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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sholom, post: 591574, member: 17753&quot;]Exactly.&nbsp; Further, the Mint was probably pressured to do so.&nbsp; That happens a lot around these parts (I work in DC).&nbsp; That&#039;s why I cringe when I hear people yell at the mint.&nbsp; It&#039;s Pitney Bowes that&#039;s messing up.&nbsp; Yes, I know the Mint hired PB, but they may not have had much of a choice.</p><p><br /></p><p>Suppose a husband wants to fix a sink, and the wife says, &quot;no way, you can&#039;t do it well, hire a plumber&quot; and a plumber comes in a messes it up.&nbsp; Do we blame the husband?</p><p><br /></p><p>Granted - we should be complaining to the mint about PB&#039;s poor service, and, hopefully, when&nbsp; the contract is up for renewal, they can be dq&#039;d on account of lousy service.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, being a govt worker, it peaves me to hear, all the time, that &quot;government can&#039;t do anything right, outsource it to the private sector&quot;, and then here is a case where govt *did* outsource it to the private sector, but the govt agency still gets blamed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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