We run the bullest shit in the shipping business
This is what I love about shipping / post companies.
If you mail an item, you pay a price. That I get. But, if you want their guarantee that they won’t lose it or just, y’know, break it, you have to pay extra. ‘Cause otherwise they might, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Imagine if I was a roofer, building your roof, and you said to me, “Hey. You sure this thing’s not going to come crashing down on my family?” And I responded, “Oh, you want to be sure? I didn’t know that. You’d better pay me another $5,000 if you want me to be sure.”
Wouldn’t you have me arrested, or beaten, or something?
But when it’s FedEx, or USPS or something, we just have to bend over and take it where they put it.
Isn’t capitalism grand?*
*Yes, it is, despite my bitching and moaning. I have this lighter with Chairman Mao’s face on it. It plays the PRC anthem when you open it. It was bought in a bazaar in China shortly after the Government begrudgingly allowed a trickle of capitalism into their country. The idea of a major socialist leader’s visage being used to sell trinkets is friggin’ sweet irony.
