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Monday, December 14, 2009

When You Control the Mail, You Control...Information!

That quote from a famous Seinfeld episode, and before I go to the story I have to run this clip:

If your mother-in-law's mail goes through the Waterbury or Wallingford post offices, she might not have received the birthday card you sent in time.

Apparently managers at the post office have been hiding mail, Ray Arcovio, president of the Waterbury area postal worker’s union, told the Waterbury Republican-American. And he wants to sincerely apologize.

Workers have been stuffing mail into closets and unused rooms at mail facilities in Waterbury and Wallingford because they don’t know how to keep up with such a high volume of mail, he told the newspaper.

"They're just pushing it aside for the next day," Arcovio told the paper. "We've had issues with them hiding the mail."

Go forward a few years when another government run industry, health care, quotes a government doctor saying "We've had issues with them hiding the old sick people."

It'll happen.

1 comment:

Happy Elf Mom (Christine) said...

YES. Insurers aren't always angelic either, though. I'm not sure that "free market" works when some people will need a high level of care and others remain healthy. Not sure what the "answer" is or even if there is an answer. :[