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Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!
« Reply #40 on: May 27, 2025, 04:14:52 PM »
When I was a kid, my older brother asked me this riddle.

If a police car, fire truck, ambulance, and mail truck all arrive at a 4-way stop at the same time, who has the right of way?

The lying idiot told me the mail truck had the right of way because it's a government vehicle. I believe he meant U.S. government vehicle, since many emergency vehicles are also government vehicles, usually state or local.

The truth is, as the only non-emergency vehicle, the mail truck has to yield to all 3 of the other vehicles. Assuming all 3 have their lights and sirens off, or all 3 have them on, the mail truck yields to the vehicle to their right. That vehicle yields to the vehicle to its right. And that vehicle yields to the vehicle to its right. So the vehicle to the mail truck's left go first, then the next vehicle to the left, then the next, and finally the mail truck. If 1 or 2 of the emergency vehicles have their lights and sirens on, they have the right of way over the 1 or 2 that don't, and the mail truck is still the 4th place loser. Like my brother. :)  He's 5 1/2 years older than me, so he was practically an adult in my eyes, and still is, ;)  and he's apparently an authority on everything. And because of all the crap he made up and told me, and I believed it, Weird Al's song Everything You Know Is Wrong has special significance to me. When I said something to my mom about all the lies her favorite son told me, she defended him of course, and said he had an active imagination. Active imagination is Mom-speak for Full of S**t. Everything you know is wrong, Black is white, up is down and short is long, And everything you thought was just so important doesn't matter, Everything you know is wrong. Everything I thought I knew that my brother told me is wrong.

I was driving on the freeway in the fast lane
With a rabid wolverine in my underwear
When suddenly a guy behind me in the backseat
Popped right up and cupped his hands across my eyes
I guessed is it Uncle Frank or Cousin Louie?
Is it Bob or Joe or Walter?
Could it be Bill or Jim
Or Ed or Bernie or Steve?
I probably would have kept on guessing
But about that time we crashed into a truck
And as I'm laying bleeding there on the asphalt
Finally I recognize the face of my Hibachi dealer
Who takes off his prosthetic lips and tells me

[Chorus]
Everything you know is wrong
Black is white, up is down and short is long
And everything you thought was just so important doesn't matter
Everything you know is wrong
Just forget the words and sing along
All you need to understand is
Everything you know is wrong

[Verse 2]
I was walking to the kitchen for some Golden Grahams
When I accidentally stepped into an alternate dimension
And soon I was abducted by some aliens from space who kinda looked like Jamie Farr
They sucked out my internal organs
And they took some Polaroids
And said I was a darn good sport
And as a way of saying thank you
They offered to transport me
Back to any point in history that I would care to go
And so I had them send me back to last Thursday night
So I could pay my phone bill on time
Just then the floating disembodied head of Colonel Sanders started yelling

[Chorus]
Everything you know is wrong
Black is white, up is down and short is long
And everything you thought was just so important doesn't matter
Everything you know is wrong
Just forget the words and sing along
All you need to understand is
Everything you know is wrong

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
I was just about to mail a letter to my evil twin
When I got a nasty paper cut
And well, to make a long story short
It got infected and I died
So now I'm up in heaven with Saint Peter by the pearly gates
And it's obvious he doesn't like the Nehru jacket that I'm wearing
He tells me that they've got a dress code
Well, he lets me into Heaven anyway
But I get the room next to the noisy ice machine for all eternity
And every day he runs by screaming

[Chorus]
Everything you know is wrong
Black is white, up is down and short is long
And everything you used to think was so important
Doesn't really matter anymore
Because the simple fact remains that
Everything you know is wrong
Just forget the words and sing along
All you need to understand is that
Everything you know is wrong (Everything you know is wrong)
Everything you know is wrong


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Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!
« Reply #41 on: June 05, 2025, 08:02:50 PM »
My package that left ALBANY, WI on the afternoon of May 7th got here today, June 5th. That's 4 weeks and 1 day to travel what Google Maps says is a 6 hour, 10 minute drive. It's a 25 hour bike ride if you take a ferry ride across Lake Michigan, so it's 20 hours of riding and 5 hours sitting on a boat. The replacement package that was sent the afternoon of  May 16th, because this one never showed up, is still lost. It arrived in Detroit May 19th, and was supposedly in transit to the next facility on the 25th. That was 11 days ago and it still hasn't made it anyplace from Detroit. This package arrived in Detroit May 9th and Pontiac May 24th. I assume it left Detroit to get there, but there's no record of that. It was In Transit to Next Facility May 28th and ended up in Flint today. It took 12 days to go the last 40 miles, and 15 days to go 30 miles before that, for a total of 27 days from Detroit to Flint, which is only an hour drive. Let me repeat that so it has a chance to sink in. My package took 27 days to get from Detroit to Flint, which is only an hour drive. Check it yourself on Google Maps if you think I'm exaggerating. It's 68.5 miles down I-75.
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Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!
« Reply #42 on: June 15, 2025, 02:39:40 AM »
The daily Informed Delivery email from the post office on June 14th told me that my package has arrived. On may 5th. ???  Just shy of 6 weeks ago. Gee, thanks for letting me know my package was delivered. ::)  I think this was from Olight but I'm not sure. The replacement for the missing package from Dead Foot Arms never showed up, and they took any record of it off my account.
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Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!
« Reply #43 on: June 17, 2025, 05:23:04 PM »
Wife ordered some sugar-based edible decorations for some cookies she had to make. Fed-Oops threw it on the ground next to the mailbox, took a photo for the delivery proof and then said it was delivered there due to the driveway being gated...... We do not have, and have never had, a gated drive. They should know this since they've thrown plenty of packages on the ground next to the vehicles and between the trucks and back porch.... Idiots.
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Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!
« Reply #44 on: June 18, 2025, 04:09:44 AM »
It sounds like FedEx and UPS both have a few bad drivers, but USPS is incompetent.
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Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!
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Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!
« Reply #45 on: June 22, 2025, 09:40:37 AM »
USPS has been okay the last couple of weeks but FedUpEx was a disappointment this week.

Ordered a laser level, (green, self-leveling, X pattern, 165’ outdoors) mainly to survey Steel Challenge stages, but also a fun toy and useful around the house.  Twice Saturday I got emails from FX that it would be delivered between 10 and 2 on Saturday.  TWICE.  I didn’t really get my hopes up because when I checked tracking details it wasn’t marked Out For Delivery.  Sure enough at 11pm the status was changed to We’ll Update You When We figure Out What We’re Doing. 

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Re: The U.S. Postal Service stikes again!
« Reply #46 on: June 22, 2025, 11:00:20 PM »
Quote from: alfsauve on June 22, 2025, 09:40:37 AM
USPS has been okay the last couple of weeks but FedUpEx was a disappointment this week.

Ordered a laser level, (green, self-leveling, X pattern, 165’ outdoors) mainly to survey Steel Challenge stages, but also a fun toy and useful around the house.  Twice Saturday I got emails from FX that it would be delivered between 10 and 2 on Saturday.  TWICE.  I didn’t really get my hopes up because when I checked tracking details it wasn’t marked Out For Delivery.  Sure enough at 11pm the status was changed to We’ll Update You When We figure Out What We’re Doing.

I have the post office do that more than anyone, but by email. They'll tell me something is expected to be delivered today, and when I look to see where it is, it's still in another state.
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