rumors of Trystero abound

[Michael Bailey]

 Mark Kohut wrote:
> Perhaps y'all want what I want: socialized, subsidized mail delivery...
>

I was going to say something along those lines, too.

Seems that back in 1970, Nixon reorganized (well, not he personally -
like Terry Pratchett wrote in one of his brilliant excursions, "[the
king] had absolutely nothing to do with the building of the castle,
which is why they named it after him") the Post and it changed from
what you said, to a quasi-business that is supposed to show a profit.

Personally, I think it was cooler the old way, but that did have its
problems too, which the proponents of the Procrustean free market
solution that is swirling around the old beachheads of public service
have pointed out.  Their school will also someday be superseded, and
it will be looked back on nostalgically too, I confidently predict.


> Back when scarfing up some henry Adams, I read the beginning of his history of
> America--only the beginning..can you blame me?----and learned that in 1800 there
> were seven mail deliveries a day in big cities like New York and Philly.....
>
> 7!............
>
> Once again, imputing almost everything to TRP's genius, I have wondered if such
> a fact
> learned from Adams may have led him to think about the nation-uniting post
> office meanings
> and therefore a counter delivery system.......................
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Cc: kelber at mindspring.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Tue, June 7, 2011 3:24:01 PM
> Subject: Re: rumors of Trystero abound
>
> I dunno, David, that would be pretty smart. Might be beyond us.
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:05 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Two birds, one stone:  Raise the cost of junk mail postage.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> I'm with Laura on this one. So rare is there anything worth looking at in the
>>>mail, I rarely bother looking. USPS would be better streamlining the junk mail
>>>business directly to local recycling centers. Or better yet, just becoming a
>>>recycling center to finance its occasional personal mail delivery. Or just, as
>>>Laura sez, leave the mail to Trystero.
>>>
>>
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> --
> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
> creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
> trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
> of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
> than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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