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thanks for the insight, Newman

Begs the question, why is all that police oversight necessary.

As an interesting aside I have never seen a non governmental agency have a "Office of the Inspector General".

Anyone know of a private/public company that uses that title? Everyone I am familiar with has internal and external auditors that look for fraud, waste and abuse.

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All that LE oversight is warranted because we have custody of small things some of high value, like for example, mass mailings of credit cards. Enforces sanctity of the mail. Thought you'd be happy about that. As far as internal auditors go, we have those too. About external auditors, let's look at Bernie Madoff's external auditors--what a sterling job they did! Most civilian companies call in Kroll or somebody similar, or McKinsey and Company or somebody similar--we do all our forensics and management scrutiny internally. And besides, it doesn't matter whether you call it OIG or whatever, it's the effectiveness of the job that counts

<signed> Your QUANGOriffic Brother JazzboCR
PS--I don't know of any other Fed LE (Postal Inspectors) that has to first serve as a worker in the Agency. Plus they are schizophrenic in their duties--Consumer Protection AND catching criminals inside the USPS. We are sui generis in so many ways!>>JB

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Was a simple question but you danced around it. Lets get real here. You are, by your own admission, "a postie". Great.

This thread would have died long ago if you just stopped trying to defend the USPS.

Give it up,

Back to you David

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Why on Earth would I stop defending an institution that has given me, an essentially unskilled worker, entree to the middle-income ranks? They've taken care of me and given me direction; I've given them faithful service and loyalty...which includes explaining the institution and the 700,000 members of it against all attacks foreign and domestic.
If the disparagement stops, the defense ceases. Can't say it any plainer than that. And hey, the other posties in CRT are doubtless having great fun with this; everybody else is learning gobs about a great American institution and I always enjoy a challenge. Win-win all around. Now, admit it --you're having fun with this too, aren't you?

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As the original poster of the joke, I did not think it was THAT funny. But you two have taken a Smack joke post and made it a learning experience, which is more that we can say about any threads around here. Kudos to you both.

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Brother JOsie--I would never in my wildest dreams/ delusional fantasies claim to speak for Brother Irish Drifter, but I thank you. Funny how thread hijacking sometimes makes for a good and interesting thread--as long as nobody gets personal--stay calm and nobody gets hurt.

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"Amen, brother"-ED

If it wasn't fun I would not have continued posting in this thread. Alays enjoyable tweaking the establishment.

Glad to hear you found it enjoyable because I was a bit concerned when you posted this:

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I would have never guessed in a million years a discussion of the post office and it's relationship to the US government could go on for 2 pages on CRT!

Berk....

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and conducted in the fashion of gentlemen with no flaming.

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Brother ID put it perfectly. And for me I was approaching testiness. I just thought it over, petted the cat and the bad stuff went away. A last thought on Inspectors General, their importance and what can happen when they fail:
www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/opinion/27fri2.html

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Sounds like the future AIG!!!!

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The U.S. Postal Service is probably the best postal service in the world given the large volume of "stuff" it handles. Too, although the price of a postage stamp continues to rise in the USA, when compared to the rest of the Western world, it's a bargain.

As well, the postal service handles parcels no one else will and has seen it's bread and butter "first class mail" service deteriorate markedly due to electronic mail. Now, I don't like the idea one bit of charging to send emails (and that's been on the table for quite some time....and I'll fight that tooth and nail with faxes and emails (!)....), but still all things considered, the USA's postal service typically works pretty darn well. Just my 2¢

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- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 16

I told the joke to my mailman.....
His responce?
That is the kind of joke that makes us go off
NH

Hope he doesn't mean "going postal" considering what that term has come to mean.

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