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it's gonna we're because now I'm looking at you, but I can clearly see my peripheral vision that see I'm faced by waving. Suppressing her teeth she's rearranging the severed human heads that are in jars hell around the place as creepy yeah. You want post office man do you want to give the disclaimer? They are only talking about the post office in the? U S of a key jested. Ok, don't know how works in your country no one. Actually it's probably not nearly as interesting is, what's going on with the? U S: postal service, the? U S, p S, consent if you no sir, not check but the U S pieces in a lot of trouble. There their solvency that the amount of money that they have to keep the lights on and keep everything going is exe. Did run out in October two thousand thirteen, if they don't do something else this year yeah, I think they lost sixteen billion dollars last year, yes, in five billion a year before, so that's it,

three times as much money in a year. That's bad news. Here's the caviar that sixteen billion dollar lost them. Eleven billion of that was in payments to the future benefits of Postal workers that have not yet retired but well yeah eleven billion of it was to these future payment. I guess it would make sense. Then. Then, if you took out that eleven, they would just be about the same losses before drawing a mere five billion a year. Each year in two thousand six, a lame duck session of Congress said you know what you guys need to make sure that your workers are taken care of right. So you guys have to start preparing and over the next ten years and they have been and they ve been bleeding money. I mean like a sixteen billion dollar loss. But eleven billion of it was to these future payment. I guess it would make sense. Then. Then, if you took out that eleven, they would just be at about the same losses before drawing a mere five billion a year right, but it s a lot of money to live. It is, but

their figuring out ways to make up for their actual loss and one of the big ones on the table now is cutting out. Today: delivery yeah- I guess Yet here they figure they can recoup two billion dollars a year. Now doing that so than the down to three the This is the posts for the post office. It's part of the executive branch man, it's all over the place, is a party, negative branch to part of the your government, but it zero dollars and tax revenue, and it's also a thrill kill cult. That's the horrible secret. The years are all right so they get no money besides what they can make of them. Own revenue, the other Sally Cooperation right. So they get. But they didn't, but there also or under the purview of the federal, the federal govern yeah so weird word than ever,

an act without asking Congress in Congress has an exactly been forthcoming lately. Yet they haven't approved the Saturday thing it had they Congress, here's the thing is still up: they ve been tried. Congress super that forever the Senate possibility said after two years will let you cut out Saturday service will give you eleven billion dollars and over payments that you guys made towards their retirement stuff. All is the fact that went to the house in the house to do anything with their right dear, so you know the fiscal cliff well, you the? U S? Congress passed a stopgap measure, basically a federal budget that says within this period, we're still able to operate right, bright and the? U S PS. As ha, you didn't Klute our mandate from teen, eighty one that we have to carry out Saturday. Service Ryan, that stop get so technically under current federal law. We do have to carry on already service in their arguing that legally so there to say that's the loophole. They're gonna use to shut down Socrates, or with yes and high diverting now ages, medicines, just packages,

going to deliver package sincerity and here's a really good reasonings voicemail their revenues from packages of increased sixteen percent over the last ten years, whereas first, class mail in letters- have gone down. Thirty two then I believe they're, making all almost all of their money cuz. It's only zero dollars and forty five cents to mail, a letter from Florida to Hawaii, four thousand six hundred and forty six. Now They make, however, much shipping in the shipping game, which is where they make all their money, which is, I ran away the one place they don't have a monopoly. As far as the male guess, I'm glad to see medicine mail order medicine on that, nonetheless, to express rail packages in medicine because it verses like who cares, I don't need I dont. Yet I don't need my mail on a Saturday right, but your medicine on a Saturday Grassy GO play. Well, that's why they included. That is now something they would still deliver right: and post offices that are already open on saturdays will still be open on saturdays yeah, so

You wanna go to your p, o box maybe they'll, be some male. Maybe there won't be, who knows a bet? You ve had a p o box. I've been thinking about this. Having now really there have you now. You just struck me as a kind of person that would have had a p o box. One point: that's what I get on my guns in the mail. So I'm pretty worked up about this. As you can see its current thing here and who'd have thought that the posters so it ever be interesting. Sure thing parts of this are very interesting. And we would just wanna go and say hello to all of our postal carriers out there near that, listen to our show who one is over during the Bush error, because we ve gotten emails from you guys and gauss yeah. Including one of our favorite people out, there is a poster worker who reigned. Austrian, oh yeah, this We should really be a tribute to their nostrils. Didn't he's a carrier, I'm he's always been kind of cryptic about.

He does, but I'm, and that is impression, think an impression by the postal service the right bangalore- is their yeah. This is for you, but ok. So, let's talk about this was talk about the posters, This may involve chairs about the. U S: Pierre stood at heart, So, for a little while, even after the advent of electronic mail, the postal, services. The amount male they were delivering was still increasing of two thousand seven. It was on an upward trajectory, sorry to doesn't six right too, thirteen billion one hundred and thirty seven million pieces of mail that year yeah must, on the one sixty seven now yeah, and then there was this written. I think two dozen. Seventy doesn't it ok. So then they had seven hundred thousand employees. Now they have about five hundred and eighty thousand Joe, a ban in and trim the budget mode, yank for the past few years. Well,

may I remind you, doesn't six? They also made seventy two point: eight billion dollars. I mean those stamps add up. You know in two thousand and eleven. They made sixty six billion, while not bad yeah, but there still losing a lot of money. I mean that's what seven billion dollars indifference in just five years near stuck it so where the word others come from Chuck, it came from back Yonder day People always need to communicate. Obviously, for long distances and in sixteen thirty nine they. No colonist here and there in the new. I guess you are United States yet, but in the new world needed to get worse, back to england- occasionally and say things like quit bagginess her hey since more tea and crumpets and so the first Fischer Postal Service, established in sixteen thirty nine Richard. Banks Tavern in Boston was the official,

male drop for overseas, their massachuset yet, and that was the to go if you under males up yet- and I couldn't find what happened or where went on the other side of the Atlantic, primarily not up. I would imagine that I have just pointed out. Poverty said haze, Ernie Male Theo, eternal control of five hundred miles back to your village. So that was a step. One step too was about forty some odd years later, sixty three William Penn establish very famous person. Obviously the first official post office in PEN Savena gives them after an hour. The side note here in the south private messages were descent between plantations, so they would probably just give it to us. I haven T carry this over to that. Guy and then flash mortal a bit more stay. Ninety one! Crown gave to a Thomas Neil, a twenty one,

your grant yet for the postal service in the United States and he paid like seven seven shillings a year Nuthin right, he still do in death, did here with a monopoly, so the poster This has always been kind of tricky to call money from interesting, so that can new tools. Seventeen, seventy four, and a lot of big stuff. Happening around that time. Ok, we don't like you anymore in England, controlling us over here and yet axing us so we're gonna start and establish our own, constitute post office for for any male going from anyone basically enter colonial male, yeah yeah averaged was very cutting edge of the shore. They actually do. You know that when the British were carrying out the postal service on behalf of the colonies in the colonies there,

a guy named Benjamin Franklin who was appointed the postmaster Philadelphia and he actually killed it as postmaster horsey. Did he like totally improve the roads? He said like we're, gonna start working like twenty four hours a day we have like lots of shifts, we're going put up milestones like the the Postal Service helped improve the can goodness of the colonies, thanks to him, so in the Continental Congress it hey, we want our own postal service. Ben Franklin became the first postmaster Jim sure. And, of course, he ran it like a tight ship and he's Do I get a feeling if we could like right? erect him and bring him out today, he could fix What's going on in this country, yet need say something pithy and ask for a glass of sherry, exactly This is to me when you get super interesting, was in the nineteenth century, when what expansion happen. Forty gold rush, all of a sudden we needed to get stuff from the east. To San Francisco at say what

so, because possible. It's crazy as quick as possible was to go down New York around Florida Cartesian. Yes, yes, I, like a steamship, yet through the Caribbean and then across, like Panama and then up the pacific side to qualify, that was the fastest way to get me out for a while. Yet how, on our behalf, four weeks to send a letter from the east coast of the West Coast, and that's you know, the best case scenario: Ryan, NATO, that's what that's? How the? U S? The east coast, Katy with the West Coast for a while until some stage coach routes routes were, were set. But there is a southerner out and there is a central rat yet and the southern route. You can supposedly use a year round jerk as this lovely down here, but then the central rather was faster, but they said you can't use that you around their storms yeah so kill me man. The way these to name companies back then was so like it makes perfect sense,

you basically to said what you did like one civic male steamship company said we're. Gonna, carry your mail to the Pacific by steam ship and then the overland male company well we're gonna. Do it overland, it's hell, that's what we're a gull accompany here. So they got the contract. Overly male company along the southern rout, took about twenty five days in there My favorite one of my favor parts of american history was born, the Downy Express yet, and it's just so amazing, like the other idea that they had to do this. It was a different company, those competing they wanted to get contract away from the overly company right, the secrecy and p p, and they said you know what we know that such a route shorter working to prove that we can use it. You around awareness, set up something that it's just gonna blow this twenty five day thing out of the water and they said the pony express yeah and they had stations. What every ten twenty miles and a rider would ride from Saint Joseph Missouri to Sacramento

or be part of a line of ride while the others, the key they go about a hundred miles in they change horses every like ten or fifteen miles she s, so the same rider would change horses cause they. They rode the average ten miles an hour which then sound fast but a factor and like the Sierra Nevada, is where they're just crawling up these mountains. So these dudes were riding hard, and on flat ground, if there averaging ten miles an hour right here and there going twenty four hours a day in two thousand miles ten miles an hour. That's what, twenty hours near that's no that's two hundred hours, so it is less than ten days, so that that cut their overland companies rate by a hundred fifty percent, yeah the there was always one set of writers going EAST one set gone west yeah. I think when you, when you were really

by another rider yeah! You hang on it that station and animal welfare and the other for some mighty come the other way and then relieve them. Yet they were paid really well at the time. Twenty five bucks a week which the time unskilled labour is made about a dollar week, so. And that did you read the first add ever put in no wanted young skinny. Why fellows not over eighteen must be expert writers willing to risk death daily orphans preferred and that's Maybe legend, but supposedly that's what it says. Apparently they were young little light live, skinny, kids, because you know you want some big dude like me upon a horse the horse, if you like, I don't want to I d worthy, so they were like these young boys, like, I think, the youngest ones like fourteen our supposedly Buffalo Bill he was a rider, although people had to say that now area near or his is the stuff

while his by far and away the most famous famous pony, express writer, if in fact he did get, but I'm anyway. So so think about the amount of infrastructure built up along this central rout too. Have a station. Every ten or twenty miles you ve got all these ploys going, they proved it. They proved that the centre that could be used. Ie around and so they got the contract and right now the overly company got a contract to use it these same route that was already established and the pony expresses like you have to be kidding me: and so the EU, the US government, said now, you guys do half and then let the let everyone company do, the other half yeah and they were mad for about a year and a half and really angry and then the telegraph, was completed now everyone's like a welcome packets, I guess, we're all out of business now. Yet there was a pony. Expresses solar cells Fargo in basically shut down ya, think American Express ended up, branching out of wealth, go to your like these are old

companies. They have these modern banks and credit card companies is interesting. How far they go back but about that man, even as far back as the mid Nineteenth century new technology, putting mail delivery out to pasture near the mail delivery would evolve, unlike figure out a comeback. That's critical foreshadowing, if is so This is a big jump forward to the midnight teen sixties. Yeah Alot happened between and it didn't. Actually we started. Go move further for their under the suburbs. There is a huge population boom in the in the Post war era and businesses story to realise the value of two act mailing and all these facts put together meant that the postal, This was totally overwhelmed, yeah plainly, because it became such a big deal. Everyone right and letters and they were using the same old hand

I guess hen, delivery methods, sorting methods, yeah. I thought it was. They were automated at all and they needed to be right, and so there is a postal reform that that was undertaken. Yeah, and this was in nineteen. Seventy wine, the Post office department. And at an even though this was a shortly after I was born, we weren't the United States postal Service until nineteen. Seventy one now is when we actually became the usb ass. It became independent establishment was no longer part of the cabinet of the federal right but was part of the executive branch and got them nobly basically to deliver mail, yeah. Now it was supposedly just a company and they and they re up the mandate from I think so and he ninety two that said you

The postal service is one of the most essential services of the federal government. Here no person is cut off in this country. None shall not get deliver exactly here. Everyone's going to have a mail box in everyone's going to get mail to that mailbox every day, because we need to help keep intellectual freedom going in in ideas in business in commerce going all the time in the postal services, this federal agency that carries that up and up I'm sure that put a financial burden on them when people started building in these, like especially people when they started building in these room area. Then, all of a sudden, he had to add that to your route Well, there's lay at sixty miles up the mountain and that's the only our stairs. There's a guy who services the Grand Canyon there's a group of Indians at live at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. He has a donkey train that goes on there every day with the male really yeah. Minutes part of its a federal mandate, you have to be able to get male. Everyone has an a mail. Is I don't you guys? You spoke signals they do

fact that actually run article inspections yeah. I was going to say we should podcast on it. But it's it's like super basic. Is there really would be like a five minute podcast or we will have to figure out some other way to use it's a great except interesting, so do we come, going postal, now's, sorted thrown in the middle of this middle really was, is talking about how packages delivered and all of a sudden it says, and then people started going each other in eighty six yeah which is actually the post office The dubious distinction of kicking off the workplace shooting trend in the United States was the first one. As far as I could tell well it's a nineteen eighty six Edmund Oklahoma, Edric Henry a Cheryl killed fourteen coworkers nineteen anyone another one happened include a supervisor getting killed with a samurai sword November. Nineteen. Ninety one item

Mcilveen, shot and killed for co workers. When did five others, shot himself and then- one, ninety three and then in two thousand three, two more insight. Of postal workers. Killing fellow postal workers is like between eighty six and ninety seven forty people died at postal Post offices from postal ramp and gave birth to the term going postal, which is used as a vernacular fur like, despite losing it ugly, and if you are interested in that at all, there is a really good documentary. I think it's a Netflix streaming right now called murdered by proxy area in its all about the postal shootings we like, where they came from, there's a lot of scrutiny at like that of the management techniques of people post offices, there's gotta, be something to it. I mean how you, if you watch that, like it, was regularly how many other industries had that many office sittings here, retail, very

the homicide rate, is three times higher in retail than it is at the post office that you don't like going retail. That just means you're going shopping, but it's like drinking the Kool aid. They really drink, flavor Aiden's right, Kool aid, someone with that distinction Ah, you are I so those gone who is not here I mean we had dimension it, but I want to dwell on, but it was weird in this article. The way it went cigarette in the middle of this came up out of nowhere zip codes, this chemical, zip AIDS were introduced in nineteen. Sixty three officially put in place and mandatory and nineteen. Sixty seven because just so much male going on you headed categorize it more specifically right that was part of that the post office being swamp. This was the first step towards automation, was like a standardized causing, as is long will, they did have other ones, but it was like one. New York City or something like that in area, so This is just a nice little cocktail party factoid

rezoning prevent plan, I never knew till I read this. Did you know that before, but I I'd forgotten. Ok, so design improvement plan in its he data base its a five digit number represents location. Obviously, where you're trying to send someone and Now they have the zip code plus four in some areas of like, I guess, major urban areas have low more specificity, rightly Lily delivered to your like they put it on your stomach. If you behind, is it plus, for I think certain buildings even will have their own plus four, if it's a big enough building, great or get a lot of mail is a person that what after is as for four minutes, is that some high volume male receivers get in, unlike if it was cool male above to give the man said the fur Did their represent the state in Georgia? That's a three, It increases as you move west, and there are some states that share each digit. Gaelic too, is taken up by a lot of states.

There's the District of Columbia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Virginia West Virginia man all two's, only man if I live in one of those states, so then you got the second third digits those regions within the state The first three of those create was called the s. Code. The sectional centre facility. And then the fourth and fifth digits are even more specific. Basically just HANS down as you go left or right until you, ve got just courthouse by the state this section facility get this post office yet this neighborhood yeah and then this. Maybe this billing net is high volume. Male receiver named Josh Clark. That's right you. Ve got the zip code that allowed automation and little known fact as the years postal service.

Inches handle a ton of the. U S is male handles. Forty percent of all of the male in the world are really yeah, while so before the zip code. This was really difficult. It also went from fear mailing something from New York to San Francisco. It went through every distribution facility in country between New York and San Francisco before it got there. Yes now. Zip codes was about how what a letter does? Ok, then? This is all thanks to zip codes, soap, Our little love letter mail it to Emily, which is weird We live together be romance. That's actually is a great example, though, because you can male something from your mailbox be delivered back to you. I reckon I never done it that's the poor man mark, thou yeah right. I've heard about that is to male something new yourself into those holes are held,

It depends on the judge, probably quicker so, you put your mailbox postal carriers. Gonna pick it up, they can take it to the post office. They're gonna, put it on a truck and then take that from the post office to a processing plant where it We have a long awaited machines, dance and sorting shape and size yet would they sort everything out, make sure everything's facing the railway up right, yeah, and then the that they packages we'll package put on one one belt measures are put in another. The letter saying MRS Stick with the letter that Europe its it goes into. Slot, so it's facing upwards and upright for front words and upright, and then they put a little bar code on the back of the letter in I think ultraviolet ink. Yet well. First thing it does. Is it gets a postmark and cancellation lines? Basically, you can't use the stamp again. Yes,

and even try it be cheap. We ve seen the wide out checks we seen doctoring up. A stamp was is probably a federal offense. They probably is, and then so after that the barcodes printed on the back of a piecemeal and then there's an optical scanner that reads the address, which is pretty cool and if if there really really really accurate to yeah, but If your handwriting is terrible, they have a new system. Now, where the this conveyor belt takes a picture of it. Send emails, a picture, you a human being at a computer or who reads a wake us. What? I think you every two types it in and then it so it stays on the line. It doesn't have to come out any longer. That's that's pretty Lena technology, yeah and, so based on this, this address. Including the zip code, it Prince, of bar code at the bottom. If you look at a letter any letter you get has a little code on. Yet it's a that's with red. That's right! That's the thing the back is invisible. I think right yeah this for

this. To show off. We have invisible link Their processing machines, then read those barcodes and then sort them in their little bends. Accordingly code and it's just base replacing everything. What will eventually be a trade will be delivered back. You, a post office right or sorting facility, or does it go straight to a post office again, to now another processing plant. Right. So imagine each processing plant like regional, like as a bunch of male coming in on rocks that sorts and then sends out and then based on its zip code that it serves it. It gets a bunch of that's from other distant facilities that right without our already according to visit, could so they say it's getting a flat, of mail by zip code, yet it also sorts through those that right and it actually sorts him into

individual carriers route in order. And that's what's delivered to the post office, so it arrives at the Post office ready to go on the truck yes and That doesn't mean that the postal workers doesn't have much to do. They all have agar they'll have like circulars magazines, Yoke male, they have to go through and put it for every address, all that crap had in the world at my recycling men. Basically, although the coop I remember a junk mail episode from years. New had got so my autograph from people like no, no, no, you can't you ready junk mail height. That's acquainting, keep innocent business; in others,

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so If you're gonna addressed a letter, there are a few guidelines. You know you put your address legibly in the front, get it a little return address in the upper left corner, yet on the front and put it on the back up. Her left corner there and dont use pier It's in commerce like p o box- is not p period o period Babo. That is a matter apparently as for greater efficiency. In reading your letter, maybe because I always put Atlanta Comma G period- I do too and they still get there, but don't you wonder if they get there like earlier? Maybe so it is supposedly you need to be well to read the address at arm's length, so don't write, tiny and don't write so big They can't do other things to the envelope like scan and stamp, and things like that. And then you know, you gotta put your return address, because if something happens, you want to come back to you, although

Do that much anymore. Los Angeles, but like Atlanta, Georgia, really I am for your return address on it now, but I rarely male things in a lot of times when I do it's for works all this put my land, Georgia has two forks or something oh gadgets and is not the kind of thing that if it doesn't come back to me, I would care I got have had some precious thing. I would put a return address, feeling that you're gonna get some email from postal carriers that are like. I hate people rightly because whether you care, if it comes back to you and I am sure they have to get it back to you, a lot of type, a delivery services. We surfaces services, we won't go over here, but I did want to say that media mail is a great little trick, not a trick but a great tool if your mailing things like books, doored, dvds, because its super cheap yeah, but it takes a while it's part of that mandate from one thousand seven hundred and ninety two that they want to keep the intellectual juice of America flowing through the postal service. So things like that, like creative stuff for books, or course

and pleasure, and I think that's how. And if you ve ever ordered a book on Amazon for like two cents go and how can they celebrate forty cents because they charge you like for ninety five for shipping and they pro pay like eight cents. What with media male that's the greatest of the twenty first century, not really mean they're, making their money via shipping instead of the book itself, but of publishers. Like it, of course, because they want to sell their books new yeah enough for since on Amazon In fifty three, which they shot full of mail from Service has a monopoly on delivering mail, but not on delivering package's right here. Because they're kind of in competitive business against, like you, p S and FED Ex Ante H, and all those guys, those guys gonna hidden in in invested in infrastructure of say, like air delivery area, transportation of mail and the Eu Postal service has tried that before like this,

guided missiles. Nineteen fifty three receive shot full mail from a submarine to naval station in Florida? But, as is too expensive right, so the postal service said: hey you PS, Hey Fedex, you guys have a bunch of planes. We are putting our male on it and they said sure a few billion dollars a year and the postal service a great but at the, in time they kind of they. Stepped forward into the twenty first century. By doing so, and the postal service having access to everyone's mailbox is often tat by you. Pierre Fedex deliver what's called in the business, the last mile, yeah, so a lot of I'm too, especially if you're a rural person. If you get from Amazon, and it was ship by you P S, but eventually it made its way into your postal carriers. Now, it is being delivered by the posters, the others way more mixing of of pack

mailing than you would think, sounds like a Swinger Party or something pretty much. And part of that deal in two thousand one with that acts was hey, Fedex Can we put our boxes it? Europe post offices and they said, were four hundred twenty six million dollars and they said you know he hit her out on your plane. They said cheer for six point three billion over seven years, but its inner seems a good agreement and they did the same with GPS and we scratch our back. You scratch yours your bag will scratch. Yours then works, but it discussion on back and other workers harder each Agatha. So if the realised that the postal service needs a few billion extra dollars, you say why just up the postal rates, while the federal government keeps its thumb, they want to make sure that anybody who

needs to mail. A letter can do so without great expense. Yeah, it's a big deal. Change the postal right like it is, more than you think. There's a layman. Like me, a dispute carries out a few cents per square with the prompt. Yes just print. This forever stamps genius idea to go back and reprinted bunch with the amount, great idea or The one cent member embargo, when Thou way get the one cent, yet with the ducks the edge is like everyone needs the once it. Whenever there is the rates, yeah he's a good, she hit didn't think about now so. But yes, there is a very long. Protracted difficult process of raising the postal rates is not a very easy thing now and it involves a ton of bureaucracy. Should we get it better disbelieve at that, it's up to me we should leave it at that. Ok, so if you are going to mean something from your house, you need your little mailbox and I just installed mine in what seemed like a sensible manner. I didn't realize that there their actual rules, in fact,

supposed to contact the Post office before installing your mail box, which I had no idea, to make sure it's like the correct placement and heighten so like the the office person or the male carried and had to get out of the truck. Oh they'll filled burned down What? If it's not the specification, so you want to contact the post of I didn't, but I guess it is lucked out because they say generally forty one forty five inches from the road surface to the end, I deplore the mailbox or point of entry and then back, sixty eight inches from the front face of the curb or road edge to them. Bucks door right. I guess I just got lucky them, because I get my mail with. Any burning down of you now or without a post office spots Box, which we talked about they been around for a couple hundred years and that if you want to have you ok to your long box in a post office and get your mail there You can certainly do that. Its handy, If you're starting out of business- and you want to make people think that you're,

working out of your house you can. The post office and say look. I have a p o box, which means I'm working under my bedroom. It's a code, are you getting guns in the male? Is our peoples I'm sure, there's a lot of people who try to get guns in the mail and their p, o box is sure. Ok or if you want. Tend to move around a lot in the same town any I worry about changing your mail, enforcing your mail girl, just getting a box. So those are some reasons even took feature. The post office, if it's around after October, two thousand third year. What is the future of the post of well there's a lot of stuff coming down the pike The cancellation aside, email this There really go and hard after package delivery services. Now what trying to oh? It's like the flat rates and civilians is really like courting businesses to say, hey, consider us instead of view p S or Fedex rent,

and especially with prescription medicines you're, because we have an aging population is going to do nothing but increase in size. So you gonna need more prescriptions through the may also help us get into that yeah and you can get stuff like that certified and ensured signature, delivery, approved and stuff like that. Yet its helpful part of the post offices pledges that that you, the your blood carrier won't take your medication before delivering it. Hey you up for some right but there is also a line of clothing coming out postal, sir. This line of clothing coming out shut up, I'm not in the old rain heater snow, This. We almost didn't mention this so the postal services, creed right sure, either rain nor snow nor sleep, Sleep Helen. In or sleet nor Snow Nora. Neither snow nor rain, nor heat nor gloom of night stays. These carriers from the swift completion of there were appointed rounds,

and it's actually not the post offices. Official motto: they don't have one, but it's been linked to them in it. Actually and adaptation of something from Heroditus. The greek historian, who was making a comment about how the Persians, even during their war and like five hundred BC, they were one the first ones to establish a real postal service and even during war, the postal service didn't stop. There were still Documents being delivered in Heroditus was coming commenting on the hand that, through that came from it, should include like we're sublime. Did originally like. That's irritation. It wasn't a loss of wine, but it was something like he had some sort of sicknesses. Volunteer right there putting the male before themselves. The show must go on back. So. There is a lot of clothing called the Rayner heater snow and their numb there also talking about creating a federal email, addresses that you get at birth. Just like you have a

physical address. You would also have an email address, but your email address is attached to you rather than the physical location. You live out and if you say needy, correspond with iris or Social Security administration. Something like that. You would send like this very secure email through this Postal Services, Porto everything as he gets use like gmail or Yahoo, herb whatever right for every day stuff, but this is like the big stuff, the really important step The postal service would also offer like a digital, lock box for thee like like a will, or you medical records or something like that year at an end, listen is every piracy purse, in the country now says in a way I wanna Federal, email The main aim here that I have the same things through your work

so the number, the beast, obviously here that I would want that either I'm not a bit conspiracy. Oh it's not you that you have to send it to. That. Is that if you send it through that, if somebody hijacks IDA reads it gonna be in a lot more trouble federally speaking than they would be, if, like they read your gmail yet because in it illegal to open like a federal offense to get someone exactly and that's what this there's? This guy runs a think tank for the postal services whose, like it's not just about me, documents. It's about protecting connecting this of the United States, an american sir? How do we do that in a digital world? Is thinking of others, so, even the least bit interested by this episode that we just recorded theirs. Esquire article, called at peace. Didn't that is an esquire. Do it's called? Do we really want to live without the Post office and its by Jesse Liechtenstein, and it is really good near its a

a good overview of what is just kidding we need a here. She, I think kind of leaned toward we need it and the more you start no agreed about the more this weird kind of civic affection for the Post office developed Ray, Where am I don't want to get rid of the post office? You want the post office who doesn't want the post office kind of it kind of develops yeah. I used to You know, maybe it was a simpler day or maybe there people stuck with their roots longer, but I remember my post men growing up. Is the same guy for years, and we have done. We live in a neighbourhood, we lived on a street in the world with like six houses and so you know how to run out and check the mail and Wave Adam, and we would give him my gives a Christmas and that's all some and now I have no idea who my postal carriers, which is my fault, any, did just go out there. I think you do else the postal service, is responsible for the largest food dry.

In the United States every year area yeah. You know that for driveway, like you just put, I can't food in Europe come in mailboxes in picks it you can do that yeah. I've never had a that hasn't publicized, but it like at least around here. I guess, but it's a huge true drive or at the very least postal carriers are taken in Kansas Ravioli for dinner, is delicious. I love him. Yes, it don't just put cans of food in your mailbox chicken do when that is bizarre haven. That's gotta be the worst day of the year for letter, carry hammock gotcha. Can you imagine tat a lot of weight? Be anything else. No respect your post postal carrier, Nobody gonna meet their postal care. I want to my hug, actually don't do that. Lay my macy or something, but given the way there

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Ok now it's listener, Josh's told us fan who thought we were wrong and did little research, and we may not be wrong Africa as nice, as we had a bunch of filmmakers right in when we talked about the subliminal messages being inserted into oh yeah movies and nineteen fifties by James Victory, because we said it's one, three thousand of a second or something and a bunch of you'll make yours. When we joined twin forefront per second swimming switch out, one frame, it would only be went when there's no way, there's no way and where'd you get this number which gives number. I went back and looked out. I mean I see this number in various places, but So we got this email from Brian Henry the disputed this, and then he wrote back with this. Guy's looks like it

spoken too soon. I was assuming that victory was just changing the film itself, which result in the messages showing much slower in it, the maximum one. Twenty. Fourth, the second. I did some research and apparently he use something called a ever heard this before a touches. Stethoscope catcher still petition touches the scope, I think The chief disco to protect the messages on the screen, not the movie projector. He said so this way he would have a lot more control over the speed of the messages and so to all the filmmakers out there who wrote in and challenged us whom I wrote back to a few of those like teeth on an mm like I'm looking for it, In summary, I kinda funny about by researchers apparently put that near to teach us to go up in smoke. It knows what I say here and that is from Brain Henry Thinking, brain

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