Speaker Hastert offers logistics advice
Well I guess this raises the ante a bit, no? Speaker Dennis Hastert has decided to get involved in the ‘controversy’ surrounding the Rockford mail processing plant. A local TV station reports that Hastert has co-authored, with Rockford Rep. Don Manzullo a letter to the Postmaster General informing him that consolidating Rockford into Palatine would:
”‘… tax the extremely busy Palatine office and impair Rockford`s efficiency by jeopardizing the one-day turnaround service for local first class mail that residents in the 610 and 611 zip codes currently enjoy.’ The letter goes on to say that Palatine processes four times more mail than Rockford, and adding to this volume would further slow down delivery time.”
Hastert’s expertise in logistics may come as a surprise, but hey- if Bill Frist can diagnose brain damage by watching videotapes, mail processing should be a piece of cake.
It’s easy to point out the stupidity of moving mail processing 50 or a hundred miles down the road. It’s just ridiculous!
I mean really- this kind of thing wouldn’t happen if the Postal Service was a competitive business rather than a bloated monopoly, right?
Well, I don’t know about that. I see a milk tanker go by my house most mornings, carrying milk from the dairy farm up the road. I don’t know where it goes from here, but based on the “Cabot Creamery” logo, I’d bet Vermont. So when I stop by my local supermarket and pick up a bar of Cabot cheddar, there’s a good chance that at least some of it originated half a mile away, and then made a two or three hundred mile trip before coming to rest in my fridge.
Talk about ridiculous! That dairy farm should be making its own cheese, not unnecesarily taxing that overworked cheese factory in Vermont!
It’s enough to make you want to write a letter to Cabot demanding to know why they condone this waste of cheesebuyers money! Better yet, FedEx it to them, because then you know they’ll get it right away.
By way of Memphis, TN.
