Unbelieveable. Human advancment must be stopped, according to the Postal Service

[RB TexLa]

The U.S. Postal Service, near bankruptcy and losing billions of dollars every quarter pushing a product no one wants, unveiled today its new strategy to regain some relevance. That strategy involves scaring consumers about the dangers of email and online bill payment in several new 30-second TV commercials.

The ads tell consumers that unlike email and online services, paper mail delivered door to door can't fall prey to a virus. (Lets not count the anthrax scare of 2001, since anthrax is technically a bacteria.)

“A refrigerator has never been hacked,” the ad's voiceover says as a happy mail recipient pins a paper bill to her fridge. Another ad tells us that USPS customers can be sure that “important letters and information don't get lost in thin air, or disappear with a click.”

For the record, security researchers have hacked fridges since at least 2005. But more to the point, the ads are a pathetic attempt to stem the tide of digital innovation and convenience that is washing away the Post Office's dead tree business model. It's like buggy-whip makers warning about the dangers of those newfangled horseless carriages.



Read more: http://techland.time.com/2011/09/30/new-u-s-post-office-ads-warn-us-about-the-dangers-of-email/#ixzz1ZdMhaGg2

[ixion]

1. rather than speaking out against the people who caused their problems

they attack technology, which is futile. Whoever the PR firm that thought that one up is really ought to be replaced.

[baldguy]

2. Right. Turn everything over to the anti-union UPS and Fedex.

You're missing the forest for the trees.

[Meandering Kitten]

4. No he's not.

The post office needs to make some changes.

[Meandering Kitten]

3. This is not the way to go about it.

The post office needs to evolve and become more and use more and more technology.

[Earth_First]

5. The VERY first sentence of this *snip* is inaccurate... n/t

[EmeraldCityGrl]

6. I call bullshit...

At the very end of that year, Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA). Under PAEA, USPS was forced to “prefund its future health care benefit payments to retirees for the next 75 years in an astonishing ten-year time span” — meaning that it had to put aside billions of dollars to pay for the health benefits of employees it hasn’t even hired yet, something “that no other government or private corporation is required to do.”


http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/09/28/330524/postal-non-crisis-post-office-save-itself/


‘Occupy Wall St.’ joins postal workers in budget protest

Instead of railing against Wall Street, last night the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters decided to join with postal workers in New York City at a protest against a five-day delivery week, which many believe will severely harm the postal service and cause significant job losses.

“A lot of people will lose their jobs and lose their wages, and we don’t need that right now,” a postal worker told Gianni Lazuli, the filmmaker behind Fluxview USA. “Not in this day and time.”

This video is from “Occupy Wall Street,” filmed Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/occupy-wall-st-joins-postal-workers-in-budget-protest/

[JVS]

7. I don't think you're outraged enough.