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The USPS is NetFlix’s Worst Content Delivery Network
Dec 5th
I just finished up with a customer where I had to apply a filter to stop recording all of the NetFlix traffic to an internal organization. I reduced the recorded traffic by nearly a quarter. I wanted to chastise them that if I had spent a quarter of my time on their site watching NetFlix that I would be done sometime late Wednesday, but I bit my tongue. Seriously, when you spend up to the salary of 3 Full Time Employees on streaming Breaking Bad to the Accounting department, its either time to fire the Accountants or time to put in a stupid firewall rule to block NetFlix streaming.
Now the United States Postal Service, who no doubt also spend at least a quarter of their time watching NetFlix, announced that they will no longer send those red envelopes to your home in under 3 days. 3 Billion bucks in cuts for the Post Office. I say its about time.
From CBS here:
The U.S. Postal Service on Monday morning announced major budget and service cuts.
As a result of the $3 billion in cuts, first-class mail that used to take just one day to deliver will now take two to three days. Stamps will also rise in cost by 1 cent to 45 cents, starting next month.
The cuts would force the closure of 250 of the nearly 500 mail processing centers around the country, as well as some 3,700 local post offices this coming spring.
Netflix DVDs and other time-sensitive mail will arrive a day or two later than usual with the change.
The Postal Service is expecting a record loss of $14.1 billion next year amid steady declines in first class mail volume.
I would love to see NetFlix personally take over delivery of DVD’s and charge the USPS more cash to deliver their mail for them too. Slacking bastards at the post office can at least retire with full benefits, which is why they can’t stay in business. So the 14 billion dollars loss will of course, come out of your taxes and mine. By my estimation, there needs to be about 1600 postal workers going postal to weed out all the fat in the system to break even.
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Fish and Stamps are New Prison Currency
Feb 9th
Holy Mackerel. And stamps. And coffee are now the most prized valuables in prison. Might come in handy for people like jailed hacker wannabe Byron Sonne who doesn’t look to be getting out any time soon.
From Wired here:
Inmates in federal penitentiaries aren’t allowed to have actual money; family members can load up prison commissary accounts, which usually max out at about $300 a month, but the money’s not transferable and can be redeemed only at the commissary. And cigarettes, the former gold standard for securing everything from a bodyguard to starched laundry, have all but disappeared since tobacco was banned at federal pens in 2004.
So this article, along with this one here about surviving prison might be just what the G20 anarchist in jail needs.
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Jan 1st
Also in the Space section of the Udvar Hazy, tucked away in a glass case next to the Space Shuttle Enterprise was this Star Wars mailbox. During the 30th anniversary of the Star Wars movie, the USPS issued a series of stamps and also painted a bunch of mailboxes to mark the anniversary.
This one is signed by George Lucas and the Postmaster General.
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USPS Releasing Pixar Stamps in 2011
Dec 30th
Check out these five great USPS forever stamps slated for an August release from the United States Postal Service.
From the USPS here:
Since 1986, Pixar films have stretched the boundaries of our imagination with stories about unlikely heroes who explore the bonds of friendship and family. Now some of those heroes are the subjects of colorful new Send a Hello stamps that encourage people to connect with loved ones through the mail.
The Send a Hello stamps, which go on sale Aug. 19, are a natural outgrowth of the Art of Disney stamp series issued between 2004 and 2008. Originally intended as a series of three annual issuances depicting friendship, celebration, and romance, the Art of Disney stamps proved so popular that the Postal Service expanded the series to include issuances in 2007 and 2008 to celebrate imagination and magic.
Based on that success, the Postal Service was eager to work with the Walt Disney Company again, choosing to explore the Disney*Pixar films, which offer exciting, contemporary characters and strong themes involving family and friends.
Looks like I will be getting some of these for my collection.
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Jun 27th
This is a series of stamps for the Royal mail that depict the Isle of Britain’s mythical creatures by artist Dave McKean. The US gets Bigfoot and Hogzilla. The UK gets faeries, giants, mermaids and pixies. Check ‘em out:
Neil Gaiman, the author of the Epic Sandman Chronicles and the mind behind the awesome Coraline movie, was tasked to write the textual descriptions of the stamps. You can find that info here from the Times. An excerpt about Mermaids:
She keeps the souls of the drowned in lobster pots that she finds on the seabed.
They sing, the captive souls, and they light her way home beneath the grey Atlantic.
She had sisters once, but long ago they shed their tails and scales and stepped gingerly ashore to live with fishermen in their dry-land cottages. Now she is lonely, and not even the souls of the dead are company.
Walk the sea’s edge in winter and you may see her, too far away, waving to you. Wave back and she will take you down to her world, deep below the waves, and show you cold wonders, and teach you the songs of the merfolk, and the lonely ways beneath the sea.
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May 8th
Do you realize that there are people graduating college this year that have never known a day when the Simpsons weren’t on the air? To celebrate the 20th year of the cartoon, the US Postal Service issued commemorative stamps featuring each of the characters.
You can purchase your own at the USPS store here. Simpsons not your thing? How ’bout them Beatles then?
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