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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Products made crappy for you
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 13:42:15 -0400
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On Tue, 14 May 2024 11:10:20 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>On 5/14/2024 10:25 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>> On 5/14/2024 6:13 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:
>>>
>>> Even as postie with all the vans, we didn’t have a 
>>> dedicated mechanic but a
>>> mobile one who’d come and service/repair them.
>>>
>>> Due to its location, never had bikes as is common in the 
>>> Welsh Valleys ie
>>> steep hills/roads.
>> 
>> For about five years, I had a newspaper route which I 
>> delivered by bike.
>> 
>> Some years later, I had a summer job as a substitute 
>> mailman, trudging the city while lugging a heavy sack of mail.
>> 
>> It occurred to me that I could put my paper carrier 
>> experience to use and deliver the mail far faster by bike. 
>> But nope, that wasn't allowed.
>> 
>
>+1
>It's in the very nature of bureaucracies and well described 
>by Hayek.  Oh by the way, nearly any question about the 
>mails may be 'proved' either way by citing different 
>sections of the DMM!


The U.S. government is not a quality employer.