Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Have you LOVED your US Postal Service lately?
It's such a lovely thing that the much maligned, under-utilized and mistreated US Postal Service has printed up umpteen hundred thousand "Forever stamps" with the word LOVE highlighted within a very fancy-schmancy design. Just today, I sent my "love" to Amnesty International, while at the same time explaining to them that when I joined the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) I did so, in my own mind, ONLY joining the ACLU. Regrettably, I can't afford to join EVERY worthwhile political advocacy organization that has been soliciting my contributions, very interestingly, since the very same month I joined the ACLU. (The ACLU sells its mailing list of potential "soft touches" like me to a variety of other outfits.)
If I were RICH, no doubt I'd also be a member of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Sierra Club, Amnesty, The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, Nukewatch, We Are Wisconsin, Greenpeace, The YMCA, Jews For The Preservation of Firearms and the Women's Temperance League, LOL. (Is that last one still around?) Anyway, I'm torn between having the ACLU finally remove my name from their mailing list and remaining on it. If I'm removed, the US Postal Service will lose just a little (every little bit counts) more desperately-needed revenue. On the other hand, if I stay on the mailing list, The Sierra Club and probably even Amnesty International (there's nothing more oblivious that a bureaucracy, ANY bureaucracy) will keep wasting postage on poor, low-income Dan. If you were me, and you even gave two shites, what would YOU do?
Anyway, it's also LOVABLE that I'm able to, once again, send my LOVE to a friend who lives in a tiny cabin on Kauai, Hawai'i, seven miles from the nearest internet cafe', or post office box for that matter. The LOVING stamp she is about to receive is more sincerely a token of my LOVE, if truth be told, than the one I just sent to Amnesty.
P.S: Deliver a little LOVE to your local Post Office, before it's too late!
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