Encourage every #MAGA to step away from their shiny new $6 billion tax for a moment & consider the circumstances & future they created for their oldest #rural relative.

Sitting in a freezing northern home with no heat subsidy or a swamped southern home without #fema, missing their puny #SocSec check because a trespassing bigball hacker fucked it up with no redress by phone, no #MealsonWheels, Sr center, or foodbank, #Medicare cut, no rural mail or #postoffice, scared of everything #Fox parlays.

From Nakayla McClelland: New Mexicans who live more than 50 miles from Albuquerque will have to wait additional time to receive their mail — the result of another cost-cutting change within the U.S. Postal Service that went into effect Tuesday.

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_cd70c753-01b8-46da-bca0-7801342a8800.html

#BettyWhite now has her own #ForeverStamp from the #USPS , thanks to Boston-area artist #DaleStephanos .

It took him about a year to design and complete. At the request of Betty's family, he included references to her work championing the cause of #AmimalRights , the most obvious symbol being the pawprint earring.

Stephanos' image of Betty brilliantly captures her sense of mischief and fun, by perfectly portraying her joyful smile and sparkling eyes.

#BettyWhiteStamps are now available for purchase through the U.S. Postal Service.

#Philatily #StampCollecting #Stamps #Art #CommemorativeStamps #PostalService #PostOffice #Boston #AnimalAdvocates #USPostalService #USMail

https://youtu.be/oa-qYEknUWs?si=S1O93Ulk1AvzYCqI

Please copy and paste into the forms on the websites of your members of Congress, and share with others. #Resist

Iinherently governmental functions should stay rooted in the government, and I wish to make it clear that I am against #privatization of essential government programs.

#MedicareAdvantage -the "market solution" to make #Medicare more efficient and cost the government less-costs the government more than Traditional Medicare, $80 billion more in 2024. Please ask the question loudly and frequently, "How does privatization help when it actually costs more? Why do we support a program that costs more when the lower-cost option already exists?"

Listen to the discussions about privatizing the "unprofitable" post office. Privatizing simply means that someone will extract profit out of the thing being privatized. Given the same resources, the same logistical constraints, and same desired services, how will privatization of the #PostOffice serve all Americans? Please ask the question frequently and loudly, "Who would benefit from privatization?"

We all know the answer: the rich and the connected. But talk about it often on social media and every time you are interviewed.

Please make the point in every discussion on the topic that privatization is always about extracting profit. It is never about serving Americans. Then please do everything in your power to fight efforts to privatize essential government services.

SAVE THE POST OFFICE

SIGN THIS PETITION

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-trumps-illegal-usps-takeover

#USPS
#PostOffice
#USPOL

a half hum, alto, chocolatey

Woman Singing in the Post Office
Cathy Barber

#Poetry #CathyBarber #PostOffice #LaScala #Karaoke #Customs

https://beltmag.com/woman-singing-in-the-post-office/

 
Moon over the old Post Office

Near #FullMoon and Krononaut Moon (minus 1 night) over #Catonsville #MD #US. 2025 Mar 12 EDT 9pm. Almost the #TotalLunarEclipse.

#KronoMoon #MoonOverMastodon

February 21, 1861 - The Confederate #PostOffice was established. Shortages of ink, paper, and postage stamps limited the amount of mail sent. The Confederate Post Office Department raised its rate to 5 cents on a half ounce letter. The increase still did not meet the expenses, so on July 1, 1862, the rate was standardized to 10 cents per letter, with newspaper and book rates dependent upon weight. Service was also reduced to three times per week [Source: Civil War Talk https://civilwartalk.com/threads/postal-service-during-the-civil-war.7390/ ]

The imposing former post office building on Waterloo Street in Glasgow. Designed in a Classical style by W.T. Oldrieve, it was built in 1903.

One of my five works currently showing in the newly opened Spring Exhibition at the Velvet Easel Gallery

The Post
21x15cm acrylic & oil on board
link to gallery website in my profile

SPRING EXHIBITION : 01 Feb - 25 May
Gallery hours : Weds-Sat 10-5 // Sun 11-5
velveteasel.co.uk | available via own.art
#Portobello #Edinburgh #Scotland

I work in the back room, where the poetry is made

My Ideal Job
Philip Jason

#Poetry #PhilipJason #PostOffice #DodgingTheRain

https://dodgingtherain.com/2025/01/01/philip-jason-my-ideal-job/

Is entertainment a better way to inform about news events than actual reported stories? Sometimes it seems that way, as suggested by public response to recent dramatizations about the British Post Office scandal. #theater #postoffice

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2024/1219/uk-post-office-scandal-musical?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Culture @culture-csmonitor

The post office finally delivered the package that spent over a week stuck in an Ohio distro. They damaged one package from Amazon and had to send it back, lost a return I made (so I'm probably out that money), and one package is taking the scenic route from NY to VA via IL.

And this is only going to get worse.

Something I've just noticed about the Post Office Inquiry is that its official title is the "Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry".

Sorry, but that's BS. Plenty of companies use buggy software at one time or another. They don't all try to cover it up and ruin people's lives as a result.

It should be called the "Post Office Leadership Failure Inquiry". Trying to blame it on some dodgy software when the real villains are human beings who behaved appallingly makes me angry.