My family recently received a request from the Census Bureau to participate in a medical survey, and of course I told the survey taker that I was not going to participate because it was not part of the Constitutional charter of the Census Bureau.
The next day, I got a FedEx overnight letter asking me to participate. Now this tells me a lot about our government. First of all, they don't trust the Postal Service to deliver a letter. Second, they really don't mind throwing taxpayer money down the toilet by sending needless letters via FedEx overnight service. Third, they really don't have a clue that the Census Bureau is really authorized to ask only one question; "how many people live at this address?".
And some people want people like this to handle medical care. Yikes!
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But notice they were really efficient about getting the letter to you quickly. (After all, it's not a matter of "trust" that they don't expect a letter to get from Washington to Minnesota overnight -- that's not USPS's mission and never has been.)
So the lesson is that they're really effective where they think it matters -- harassing people about nosy census practices. Which tells you a lot about what they think matters.
The USPS does offer overnight parcel service, though.
And guess who carries military shipments, even small boxes that the USPS could easily handle? Think "brown."
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