Seen in Print

[HONDO74]

Maybe it's a porno doll for women......

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Maybe it's a porno doll for women......

Maybe it's just disturbing and yet another display of what goes on in marketing & sales departments....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

It is unfortunate design. I can only hope it was not deliberate for any tawdry reasons because I'm going to imagine the designers would not like walking into a room at home where children have claimed the figure as a toy and were busy inflating it. Not a good picture.

[Roy]

It is unfortunate design. I can only hope it was not deliberate for any tawdry reasons because I'm going to imagine the designers would not like walking into a room at home where children have claimed the figure as a toy and were busy inflating it. Not a good picture.

Anyone caught watching a child inflating it would be put on the list of registered sex offenders.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

It is unfortunate design. I can only hope it was not deliberate for any tawdry reasons because I'm going to imagine the designers would not like walking into a room at home where children have claimed the figure as a toy and were busy inflating it. Not a good picture.

Anyone caught watching a child inflating it would be put on the list of registered sex offenders.

Good point!

[up148]

I do not understand why mail mailed in our local post office to someone with a box in that same post office needs to be sent 150 miles away and returned to the same post office to be delivered.

Once upon a time, the USPS was making a profit and turning excess monies over to the US Government.

In 2006, a lame-duck Congress mandated that the Postal Service pre-fund retiree healthcare, pensions, and workers’ compensation. No other agency or company in the country has to pre-fund for even one year; the Postal Service must pre-fund 75 years' worth of these benefits in advance. That $5.6 billion annual charge is the “red ink.”

What if your credit card company told you: “You will charge a million dollars on your credit card during your life; please enclose the million dollars in your next bill payment. It’s the responsible thing to do.” Doesn’t seem quite right, does it?

Well, that’s what the U.S. Postal Service’s requirement to prefund its long-term pension and healthcare liabilities is like. The Postal Service is required to pay the full estimate of its liabilities, currently estimated at nearly $404 billion, even as that estimate moves around and is based on assumptions that are highly uncertain and can frequently change over the life of the liability.

To meet the liability, the USPS told Congress that they would have to shut down certain operations, like the mail sorting operation at Roger's post office, in order to save money for the pre-fund payments. Thousands of postal employees would be out of work. Congress did not care. So, the USPS said they would have to sell their real estate holdings to make the pre-fund payments. Congress did not care. So, the USPS is now cutting jobs and selling post offices in order to make the pre-fund payments demanded by Congress.

You are lucky to have a post office, Roger. Many of the 3,653 post offices on the shutdown list have already been shut down and sold.

The USPS shutdown the sorting operation at Tucson's main post office. Now when I mail a letter to myself, it makes a 240 mile round trip to the USPS sorting facility in Phoenix, AZ.

Reference: https://www.uspsoig.gov/blog/be-careful-what-you-assume
http://www.newsweek.com/post-office-ain ... -it-397788
https://about.usps.com/careers/working- ... nefits.htm

I didn't know (or forgot) any of it, but it's the most ignorant f*cking thing I've heard Congress do for a long time. No totally private company has to fund these programs in advance and retirees get screwed all the time..,What make the USPS so special that their employees can't take a chance to be screwed too?

BH

BH

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I didn't know (or forgot) any of it, but it's the most ignorant f*cking thing I've heard Congress do for a long time. No totally private company has to fund these programs in advance and retirees get screwed all the time..,What make the USPS so special that their employees can't take a chance to be screwed too?

If that was the lame duck congress prior to the 2006 elections, then I think that was a Repub congress with Bush signing the bill.....that congress was good at embracing strange.

[webenda]

I didn't know (or forgot) any of it, but it's the most ignorant f*cking thing I've heard Congress do for a long time. No totally private company has to fund these programs in advance and retirees get screwed all the time..,What make the USPS so special that their employees can't take a chance to be screwed too?

If that was the lame duck congress prior to the 2006 elections, then I think that was a Repub congress with Bush signing the bill.....that congress was good at embracing strange.

That was the one.

In 2002-2003, it was discovered that the USPS was contributing far more than necessary to fully fund its pensions on the "pay-as-you-go" plan. Congress became concerned about the over funding. What if the USPS fell on hard times and the fund became underfunded?

Congress decided a pension “savings fund” could help patch retiree health benefit underfunding should it ever occur. In 2006, as part of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA), the Postal Service Retirement Health Benefits Fund (RHBF) was established.

Because postal rates had previously increased enough to cover pension costs and a temporary escrow account into which pension “savings” were placed in 2006, the Service’s rates should have been high enough to cover its RHBF contributions. Shortly after PAEA’s enactment, however, the Great Recession and accelerated electronic diversion crushed mail demand and postal revenue fell far short of earlier expectations.

The Service lost money nine years in a row, with total losses of $56.8 billion for 2007-2015.

In that adverse business environment, the Service experienced enormous difficulty meeting its RHBF requirements. The challenge was especially great because Congress specified a front-loaded RHBF contribution schedule: yearly payments averaging roughly $5.6 billion during the 10 years 2007-2016, with any remaining unfunded liability to be paid over 40 years starting in 2017. When the depth and persistence of the mail decline became apparent, Congress should have replaced the front-loaded schedule with a gradual one, but it did not.

The Postal Service has defaulted on every RHBF payment since 2010, although it had enough cash to make modest partial payments in the last couple of years. The defaults have not affected the benefits of current retirees. While defaults normally have severe repercussions, the Service has incurred no penalties.

Through 2015, the Postal Service had contributed a total of $20.9 billion to the RHBF and defaulted on $28.1 billion. The RHBF also received $17.1 billion from an overfunded pension account. The RHBF’s unfunded liability was $54.8 billion at the end of 2015.

The Postal Service’s financial challenges are well publicized. From FY 2007 to FY 2016, it lost $62.4 billion, with $54.8 billion of that total related to prefunding retiree health care. Furthermore, the Postal Service believes it is unlikely to make all legally required payments in FY 2017, based on the availability of cash and its inability to borrow.

https://www.uspsoig.gov/document/update ... iabilities

[webenda]

How would you like to have this sign as an albatross around your neck?

Larry L. Archie Attorney
101 South Elm St, Ste 35
Greensboro, NC
(336) 285-7202
"I can't do business what with the phone ringing off the hook and reporters showing up to ask about the sign."

The Law Office of Larry L. Archie
338 N Elm St
Greensboro, NC
(336) 285-7202
"I moved, but the sign followed me."

Attorney Larry L. Archie
611 Summit Ave. Suite #4
Greensboro, NC 27405
(336) 763-8728
"I changed my phone number but they found it. No matter what I do or where I go, that sign follows me."

See Isaiah 5:22-23

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Aawwww, I feel for him. Poor victim.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

How would you like to have this sign as an albatross around your neck?

I remember posting that sign what feels like a long time now......and it's back again following us around.

[webenda]

How would you like to have this sign as an albatross around your neck?

I remember posting that sign what feels like a long time now......and it's back again following us around.

I don't know how old it is but I first saw in 2015.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

How would you like to have this sign as an albatross around your neck?

I remember posting that sign what feels like a long time now......and it's back again following us around.

I don't know how old it is but I first saw in 2015.

What's old is new........

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Roy]

Just who is pooping off overpasses, and why?