{"id":14390,"date":"2013-02-07T16:37:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T21:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2013\/02\/07\/14390.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:05:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:05:01","slug":"eight-days-a-week-or-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2013\/02\/07\/eight-days-a-week-or-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Days a Week (or five)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Look&#8230;I know that the actual demand for Saturday mail delivery is quite low, and the cost is quite high. Even for YHB, with better mail than most of you, I can very reasonably wait until Monday for my mail deliveries. Furthermore, having spent Saturdays at work for five years, it kinda stinks, and while it&#8217;s better than not having a job, still, it&#8217;s nicer to have the two weekend days off. And, as my old Dad would say, it&#8217;s good for The Jews.\n<p>So. Fine. The <a href=\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/national-releases\/2013\/pr13_019.htm\">new delivery schedule<\/a> is probably, sure, whatever. A good idea. The right thing to do.\n<p>But&#8212;and I can&#8217;t say this strongly enough&#8212;what the hell is wrong with us that we can&#8217;t deliver mail six days a week? I mean, Jesus fuck, people, we&#8217;re the richest country in the world, our goddamned streets are paved with fucking ruby-titanium-platinum zebra stripes, at least in the nice neighborhoods. Mrs. Carter and her husband bought their daughter a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamgoldberg.com\/diamond-jewelry\/luxury-items\/diamond-dolls-an-extravagant-take-on-the-barbie-tradition.html\">diamond-enfuckingcrusted Barbie<\/a>, and they won&#8217;t be even the big dicks at the Dolby Fucking Theatre on the twenty-fourth. Oh, and some stupid fuckers paid NBC two hundred and fifty fucking million fucking dollars to run their goddamned ads during the Super Bowl. That&#8217;s the ads&#8212;there was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrf.com\/modules.php?name=News&amp;op=viewlive&amp;sp_id=1300\"> eleven billion dollars in total consumer spending<\/a> connected to the sonofabitch, and <i>ten billion dollars<\/i> in gambling. Ten billion dollars in bets on one game! Because fuck yeah this is the United Fucking States of USfuckingA, and we could deliver mail twenty times a day, you&#8217;re fucking right we could.\n<p>Hell, three thousand fucking goddamned DOGS are going to Madison Square Garden <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westminsterkennelclub.org\/2013\/show\/info.html\">next week<\/a>, where their owners can buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipity3.com\/food.htm\">a thousand dollar ice-cream fucking sundae<\/a> to console them for not winning a little purple and gold motherfucking rosette.\n<p>We have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blossomcoffee.com\/2012\/09\/the-blossom-one-limited\/\">thousand dollar coffee pots<\/a>, because fuck yeah this is the United Fucking States of USfuckingA, and if we don&#8217;t have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandcuisine.com\/en\/press\/\">hundred-thousand-dollar stoves<\/a>, yet, maybe there&#8217;ll be one on the enormous fucking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superyachts.com\/news\/superyacht-venus-arrives-at-rybovich-yard-in-the-usa-2283.htm\">yacht<\/a> that just docked in West Palm Fucking Beach.\n<P>You know what? There&#8217;s a trend for fucking <I>alumni tours<\/i> that offer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/answer-sheet\/wp\/2013\/02\/06\/the-most-expensive-college-alumni-trips-ever-probably\/\">ultimate in service, comfort and convenience<\/a> for less than a hundred grand, not counting hookers and blow. Why? Because fuck yeah this is the United Fucking States of USfuckingA, that&#8217;s why.\n<p>So I don&#8217;t care if going to five-day delivery is actually sensible from a cost-benefit standpoint. It smells like giving up to me.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which some things just set Your Humble Blogger off. 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