U S Postal Service -- How to Care -- UPDATE

About twice a year, I receive a plastic bag from the United States Post Office with the remnants of shredded mail inside. A “sincere apology” pre-printed on the bag explains how a government agency that repeatedly is raising the postal tax has to process great volumes by the “most expeditious distribution possible.”

To be completely fair to the post office it is usually not a piece of first class mail but a magazine rendered illegible by the government machinery. The magazine publishers receive a discount for being the best customers and sending high volumes of mail. The best customers get the worst treatment.

The first time I received one of these bags was during the Clinton presidency and I noted at that time that the US Postal Service really cares about nothing because it is a government monopoly. As I showed the bag to friends, I asked what type of system and apology they might expect from a socialized health system. Would the US Department of Socialized Medicine have body bags explaining that in order to provide the most expeditious care possible we sometimes make mistakes and ask for our understanding?

Government health care should be limited to mandates to employers who can then provide through a free enterprise system. At most, they should hand out vouchers to the needy to purchase health care coverage and services. The myriad rules, regulations, and waste of Medicare and Medicaid teach us that government does not practice medicine well.
The last sentence on the bag states, “We assure you that we are constantly striving to improve our processing methods in order that even a rare occurrence may be eliminated.” As I stated earlier, this occurs about twice a year and my first receipt of a mail “body bag” was over 10 years ago.

“Government is not the solution to our problems, Government is the problem.” Ronald Reagan

UPDATE:The post office has determined that the frequent increases in first class mail are insufficient and they may need to suspend one day of mail shredding each week. Think about the corollary with health care. Doctors offices, clinics, hospitals, labs, and ambulance services shut down one day a week to save money.