Re: Where to complain about USPS

In <vrk702t066jt8gaumt5tos0do1nl24h7jj@xxxxxxx>, Scott en Aztlán wrote:
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:23:14 -0600, bearclaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

In article <1141079933.928114.261340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
alex.gman@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Where to complain about USPS besides USPS itself (already tried).
Consumer affairs doesn't seem to be the right place.


Call or write to your Congresscritter. It doesn't always work, but when
it does, your problem gets the attention of people who can do something
about it.

Hints: Forget trying your Senator. Go with your local Congressman, even
if you didn't vote for him/her. Try *hard* to contain your anger and
frustration so you don't come off looking like a nut.

Why would anyone think that? Everyone who has ever been the victim of
the UselesS Postal Serveless knows the extreme frustration they cause
in their victims.

If only you or a few people are going to bother to complain to a
Congresscritter, it does pay to complain in ways favorable to being taken
seriously. If you can get 400 neighbors to complain, then complaining
finese gets a little less important since numbers give the impression of a
large number of votes at stake.

Letters to Congresscritters should be very brief, given the amount of
time staffers have to read the tonnage of letters. I would say keep a
letter to a Congresscritter around or under 150 words. And it helps if
you get friends and neighbors to write letters, and in large enough
quantity over enough time and from a wide enough area so that the
appearance is that it appears at least like an activist found an issue
affecting votes as opposed to an activist found organizing skills.

What also helps: If people avoid voting for or against politicians on
the basis of one or two "hot button" issues such as "gay marriage". Also,
it helps to vote in primary elections, and when tolerable to vote for
someone with a smaller campaign budget or having more of their own money -
since politicians with larger campaign budgets from contributions will owe
more favors to contributors and lobbyists.
It helps to research who candidates are likely to owe favors to, as part
of voting for ones that are more free to follow their conscience. It
appears to me that a candidate bound only by a conscience different from
mine will do a better job of government than a candidate that owes favors
to payers that have expectations of pay-to-play.

- Don Klipstein (don@xxxxxxxxx)
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