[meteorite-list] What a surprise! (not)

Thu May 1 23:31:55 EDT 2008

"Actually cheaper to send overseas for less than one ounce packet, than 
to send to my next door neighbor.
The US government shows us how smart it is again."

Hi Mike, List,

You're mixing apples and oranges.  It should be cheaper, since when 
does reason have place in corrupt systems of any nation?  The US postal 
service is only doing half the work for intentionsl shipments.  They 
put it on a cargo flight from their hub and forget about it.

Meanwhile in the USA they have a monopoly on home delivery so they milk 
the cash cow, so why shouldn't you pay more?  It's a US federal crime 
for anyone to send regular mail through a private service for anyone to 
offer the service, and for anyone else delivering anything to open 
their sacred mailboxes - even though they are the homeowners' personal 
property and expense.  Only urgent mail is excluded from the monopoly; 
provided the competing service charges at least twice as much.  So next 
time you are pissed about fedex, ups, dhl, etc., keep in mind that they 
are more expensive because your government forces them to charge at 
least twice as by law much AND denies them participation in the 
economies of scale of the bulk of mailings.

Something to keep in mind next time you pat the USPS on the back for 
being the cheapest of shipping options.

Going postal,
Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
To: Jason Utas <meteoritekid at gmail.com>; Meteorite-list 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thu, 1 May 2008 2:52 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What a surprise! (not)

A 20 gram Henbury can be shipped to the UK for under
$2.00. The minumum for one ounce to the USA in a
bubble envelope is now $1.13, yet I can send the same
bubble envelope to the UK for $1.01.
Actually cheaper to send overseas for less than one
ounce packet, than to send to my next door neighbor.
The US government shows us how smart it is again.
Michael Farmer
--- Jason Utas <meteoritekid at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Herman, Dave, All,
> Regardless of whether or not he discounted shipping,
> he did still
> 'lift' a description that was written by someone
> else - without asking
> for the right to use it.
> This has been noted as an issue in the past, and it
> is clear that
> (although he did well to find a cheaper shipping
> service) wayner44
> still made a mistake in copying a description which
> he could easily
> have, at the very least, credited to the author.  I
> see no excuse for
> doing what he did - except for laziness.
> Furthermore, who on earth would pay more than a few
> dollars to ship a
> twenty gram bit of Henbury?  I think you're looking
> at this the wrong
> way; it should have cost only a few dollars to ship
> it in the first
> place.  He discounted it $9 from...what, exactly?
> Needless to say, it
> would have been ridiculous had he *not* changed the
> shipping cost.
> What he did was not a shining example of charity,
> ingenuity, or
> intelligence.  What he did was reasonable, nothing
> more - to say
> nothing of his plagiarism.
> Regards,
> Jason
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:01 AM,
> <Metorman46 at aol.com> wrote:
> > Hello Dave;
> >
> > Thanks for the positive,pleasant post about
> wayner44.He sure made your
> > day,i'll bet,and you sure made my day with such a
> positive post about someone  who
> > did good and we never would have known about it if
> you hadn't taken the time
> > to inform us.My hat is off to you.
> >
> > Best Regards;Herman Archer IMCA 2770.
> >
> >
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