I was shopping for stamps back in December in order to send out our family’s Christmas/New Year’s/Kwanzakkuh cards. I discovered that the USPS is about 4.5 years late with the health care provider worship:
(The Greenspun Version of this stamp would be large enough for the following legend: “Thank you for hoovering up 20 percent of our GDP and can we please work two days per week instead of just one in order to fund you?”)
What else is going on in the USPS stamp design mill?
Compare the following holidays for fun factor:
(No mention of Maulana Karenga a.k.a. Ronald Everett on the Kwanzaa stamp?)
Perhaps because of the fun discrepancy, the Kwanzaa stamps were sold out at both post offices that I visited.
We’re invited to “celebrate the universal experience of love” with a Keith Haring design. (Haring’s experience of love was having sex with a lot of different guys and then dying of HIV/AIDS in 1990.)
(The USPS didn’t want to use Haring’s mural or a work from the Bad Boys series?)
If we’re done with love we can celebrate a typical migrant and remind the native-born that there would be no entertainment without open borders:
The 8×10 view camera has its moment in the unionized sun:
Separately, I had some difficulty convincing USPS workers on December 23, 2024 to handle a letter to a friend in Canada. They said that the Canadians weren’t accepting mail from the U.S. The Tequesta, Florida Post Office was more accommodating. The lady behind the counter there said that letters were okay, but packages wouldn’t be accepted. The unionized government workers who handle mail in Canada went on strike from November 15, 2024-December 17, 2024. Wikipedia says “On November 29, Canada Post asked the mail services of all other countries to stop accepting or sending mail to Canada, leaving all mail unprocessed in secure containers from November 15. This mail could not be delivered or even scanned due to the strike.”
Meanwhile, Bide expanded social security for government workers today by eliminating the WEP & GPO provisions. Previously, government pension winners got reduced social security.
Referring to 20% of GDP does not accurately describe the issue. Health care costs are largely the same regardless of income, functioning similarly to a poll tax or head tax. For individuals with modest salaries who do not qualify for government assistance (such as Medicare or Obamacare), health care costs could easily exceed 20% of their income. Many are already working two or more days a week to cover health care costs (most don’t know it because they think “my employer pays…”).