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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Products made crappy for you
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 11:10:20 -0500
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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!
-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971