Letters to the Editor for December 10, 2022

Postal Service ready for holidays

The U.S. Postal Service has been hard at work preparing for the holiday season since January. Rest assured, we’re holiday-ready and well prepared to deliver fast and reliable service to every address in Carson City and across America.

USPS has made significant investments to ensure your holiday greeting cards and packages reach their intended destination on time. We’ve added 249 new package sorting machines across the nation which will allow us to process 60 million packages per day. This new equipment is part of $40 billion in new investments made under Delivering for America, our 10-year plan to achieve financial sustainability and service excellence.

Additionally, we have the space we need to manage all packages and mail when they reach us. We’ve strategically expanded our footprint by 8.5 million square feet throughout the country to augment space shortages at existing postal facilities and we’ve deployed new technology on our workroom floors to make sure we can track and move mail and packages quickly and to get them on their way.

The 650,000 men and women of the U.S. Postal Service pride ourselves on playing an important role in delivering the holidays for the nation. We’ve had more than 100,000 part-time employees convert to full-time positions since January 2021.

Thank you for continuing to support the Postal Service. Our Carson City Postal Service team wishes you a wonderful holiday season.

Stacy Saechao

Postmaster

Return humility

The term “God” is merely a title not a name. Without a name or designation of some sort, every breathing entity within the confines of our mutual universe is essentially the same, except in one regard: flatulence. All those sharing other similar titles that try to represent authority of some sort, at some assumed level have the same problem, including the writer of this letter and newspaper editors.

Mr. Putin, with all of the personal advantages at his disposal, cannot do away with or eliminate “flatulence” in any way and also shares it with the innocent little dog that his country released into an eternal ride into the expanding universe.

Mr. Biden, the Chinese Communist Party, the Congress of the United States, local, state, national, international political organizations and all the other breathing forms, having similar advantages, are also a part of this regardless of who, size, importance or insignificance.

The space involved to accommodate this still functions as designed, by whatever means, despite its provable historical record.

Even the size, volume, origin and other properties of said “flatulence,” doesn’t really matter, as all efforts to disguise it have failed.

One thing all of us have managed to eliminate is, “humility.”

AA has an example of this reality that seems to evade us all. “If you continue to do what you have always done, you will continue to get what you have always gotten.”

Merry Christmas.

Pete Bachstadt

Carson City