USPS Blues

[Jonny Nexus]

Ah. I've always wondered what those where. I keep seeing them in movies, but always thought it was decoration of some kind.

I think that if the Finnish postal workers were required to pick up all outgoing mail from peoples homes they'd go on a permanent strike.

Same here! In the UK, our post service is strictly one-way: from the postman to your letter box. If you want to send something, you have to walk to the local pillar box (the big red cylindrical postbox thing) and post it there.

On the other hand, the post gets delivered right to your hallway mat (though the letter box in your front door) so you don't have to go out to collect it. Given that I receive about 500 pieces of post a year and send out about 3, I'd say on balance I'd prefer it our way.

Irrelevent (but hopefully amusing) language point:

In the US, the United States Postal Service employs mailmen to deliver the mail.

In the UK, the Royal Mail employs postmen to deliver the post.

 

[jonesy]

Irrelevent (but hopefully amusing) language point:

In the US, the United States Postal Service employs mailmen to deliver the mail.

In the UK, the Royal Mail employs postmen to deliver the post.

Here it's all about the "post".

Postittajat postittavat postin Postiin ja Postista postimiehille jotka postittavat postin postiluukuista postitettaville. =)

Translated it goes as:
The people who send mail first send it to the Postal Service and the Postal Service, via mailmen, sends the mail through letter boxes to the people receiving mail.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Saturday, I received a package I had ordered that was too big for my box, the postman only stopped because I was out in the yard and told me he would have either left the package on my car or took it back to the post office and sent a letter to pick it up there because they do not get out of the truck anymore!

LEAVE IT ON MY CAR! WTF! Good thing I live in a rural area!

 

[GentleGiant]

Here it's all about the "post".

Postittajat postittavat postin Postiin ja Postista postimiehille jotka postittavat postin postiluukuista postitettaville. =)

OR, as I usually put it to my Finnish... "lady friend": Gobble gobble gobble

 

[Arnwyn]

Still, he seemed to hit at least some other houses on the cul-de-sac, and as my wife said about my comment that getting out in the snow to reach our mailbox may have been a pain, "yeah, but that's his job."

Not where I'm from. If you don't shovel, they don't have to deliver.

 

[Desdichado]

Not where I'm from. If you don't shovel, they don't have to deliver.

What? You shovel your street? Where I'm from, we only shovel the sidewalks; the city ploughs the streets.

 

[Sammael]

Tsk, tsk... spoiled capitalists.

Over here, I have to go to the post office to pick up my mail if it's anything larger than a magazine. And if I don't pick it up within a day, I have to go to the main municipal post office rather than the one that's a few streets away.

 

[Jonny Nexus]

Here it's all about the "post".

Postittajat postittavat postin Postiin ja Postista postimiehille jotka postittavat postin postiluukuista postitettaville. =)

Translated it goes as:
The people who send mail first send it to the Postal Service and the Postal Service, via mailmen, sends the mail through letter boxes to the people receiving mail.

That's an awesome amount of "posts"!

 

[Arnwyn]

What? You shovel your street? Where I'm from, we only shovel the sidewalks; the city ploughs the streets.

I mean our sidewalk. Our mailboxes are right at our doors - so when I responded to "getting out in the snow to reach (the) mailbox" and "yeah, but that's his job", I was referring to the sidewalks in our area.

 

[jaerdaph]

So much for "through rain and sleet and snow and hail..."