>"To the extent that the post office and such overreact, it is more
>effective. If they
>panic every time a bag of rice goes through to mail directed at the
>President, more strain is put on the system. It makes a much more
>effective "cost raising" tactic, than if they ignore it. And they look
>like panicky fools. "
>
>what cost will be raised? stamps? what if the strain on the system (?)
>causes , say, social security checks to be late? is this the best we can
>do to counter the government? aggravate or frighten postal employees,
>and hassle other people who have little or nothing to do with what is
>wrong in this country?
>
>fs
gar is pointing out is that it's the post office that is over-reacting. this protest has been going on for a month now. exactly two incidents have been reported, so far as I can tell from a google news search. Rather than cow-towing to idiotic over-reactions by being polite, continue on as planned.
the result will not likely be anger on the part of workers, no more the stress put on the system in NY and SF, or for commuters in NY and Seattle recently. For pity's sake, your and carrol's experiment in methane respiration are failig badly. Here's an example of how the system overloads itself when people overreact:
In Tampa two bank clerks doing a foreclosure inspection reported a cache of longarms and hand grenades. They told the cops about suspected explosives.
The response? Tampa police showed up with a SWAT team in full gear, evacuated 17 homes, and planted snipers in yards. They shouted at the occupant with a bull horn trying to get him to come out.
Problem was, he wasn't even home. This went on for six hours before they figured it out.
One cop was reported as saying, "we have better things to do with our time." He sounded just as exasperated as the cops at NYC's demo sounded according to some reports: frustrated with the orders handed down to them by superiors. Frustrated b/c he knows that the hype surrounding readiness is a crock. What someone last year called Nerf=Based Security (riffing on the title of a book my boss wrote)