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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Products made crappy for you Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 13:43:48 -0700 Lines: 54 Message-ID: <f9h74j5kgjolhgr24rm7o7qse9rk2v0aoh@4ax.com> References: <RF50O.96359$Y79f.80394@fx16.iad> <_380O.223142$oNU.191033@fx15.ams4> <ed90O.14082$yT%1.4242@fx33.iad> <v1sq4c$3djon$1@dont-email.me> <_uw0O.53411$A1d8.8776@fx47.iad> <JAw0O.172332$kMLb.23847@fx01.ams4> <TOw0O.20617$n_S2.12339@fx42.iad> <FPG0O.61451$lUmc.29301@fx08.ams4> <v1vvoo$81kg$3@dont-email.me> <v202db$8nmu$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net q2TRAJMee0ro4/cNAUrcjwDDv8lSK68QdKDoWcH27hCs3G9JTy Cancel-Lock: sha1:4AQJxBvobOmbQq58CbrtnZ7s/oc= sha256:E/DXhgLrEMVctwKKEiYdP+iYH3WYg4Cz1WcKuBgpybE= User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Bytes: 3198 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! DMM is the Domestic Mail Manual. Only 1,271 pages. <https://pe.usps.com/cpim/ftp/manuals/dmm300/full/mailingStandards.pdf> Incidentally, the term "mailman" was considered politically incorrect and has been replaced by the gender neutral "mail carrier". I suspect the word "carrier" is there to remind enterprising employees that they are expected to "know their place" and should only carry the mail. One of my father's friends would tell tales of Pre-WWII Poland as a Jewish letter carrier. Such letter carriers were not employed or paid by the national postal system. Instead, they were paid with donations by the recipient. The problem that the Jewish letter carriers solved was that the Christian post office employees could not read Hebrew or more commonly Yiddish addresses. There was also the ever present racial discrimination by the gentiles (non-Jews). <https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9789-letter-carriers-jewish> -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272 Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558