Thank God For Snail Mail

Observation: It's quite funny, but true if you think about it, that snail mail is now the best new way to ensure your communications stay private ... well, unless you're in prison. LOL.

With government now gathering all your emails, your tweets, your instagram photos, invading your Dropboxes, and snooping through all your Facebook messages & posts, who would have thought the first line of defense of our privacy would be underpaid & overworked Postal workers? At least they do have blues uniforms and a Postmaster General, which seems appropriate for the defenders of the last bastion of the freedom to communicate privately in America.  Through rain, wind, sleet & snow, the Post Office always delivers privacy. Except on Saturdays. Or Sundays. Not enough money in the budget to allow Americans the luxury of private communications on the weekends.  But not to worry, all the corporate headquarters are closed on weekends! They'll be just fine, they've got UPS.

It's all good, considering we still have the legendary postal army to protect our privacy & deliver our letters in style, in a sort of timely fasion, in bermuda shorts.  If we have secrets we need to share, we can always resort to snail mail.  Coolio!  Because we all know that government can't open our mail without a warrant.  Well, hopefully, that's still the law.  And as you have probably experienced, postal workers can be vicious about enforcing postal rules, at least while they still have a budget. Maybe we should require postal workers to carry guns, at least in the Red states (and Blue states that have not passed gun reform yet), to defend our freedom to dump our boyfriends insensitively or tell our boss to shove it by certified letter.  After all, what could possibly go wrong?  It's not like any of our fearless army of bermuda short wearing post office workers has ever "gone postal."  Oh, wait.  

And it's not like the FBI has ever opened a letter suspected of containing ricin.  On Mars.  Yet.

And what letter doesn't contain ricin these days?  According to the FBI.  In secret courts.

Who would have predicted that snail mail would be our last bastion of communication privacy?  Is it possible for government to resist the temptation?  Is it possible the Post Office won't be around much longer?  Is it possible that Americans just don't care enough to get off the couch?  We shall see.

The Middle Class

"It's interesting that most corporate executives no longer consider fairness as a concept that applies to both management and workers. If it's good for the corporation & it's executives, then screw the workers. This one attitude, more than any other, has led to the complete destruction of the middle class." -BeTh isBell


The possibilities for fairness are endless, the probabilities, not so much.

The Real Problem

Maybe the growing gaps between voters and Congress, workers and wall street executives, between the top 1% and the bottom 90%, are really more of a basic communication problem. We talk, they don't listen.  They just keep acting in their self-interest without regard to the consequences for the rest of us, our meager plights are of little interest. ... 
Gee, that sure is a beautiful yacht!  

And that's how it happens.


Is it possible to focus on real problems & talk about their solutions with ALL our interests in mind?  Is it possible for any of us to listen to each other, to the concerns of another human, without fear or self interest?  Is it possible for those that could change lives to do so?



This is my first of many blogs here on Blog O' Possibilities.  So Welcome!  
Hope you stick around. :),

BeTh