about AK) with the usual truck or sometimes a like-painted car that would sometimes have to take a ferry to get to islands.

Until the recent expansion of the UPS/USPS partnership that's now commonplace in cities, USPS was practically "marrried" to FedEx in using their cargo planes to carry the mail.

The  federal government has a long-standing special relationship with FedEx not just in their in low "government rate" as preferred overnight carrier but also in being allowed to carry material up to the Top Secret classification delivered by ordinary FedEx truck if sent Priority Overnight; that same package sent by USPS would have to be sent Registered Mail, which only recently provides a package tracking system, but hardly ever delivers the next day even when origin and destination are in the same city.  FedEx can also carry radioactive materials for both government and private by putting up the Class 7 placard.

UPS and USPS will not accept radioactives, while FedEx gladly accepts them from commercial customers.  OTOH, firearms need to be sent UPS Ground, which is also required for many non-radioactive hazardous materials which are not accepted by USPS or FedEx if they cannot be sent by air per DOT regs. 

It's rhetorical fallacy to deduce that what is present was in the past, or that it must remain so in the future.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:19 | 4028863 Pure Evil
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See post from the land of OZ.

AusPost

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 01:04 | 4029501 monad
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UPS & FedX deliver worldwide, so the USPS uses them. UPS has better domestic coverage than FedX so FedX sometimes uses UPS for 'rural' delivery. UPS automation was probably the model for the current State postal monopoly. USPS is a racket.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:27 | 4028891 WillyGroper
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A 2 oz padded envelope $1.80 USPS

$17.90 UPS

Same state delivery.

Which would you choose?

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 04:19 | 4029634 grekko
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Unfortunately, you'd need a Constitutional Convention to do it.  That is a can of worms if I ever saw one.  Maybe a Pandora's Box would be a better anomaly.  We'd end up with a Constitution written by K-Street.  Not only would we have to buy over-priced medical insurance, we also have to invest half of our retirement funds in US Treasury bonds, and the other half in JPM stock (just for our own protection, you know).  There'd probably be a clause where we had to put video cams in our bedrooms to protect our wives from possible spousal abuse as well, so the SEC could get live feeds.  Really, the possibilities are endless.  Never let a good crisis go to waste!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:06 | 4028484 buzzsaw99
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Man the harpoons, land whale off the port bow.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:08 | 4028486 22winmag
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Changing Eagle logo to Turkey logo in 3... 2... 1.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:26 | 4028540 wisehiney
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Damn sure ain't edible. Make that logo a buzzard.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:24 | 4028495 jim249
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I am a mailman and am disgusted with this video as 99% of the rest of the carriers are . She is not in uniform so is most likely a temp worker who I am sure will lose her job. You get what you pay for. These temps don't make much money and get no benefits. The PO was warned that this kind of stuff might happen before they tried to cut corners.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:10 | 4028833 NoTTD
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Yeah, that must be it.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:30 | 4028898 WillyGroper
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I use the post often. My station is fast & courteous. 

FWIW, I was expecting a signature package from FedEx yesterday. Couldn't get tracking in the molecules, so I called. Hispanic lady answered & wrote down the wrong tracking number. Then tried to pawn me off on another number to call. I asked her to read the tracking number back. She did & I reread it to her. She hung up on me.

Get ready it's coming. BTW, I have 2 regular temps on my route. Both are good. 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:19 | 4028522 booboo
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I kinda feel sorry for her, she has been enabled by a kind of social suicidal conditoning America has been intent on force feeding itself. Shame has a place in a civil society, Wife Beater, Hussy, Tramp, Doper, Home Wrecker, and FAT were terms that were commonly used to stigmatize a person to motivate them to move away, change or stop their behavior. Now we celebrate it.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:28 | 4028544 akak
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How dare you suggest that we discriminate against the differently moraled!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:29 | 4028545 RaceToTheBottom
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In my delinquent youth, we would call those "lawn jobs".  Living in mountain country, the best way to do it was with studded snow tires, spinning through the snow spreading green grass over the layer of white snow…

 

Perhaps I could make some money training postal workers on the finer nuances?

 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:46 | 4028593 world_debt_slave
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When I was working as a cashier, part time, in a grocery store, had a postal worker come regularly, unkempt, unshaven, disheveled and always buying cigs. I asked him one day what it was like working at the post office and he told me it was a terrible place to work.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:13 | 4028661 insanelysane
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Of course it is a terrible place to work, it is full of postal employees.  Each trying to out lazy the others.  The person in this video is winning.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:32 | 4028905 WillyGroper
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It's the shits.

John Prine was a postal worker before he quit.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:53 | 4028612 Teddy Tenpole
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No harm no foul.  next...

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 18:53 | 4028618 are we there yet
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She could run for congress with her worth ethic.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:54 | 4028780 Mototard at Large
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Was that 'work' or 'worth'.

 

Both are good.  :-)

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:31 | 4028713 Caput Lupinum
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She looks like a few donuts short of diabetes taking her foot so I wouldn't worry to much

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:38 | 4028730 Flounder
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Well their creed used to be this;

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds

but now its this;

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor excessive body fat stays these couriers from the waddling completion of their appointed rounds

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:50 | 4028777 BidnessMan
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She didn't buckle her seat belt before driving off.... very unsafe.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:33 | 4028912 WillyGroper
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Maybe USPS couldn't afford a belt extension because they're broke. /s

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:55 | 4028783 rsnoble
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Lets find out who this gal is and what route she's on and send everyone in the neighboorhood a box of rocks every week. LOL.  I'll sponsor 3 residents myself.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:05 | 4028816 akak
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That would be automatic 'terrorism' under new federal guidelines!

And somehow probably racist too!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:27 | 4028894 Pure Evil
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When you mentioned a "box of rocks" you weren't make a snide remark about her IQ were you?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 19:59 | 4028797 mcgoverntm
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While we are dumping on the USPS worker, let's add that she did not fasten her seatbelt before backing off of the lawn.

Do you think the USPS will make any statement about this incident?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:43 | 4028932 Seychelles
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They don't make SB extenders big enough.  Also, did anyone notice that FB threw her candy wrapper on the lady's yard before getting out of the postal van?  Fortunately, I have had excellent service in my little Texas town.  But UPS and FedEx have driven on my lawn like this.  Disgusting.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:05 | 4028813 pupdog1
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I gots to say, I've had some really good US mailmen over the years. I mean, out-of-their-way really good.

I hope this lawn-driving water buffalo is an anomoly.

That said, I was thrilled to see Gov. Scott Walker tell the park-closing Feds in Wisconsin to go piss up a rope. I think we are on the verge of some serious pushback on the 535 + 2 gangsters who forgot who they work for and try to ruin the lives of 325 million because they are bought-off whores. Obama has wiped his ass with the C@nstitution one too many times.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:08 | 4028821 NoTTD
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Pretty good technique, but she should have thrown it from her seat in the truck.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:26 | 4028830 tony wilson
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usa,usa,usa.

you laughed you sang when the lies where told on the capture and death of a cia beard called bin laden.

america this fat postie

this is you.

this image reflected is your soul.

this is your country

your freedom

your american canola your gmo corn syrup.

your exceptionalism.

this is why you fight your fake wars.

drop 100s of tons of depleted uranium

for this fat cunt in a toytown electric van.

no wonder rothschild prince phillip,david attenborough,chatham house want you fuckers cancer dosed up

spendin your last dollars on chemo.

just sayin.

 

 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:36 | 4028917 WillyGroper
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Sad but true.

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 01:48 | 4029549 are we there yet
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Mexico officially is fatter than the US now.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:13 | 4028836 NoTTD
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(Doorbell rings.)

Bart: "It's the femailman."

Lisa: "That's 'female carrier', Bart."

 

I thought that was a joke until now.

 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:18 | 4028851 Whats that smell
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I wished the lard-ass I work with moved that fast, But remember for every one of these someone else has to do extra. Ain't working with the disabled great?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:23 | 4028871 Wilcox1
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Heh, I hope that wasn't your new computer in there

 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:37 | 4028911 q99x2
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What the hell was that? I looked at it with the same eyes that I use in AA meetings. There I see everyone as human nervous systems with brains attached. They drift through the air or are at rest above chairs. In this case I was able to detect just a strand of light flashing out now and then from what appeared to be a mass of pink and black. It was that telltale signature of a FAT BITCH.

Fat bitches. Whenever I see them I move out of the way..

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:43 | 4028936 akak
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It's like I always say after having worked with the public for over ten years now .... two-thirds of Americans are in a permanent semi-comatose state.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:43 | 4028930 yrbmegr
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Wikipedia makes the following claim regarding the United States Postal Service:

"The USPS has not directly received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s with the minor exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters."

This statement is unsupported by any citation.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 20:52 | 4028954 marcusfenix
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now, I know being super fat is not an easy gig and nobody is going to expect this women to take part in the iron man triathlon or anything.

but plowing across the lawn to the front porch?

it's not even a driveway, it's the yard wtf?

what the hell is she going to do when the snow hits, demand that he plow the grass?

wow... 

 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 21:09 | 4028999 W74
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Even the driveway would've been unaceptable. I do not want postal workers driving a truck on anyone's property.  They can walk to deliver a package to the door, but that's about it.

I know a lot of older neighborhoods near me have the post boxes on the house and that's grandfathered in.  Most postal workers will just walk through the lawns, and even that's ok.  There are times in life where you just have to do away with the modern "conveniences" destroying us and do things the "hard" way.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 21:08 | 4029002 Parrotile
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Extra mass = extra momentum.

Unfortunately extra mass can also = easier to become bogged-down, so maybe a "no-win" combination??

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 21:01 | 4028971 quasimodo
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Certainly begs the question, does this double as her mobility device at Wallyworld? I would venture to guess yes, since it is about the correct height for that fat ass serving of cotton candy to slide out of the mail "truck"

I'll bet she does some real damage in aisle three where the sugary sweets and goodies reside.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 21:04 | 4028985 W74
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Saw this earlier.  I'll bet she's one of the people who drive 'round and 'round the parking lot looking for a spot as close as possible.  Sad.

Maybe if she actually walked her postal route a little bit (most of them I see take a whole street and cut across the grass) she's actually lose some weight. 

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 21:06 | 4028992 T-NUTZ
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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds, BITCHEZ!!!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 21:08 | 4028995 Jethro
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The Postman always rings......ah never mind, that's too much effort.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 21:07 | 4028998 squexx
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More proof how useless and unneccessary most Snivel Service employees are. Especially the ones loaded with Affirmative Action SOB's. The Post Office, the VA and the TSA are loaded to the gills with lazy, worthless blacks that couldn't find a job anywhere else.

Affirmative Action is nothing but government jobs that are the equivalent of welfare gimme jobs! Fire them all and let them starve!

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 21:11 | 4029005 Atomizer
Sun, 10/06/2013 - 21:57 | 4029127 10mm
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Did she make grunt noises getting out of vehicle? Somebodys fuckin that,just sayin.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 21:57 | 4029129 Bobportlandor
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Since when is PINK acceptable?

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 22:15 | 4029201 erkme73
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Mine will mow down anything in the way.  I caught her dragging my trashcan down the street:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xsDhqlGRU8

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 22:25 | 4029231 Papasmurf
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This video could go postal.

Sun, 10/06/2013 - 22:31 | 4029242 BKbroiler
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Sorry, Brooklyn takes the crown for worst post offices

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdrqLrdYAr0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdrqLrdYAr0

Mon, 10/07/2013 - 00:14 | 4029424 Otrader
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ha!! This was a funny vid.

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