Is the Post Office closed today?

Bank was closed today too.
(Grumble grumble)

I just gave my mailman a few cigars for Christmas.....So yes they are open today.

@deadman said:
Old mail lady would put things in a bag if she suspected rain. New mail people act like they delivering newspapers, throw it out the window as they drive by

Millennial work ethic

January 12, 2021
In Transit, Arriving Late
Your package will arrive later than expected, but is still on its way. It is currently in transit to the next facility.
January 7, 2021, 4:10 am
Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
JERSEY CITY NJ NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER
January 7, 2021, 2:37 am
Departed USPS Regional Facility
STAMFORD CT DISTRIBUTION CENTER
January 6, 2021, 7:39 pm
Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
STAMFORD CT DISTRIBUTION CENTER
January 5, 2021, 5:58 pm
Departed Post Office
PEABODY, MA 01960
January 5, 2021, 5:16 pm
USPS in possession of item
PEABODY, MA 01960
January 5, 2021, 2:20 pm
Shipping Label Created, USPS Awaiting Item
PEABODY, MA 01960

It appears that the USPS has been closed for a week.

They may not be closed, but this is part of a trip that a package heading toward me has taken. Why in the world would it make a U-Turn and go North?

January 16, 2021, 11:59 am
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SPRINGFIELD MA NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER
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January 15, 2021, 5:42 pm
Departed USPS Regional Facility
MIAMI FL DISTRIBUTION CENTER
January 15, 2021, 6:39 am
Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
MIAMI FL DISTRIBUTION CENTER
January 15, 2021, 2:37 am
Arrived at USPS Regional Facility
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@ShawnOL said:
What the hell is Juneteenth? Celebrating more nonsense?

Just the end of slavery in the Western world.

@ShawnOL said:
I had to Google it.

Well, now you know.

@ShawnOL said:
Lol.

You’re cancelled lmao

@ShawnOL said:
What the hell is Juneteenth? Celebrating more nonsense?

Lincoln proclaimed emancipation of slaves in unconquered Confederate states in what, 1863? It was a war measure to raise hell behind enemy lines. It wasn't until two years later, June 19th 1865, that Union soldiers brought emancipation to Texas. Negroes began to celebrate, dancing in the streets. That is what inspired Juneteenth.

750,000 soldiers died in the Civil War. That's 2 1/2% of the populationm at the time. If 2.5% died today, that would be round about seven million. About 8k have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Think about it.

Soldiers on both sides were conscripted. Think about that. Is it more fun to be enslaved for labor or for murder?

Southern soldiers were outnumbered 2 1/2 to one. So Democrats didn't stand a chance in the end. Especially since both industry and boatbuilding were concentrated in the North.

Juneteenth didn't end slavery in the Western Hemisphere. Brazil had slaves until almost the end of the century.

It didn't end slavery world wide, either. In fact, just a couple years ago, when Trump kicked ISIS' butt, thousands of sex slaves were freed. I remember when Mauritania officially made slavery illegal in Bush's time. But making it illegal didn't end it. Just made Mauritania smell better to the UN, I spose. Prolly some kinda monetary aid on the table.

I really think there ought to be something or other to commemorate the British Anti-Slavery Society that promoted the idea of universal freedom for so long. Same society flourished among the Quakers here. The idea was derived from the European Enlightenment the century before. Certainly, the world owes a great debt to the British Navy finally turning that idea into reality round the world. Ironically, that same navy was manned by pressed sailors during that era. So you had crews of white Brits conked on the head and dragged to sea to end slave traffic from Zanzibar to Coromandel, both ways around. History is stranger than fiction.

When considered comprehensively, near universal manumission is a magnificent achievement of white supremacy only made possible by imperialism. Wrap your head around that.

The people who make it their obsession to know complain that there are more millions of slaves now than ever... partly as an unintended consequence of ending imperialism, and partly as forced labor. Estimates vary around forty million. They don't just count Uighurs forced to make your iPhones, but include oriental fishing boats, the gal who gave Bob Kraft a happy ending, Chinese organ harvesting, and even African children in rebel armies. Just last year, a half dozen youngsters from Mali tried to sue Nestle here in the USA because they had been kidnapped and forced to pick chocolate in Ivory Coast. Cobalt, so crucial to making batteries on which the green revolution depends, is notoriously mined in the Congo by forced child labor. As a result, couple years ago, a similar law suit was brought by several Congolese parents against everyone from Apple to Google to Microsoft and Dell. Lawyers get rich but slavery continues.

Then there's this, from Winston Churchill:

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

... and now back to your regularly scheduled programming

@webmost said:

@ShawnOL said:
What the hell is Juneteenth? Celebrating more nonsense?

Lincoln proclaimed emancipation of slaves in unconquered Confederate states in what, 1863? It was a war measure to raise hell behind enemy lines. It wasn't until two years later, June 19th 1865, that Union soldiers brought emancipation to Texas. Negroes began to celebrate, dancing in the streets. That is what inspired Juneteenth.

750,000 soldiers died in the Civil War. That's 2 1/2% of the populationm at the time. If 2.5% died today, that would be round about seven million. About 8k have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Think about it.

Soldiers on both sides were conscripted. Think about that. Is it more fun to be enslaved for labor or for murder?

Southern soldiers were outnumbered 2 1/2 to one. So Democrats didn't stand a chance in the end. Especially since both industry and boatbuilding were concentrated in the North.

Juneteenth didn't end slavery in the Western Hemisphere. Brazil had slaves until almost the end of the century.

It didn't end slavery world wide, either. In fact, just a couple years ago, when Trump kicked ISIS' butt, thousands of sex slaves were freed. I remember when Mauritania officially made slavery illegal in Bush's time. But making it illegal didn't end it. Just made Mauritania smell better to the UN, I spose. Prolly some kinda monetary aid on the table.

I really think there ought to be something or other to commemorate the British Anti-Slavery Society that promoted the idea of universal freedom for so long. Same society flourished among the Quakers here. The idea was derived from the European Enlightenment the century before. Certainly, the world owes a great debt to the British Navy finally turning that idea into reality round the world. Ironically, that same navy was manned by pressed sailors during that era. So you had crews of white Brits conked on the head and dragged to sea to end slave traffic from Zanzibar to Coromandel, both ways around. History is stranger than fiction.

When considered comprehensively, near universal manumission is a magnificent achievement of white supremacy only made possible by imperialism. Wrap your head around that.

The people who make it their obsession to know complain that there are more millions of slaves now than ever... partly as an unintended consequence of ending imperialism, and partly as forced labor. Estimates vary around forty million. They don't just count Uighurs forced to make your iPhones, but include oriental fishing boats, the gal who gave Bob Kraft a happy ending, Chinese organ harvesting, and even African children in rebel armies. Just last year, a half dozen youngsters from Mali tried to sue Nestle here in the USA because they had been kidnapped and forced to pick chocolate in Ivory Coast. Cobalt, so crucial to making batteries on which the green revolution depends, is notoriously mined in the Congo by forced child labor. As a result, couple years ago, a similar law suit was brought by several Congolese parents against everyone from Apple to Google to Microsoft and Dell. Lawyers get rich but slavery continues.

Then there's this, from Winston Churchill:

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

... and now back to your regularly scheduled programming

🙄

I felt emancipated the moment this post ended....