I ordered a couple of things through Amazon for Christmas, and hell, I'm just grateful that this time they didn't come in boxes that were three times too large and filled with styrofoam. Maybe they're learning.
after Amazon workers came together to demand better behavior, the company co-founded a group called "Climate Pledge" and made some firm commitments to reducing its impact on warming, like ordering 100,000 electric delivery vehicles -- from a manufacturer Amazon owns a part of, but hey, clean is clean.
Is this "Climate Pledge" gonna turn out to be just like original Pledge? Still sprayed everywhere despite being toxic, but hey! Isn't it lemony fresh?
Wow, I'm not even sure the problem there isn't with USPS.
USPS "We will boost your salary if you sell more stamps!" Local Postmaster: "I have a relative that runs a company that does a lot of mailing and shipping, how about I use my contacts with that company to sell a lot of stamps?" USPS: "Scallywag! You are arrested, sirrah!"
I mean, seriously, how is this not exactly what USPS intended?
AFAICT, the "wrong" in what you've written would probably be the kickbacks. But if you didn't kick back cash and just bought your family member gifts because you're so happy and grateful that they helped increase your salary...? The wrong here is the policy, not the postmaster.
Christ. What really got me was the State Department urging Americans to get out of Iraq (which I read in WaPo this morning), but also telling them not to come to the Embassy or offering alternate solutions. Fuck.
It turned out to be an egregious scam from what I remember, but it was 35 years ago. It was the biggest story in the valley, even bigger than the guy who was breaking into houses and stealing and selling taxidermy trophy animals. The cops caught him in the act, he either fired on the cops or they fired and thought it was the perp, but in any case he drank rat poison and died. And the Postmaster getting arrested was a bigger deal.
I ordered a couple of things through Amazon for Christmas, and hell, I'm just grateful that this time they didn't come in boxes that were three times too large and filled with styrofoam. Maybe they're learning.
What do you expect from the company that happily flattened Diapers.com?
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Well, crap. If only I could find some other way to get a pair of shoelaces by Monday…
after Amazon workers came together to demand better behavior, the company co-founded a group called "Climate Pledge" and made some firm commitments to reducing its impact on warming, like ordering 100,000 electric delivery vehicles -- from a manufacturer Amazon owns a part of, but hey, clean is clean.
Is this "Climate Pledge" gonna turn out to be just like original Pledge? Still sprayed everywhere despite being toxic, but hey! Isn't it lemony fresh?
Wow, I'm not even sure the problem there isn't with USPS.
USPS "We will boost your salary if you sell more stamps!" Local Postmaster: "I have a relative that runs a company that does a lot of mailing and shipping, how about I use my contacts with that company to sell a lot of stamps?" USPS: "Scallywag! You are arrested, sirrah!"
I mean, seriously, how is this not exactly what USPS intended?
AFAICT, the "wrong" in what you've written would probably be the kickbacks. But if you didn't kick back cash and just bought your family member gifts because you're so happy and grateful that they helped increase your salary...? The wrong here is the policy, not the postmaster.
Chris Murphy was right on NPR this morning: our Iran "policy" is all tactics, no strategy.
Ooooh, I like that idea.
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Yes, that's the idea. How they think they can force the hand of God is an arrogance I can't fathom, but yes, that's the plan.
Why are the new, improved Thirty Helens working at Amazon anyway? /s/
Christ. What really got me was the State Department urging Americans to get out of Iraq (which I read in WaPo this morning), but also telling them not to come to the Embassy or offering alternate solutions. Fuck.
I'm in favor of the Rapture if it rids the earth of Dolt 45 & his sycophants.
How else are defense contractors, who are yuuuuge political donors, supposed to grow their businesses and keep investors happy?
It turned out to be an egregious scam from what I remember, but it was 35 years ago. It was the biggest story in the valley, even bigger than the guy who was breaking into houses and stealing and selling taxidermy trophy animals. The cops caught him in the act, he either fired on the cops or they fired and thought it was the perp, but in any case he drank rat poison and died. And the Postmaster getting arrested was a bigger deal.