re:[Pen-l] Post Office efficiency? [was: Charter schools]

[Gassler Robert <rsgassle@xxxxxxxxx>]

If the post office were not a model of something, then why would FED ex and UNITED Parcel Service try so hard to be confused with it? Especially the former, with its red, white, and blue logo etc. 

>me:
>>> ... No-one sees the post office as a
>>> model of efficiency.
>
>Doug:
>> But it is, actually. I've been publishing a newsletter for over 20 years, so
>> I have a lot of experience with the postal service. It works very well, they
>> deliver everywhere, and it's cheap. FedEx doesn't go everywhere, is quite
>> expensive, and you often have to stand in line there too.
>
>maybe the post office is efficient, and more efficient than FedEx (and
>UPS too?) But (even using a narrow economic definition) it's not the
>model of efficiency, is it?
>
>I agree that the post office is pretty good these days. The mail seems
>to be running faster than it used to.
>
>BTW, who was it who said that socialism would be organized like the
>modern post office? I think Lenin quoted someone.
>-- 
>Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
>way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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