tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046628493283608233.post1112295222103544621..comments2023-10-29T05:29:58.599-04:00Comments on Right-Side-of-Lowell: Health Care BureaucracyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046628493283608233.post-28339888939257784562012-06-07T12:57:00.923-04:002012-06-07T12:57:00.923-04:00Kad must have had his mail go through the Merrifie...Kad must have had his mail go through the Merrifield Sorting Center. Unfortunate experience.<br /><br />Regards — CliffC R Kriegerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10563658418464959198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046628493283608233.post-15748926466888903372012-06-06T17:11:06.924-04:002012-06-06T17:11:06.924-04:00Mail is a luxury Americans just expect. All I can ...Mail is a luxury Americans just expect. All I can say is, mail a small box with some small items of moderate value to somewhere in Brazil.<br /><br />You may luck out the first time.Jack Mitchellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046628493283608233.post-88322375363839811192012-06-05T18:32:09.868-04:002012-06-05T18:32:09.868-04:00I'll desperately try to resist the USPS rant I...I'll desperately try to resist the USPS rant I started on Greg's blog the other day--but will again point out that my most recent Priority Mail delivery took almost a full FIVE MONTHS...<br /><br />But, in any case, the interest on delayed Medicare payments is actually to the advantage of taxpayers (we're not out the money for months and years after services are rendered) and, rather, to the disadvantage of either the providers, who perform the services and pay for the sera and associated office expenses in order to dispense that care, or the recipients, who may have to front the payment and wait to be reimbursed. No, no way to run a railroad, but float is generally a good thing for at least one of the parties to a transaction.Craig Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09824029248081902170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3046628493283608233.post-78808424213029076592012-06-04T21:22:27.119-04:002012-06-04T21:22:27.119-04:00Cliff, thx for the point you made about the USPS. ...Cliff, thx for the point you made about the USPS. I have been using their services for literally as long as I can remember and I have never had anything lost in the mail (at least that I knew about). <br /><br />For what's still really just a small price, they can take something out of your hands on Monday and have it into the hands of someone in just about any part of the country in the same week, with time to spare. They are impressive.<br /><br />Still, the Post Office gets hit with a lot of cheap shots that people like to say just because, well, they get said a lot. Kind of like bad service at the RMV, or bad airline food, or whatever...it just sort of becomes its own *thing* regardless of the truth.<br /><br />I was thinking about doing an entry on this subject...someone on Facebook did a "bums at City Hall" type of post that I happened to see. I pointed out that a few inaccuracies in the person's comment, and they actually withdrew it and apologized. They never meant any malice with the original comment, but it was just of the "throwaway" sort of variety (like a lot of Post Office-bashing).The New Englanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06201310505648616855noreply@blogger.com