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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4740982, member: 110504"]DonnaML, I really appreciate your tact in gently calling certain esteemed members on their (...sort of) implicit political biases.</p><p>This is offered as a halting attempt to say something meaningful about the issue in the absence of ...well, explicit political overtones. Doubt it'll be any better, but here goes.</p><p>The USPS is a constant headache. (...Regarding delays from Europe, years of buying online have taught me to enjoy the anticipation, as an integral part of the process. But from here, everything that's ever been 'lost in the mail' has been lost once it arrived in New York. Right, with the ensuing blame game between the USPS and Customs. Been there, done that. Once, regarding something bought unattributed, for something in the higher two figures, which was worth somewhere in the low three. ...From that point, yeah, the logistics are getting only more ominous.)</p><p>Except, from where we find ourselves now, what is to be done? Do we <i>junk</i> it (as we're watching happen in real time), or do we Fix it, Instead?</p><p>The parallel that leaps to mind is the American public educational system. Yeah, Broken as Hell (surely from my own experience, from the later '60's), but, Junk it, or Fix it?</p><p>As Dick Gregory used to say, "Locate your oppressor." In either case, do we blame the victim? Or address the chronic, structural underfunding of two pillars of the kind of infrastructure that belongs in any civilized society?</p><p>...Or should America go down in history as the greatest Third World economy on the face of the globe?</p><p>...Oh, No. Don't think this managed the avoidance of other than crudely implicit political overtones. Sorry. Best I was up to.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4740982, member: 110504"]DonnaML, I really appreciate your tact in gently calling certain esteemed members on their (...sort of) implicit political biases. This is offered as a halting attempt to say something meaningful about the issue in the absence of ...well, explicit political overtones. Doubt it'll be any better, but here goes. The USPS is a constant headache. (...Regarding delays from Europe, years of buying online have taught me to enjoy the anticipation, as an integral part of the process. But from here, everything that's ever been 'lost in the mail' has been lost once it arrived in New York. Right, with the ensuing blame game between the USPS and Customs. Been there, done that. Once, regarding something bought unattributed, for something in the higher two figures, which was worth somewhere in the low three. ...From that point, yeah, the logistics are getting only more ominous.) Except, from where we find ourselves now, what is to be done? Do we [I]junk[/I] it (as we're watching happen in real time), or do we Fix it, Instead? The parallel that leaps to mind is the American public educational system. Yeah, Broken as Hell (surely from my own experience, from the later '60's), but, Junk it, or Fix it? As Dick Gregory used to say, "Locate your oppressor." In either case, do we blame the victim? Or address the chronic, structural underfunding of two pillars of the kind of infrastructure that belongs in any civilized society? ...Or should America go down in history as the greatest Third World economy on the face of the globe? ...Oh, No. Don't think this managed the avoidance of other than crudely implicit political overtones. Sorry. Best I was up to.[/QUOTE]
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