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Author Topic: Anyone carry Eureka miniatures in North America  (Read 3609 times)

Offline Conquistador

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Re: Anyone carry Eureka miniatures in North America
« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2014, 11:26:42 AM »
Can't speak for your country.   :)  Have to take your opinion as probably correct.   :-I

FACT:  Here in the USA the Post Office isn't officially totally government anymore.  Opinion verging onto a minefield:  Congress just meddles, micro-manages, and protects selected interests...

From Wikipedia:

The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office and U.S. Mail, is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution.

and

The USPS employed 522,144 workers and operated 212,530 vehicles in 2012.[3] The USPS is the operator of the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world.[4] The USPS is legally obligated to serve all Americans, regardless of geography, at uniform price and quality. The USPS has exclusive access to letter boxes marked "U.S. Mail" and personal letterboxes in the United States, but still competes against private package delivery services, such as UPS and FedEx.[5]

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.[6] Since the 2006 all-time peak mail volume,[7] after which Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act,[8] (which mandated $5.5 billion per year to be paid into an account to pre-fund retiree health-care, 75 years into the future, a requirement unique among organizations and businesses in the U.S.[9]), revenue dropped sharply due to recession-influenced[10] declining mail volume,[11] prompting the postal service to look to other sources of revenue while cutting costs to reduce its budget deficit.[12] The USPS lost US$ 5 billion in 2013, and its revenue was US$ 66 billion.

Hence, the worst of both Private and Government (Euphemism: Public.)

Thank God for Eureka, USA, in the past!  (That phrase is a religious declaration used by certain atheists on this board in the past so it is not a religious discussion IMO.)

Now I just have a few Bears to get for the wife...

Gracias,

Glenn


Edit: Bolding and other forms of emphasis added by me.
Viva Alta California!  Las guerras de España,  Las guerras de las Américas,  Las guerras para la Libertad!

 

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