The United States Postal Service has an unofficial motto:
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds”
The USPS is the latest iteration of a system that predates Westphalian nation-states, The Library of Alexandria, RIP, and possibly even paper. Everything except maybe sausages.
Sausages are timeless.
Now, the holiest of temples to the frivolous use of that bleached and woven plant matter dutifully adds “Nor Lack of Funding” to their familiar yet unofficial motto.
The federal government has shut down as of midnight this morning, requiring many federal employees considered “essential” to work without pay. Congress, America’s most expensive retirement community without a pickleball court, has yet to agree on how hard to kick the can down the road.
Seriously, though, the Four Seasons 55+ community down the road has, like, three pickleball courts that I don’t pay taxes for.
What the hell, guys?
They must really think that life here in suburban America will retain its stability when the mail carriers who don’t even come to our doors anymore to deliver have to do it for no pay!
They don’t call it going postal because we are bubble-wrapping ourselves for an “if it fits, it ships” to Pickledent, Indiana.
It’s probably mostly due to fighting over parking spaces in front of the communal mail-jail that we all are forced to use, instead of the convenient mail slot that enables seniors with mobility issues to continue living alone.
They also didn’t consider that the giant mail-jails for the whole block would become targets for theft…just in case someone wanted my copy of this month’s Adam and Eve Catalog, or my Reason Magazine, and didn’t want to pay for it.
Lots of great articles in that publication. Reason Magazine is good too.
REGARDLESS
It has been brought to my attention that no threat of inclement weather, time of day, or availability of pay will stop these noble heroes from delivering me couples enhancement publications, Adam and Eve catalogues, or more importantly, a nature preserve’s worth of tax bills, credit card offers, and other kindling, free of charge.
God Bless America, and God Bless the Postal Service.
Well done!