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Well, you and I know you live in a USPS black hole, Harry! Mail circles your mailbox in 20-mile radii and stops in to visit all the post offices in surrounding communities for days before it accidentally ends up at your post office. :wacko:

Dollars to doughnuts, when the 'list of destinations that are exceptions to the 2-day standard,' your zip code will be right at the top of the list! Right up there with Bemidji, MN, Lower Pelican Rapids, MS, and Two Empty Cups, NM.

Just sayin.' B)

Hey Bemidji is a legit city. College hockey put them on the map.

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Hey Bemidji is a legit city. College hockey put them on the map.

Yes, it is. It's also the farthest North, smallest, and coldest town in the USA where the FBI posts agents (at least back in the day). The not-so-funny joke around the FBI was that if you screwed up badly, they'd reassign you to Bemidji. :unsure:

It was not a coveted career move.

Edited by Danno
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It still isn't.

Secret Service sends it's problems to New York City to work on welfare fraud.

ATF to Alabama.

Missouri Highway Patrol sends screw ups to the gaming division. Imagine that for punishment. Heck I do that job daily.

SHOWGURLZ!

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What irked me today?

The United States Postal Service.

I got a package delivered today. The sender mailed it on May 20 and paid for "Priority Mail" two day delivery.

Mailed 5-20. Delivered 5-27.

Hey Harry,

Where my wife and I are moving to in Montana the mail only gets delivered on Monday and Friday. I wonder if it will be coming by horse & rider or by stagecoach ?

Edited by Old Buckaroo
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It's no better in southern Nevada. A letter or card takes an average of five days to travel from here to St Louis. It takes about the same in return. I too paid for two day delivery which took six days. There was no holiday involved either.

Sean I'd say horse and rider to remote Montana, here in the big city we get the stagecoach.

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Comcast!! Lets just say they are a bunch of liars/crooks as anyone who has had them already knows. But what really irked me is the nonstop phone calls and even a text to return their equipment. I cancelled their service the other day and then had to quickly leave for work to be gone over a week. Did not have time to return said equipment. Anyhow, long story short after I received a 'threatening' voicemail about being charged a 'equipment fee' (Comcast loves their fees, they will fee you to death) a couple days after cancelling I called and explained to the woman that I was out of town and would not be able to bring the equipment back until Thurs the 29th. She said not a problem I will make a note on your account that it will be back on Thurs. I get yet another reminder call on Monday and a text on Tues about their equipment and 'a fee'.

Now I understand it is their equipment and I need to return it, I'm not trying to steal it. I just am not home to get it to you. But it irks me that even after talking to someone and arranging a drop off day that they are still calling me. Maybe they should move some of those people over to the customer service line so you aren't on hold for hours. (True story: I was on hold for 11/2 hours once and no one ever picked up). If I was thinking straight and not distracted by my anger when I talked to them last I would have told them I'll be by on Thursday between noon and 7pm and you will know I have arrived when your equipment comes crashing through the front window (ala little old lady in tire commercial). So to sum it up I hate Comcast.

Rant over.

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Walmart? They have the worst scheduling system on the planet. 2 in the afternoon on a saturday: 3 cashiers. 8am on a monday morning: 9 cashiers.

One of them.

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I just checked the Speedway I buy E85 from after seeing Craigs post, they just dropped their prices with E85 leading the way at $2.78/gal and regular following at $3.78/gal!

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I know someone who is able to use the E-85 fuel and they tell me that even though it is cheaper per gallon, they don't get the mileage they do with the E-10 fuel. So they don't use the E-85 fuel in their vehicle.

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I know someone who is able to use the E-85 fuel and they tell me that even though it is cheaper per gallon, they don't get the mileage they do with the E-10 fuel. So they don't use the E-85 fuel in their vehicle.

For it to make sense, it has to be $.80/gal or better less than regular, which is breaking even with the mileage loss. I usually go by what the closer stations' prices are vs that station's are. With the station I buy from, even if they're internally $1/gal less, their gas prices can be enough that it would be cheap enough compared to by home or work for me to buy gas for my Jeep there too. At one point last summer, it was anywhere from $1/gal to $1.50/gal less than regular at that station since gas was up well over $4/gal, and the stations in St. Charles, Geneva, and West Chicago that were anywhere from $.05-$.30/gal more for just gas.

One thing myself and others with Pentastar equipped Mopars is that these little motors like their booze a whole lot and are willing to push their personal "spread limit" to cover premium as well as regular. Dad is kinda bummed the VVT Hemi in my Sister's new Challenger isn't flex fuel too, not only from a fuel cost standpoint (currently $1.40/gal spread vs Premium at the same station), but from a power and performance standpoint too!

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My Verizon Fios DVR... anyone have one and see this issue? When I'm watching a taped show and I fast forward through commercials, if there's less than 5 minutes left on the show, it will just end the show, instead of stopping where I've hit stop. Then I have to start the show over again, and fast forward through the whole thing to get to where I was.

Is this an inherent flaw with Fios? Specific to their software? Or a function of my model DVR? Anyone experiencing this? Does it happen on other service providers... it bothers me enough to switch!

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I suppose some of you will jump on me for being a nit picker, but I really find the use of the term "Zero Emissions" for electric cars, disingenuous and misleading. The only such vehicles are peddle or animal powered and there is a case that could be made for methane emissions. All the electric cars are emissions transfer devices unless you have solar panels on your roof to charge the car. The electricity is made some where and even here in California where we are over the top with emissions, 60% of our electricity comes from either gas or coal fired plants. That is not Zero emissions, that is just sent someplace other than where the darned cars are being driven. :angry: So lets deceive the average Joe into believing they are doing something good for the environment by spending way more for personal transportation and driving around in a car loaded with heavy metals that is going to be a real pain to dispose of when it is worn out.

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IIRC, when it comes to tailpipe emissions vs stack emissions, even though the stacks put out nasty stuff, they are supposedly less polluting when charging fleets of EV's than the equivalent number of similar gas powered cars powered cars. Lithium batteries are much better than the Nickel or Lead based batteries in not only weight and performance (voltage and amperage), but tend to be cleaner to manufacture and just as easy to recycle. Not too worried about the whole battery fire thing like Tesla had recently since a similar situation would be far worse for the typical car.

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I suppose some of you will jump on me for being a nit picker, but I really find the use of the term "Zero Emissions" for electric cars, disingenuous and misleading. The only such vehicles are peddle or animal powered and there is a case that could be made for methane emissions. All the electric cars are emissions transfer devices unless you have solar panels on your roof to charge the car. The electricity is made some where and even here in California where we are over the top with emissions, 60% of our electricity comes from either gas or coal fired plants. That is not Zero emissions, that is just sent someplace other than where the darned cars are being driven. :angry: So lets deceive the average Joe into believing they are doing something good for the environment by spending way more for personal transportation and driving around in a car loaded with heavy metals that is going to be a real pain to dispose of when it is worn out.

Thank you, the truth that no one wants to speak.

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Even in my most cynical moments of conspiracy theory fun, I fail to see why an empty boat exploding in Japan would cause the price of gas to go up. The article says the thing unloaded last week, so there's no loss of product, and I doubt there's a shortage of tankers in the Pacific since Japan has to import pretty much all it's oil. Edited by niteowl7710
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Every time the price of fuel goes up, the petroleum companies gives us a reason and we take it to be gospel. Give me a break! They can tell us anything they want, and get away with it. How 'bout the rising prices of cable TV? The CEO of Comcast earns(?) a whopping 31.4 million dollars per year. That's right, I did say MILLION dollars per year. The consumers just like taxpayers are getting ripped off "BIG TIME!"

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Gas prices here vary almost daily. They go up about 30 cents a gallon over the course of the week, then drop back down every week, that is NOT from a Japanese tanker blowing up. That is simply corporate greed and price gouging.

Edited by midnightprowler
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Gas went up because it was Memorial Day. It's a travel holiday, and the beginning of the infamous "Summer Driving Season". Not to mention when a lot of places have to switch over to those stupid "summer blend" gasoline formulations.

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Even in my most cynical moments of conspiracy theory fun, I fail to see why an empty boat exploding in Japan would cause the price of gas to go up. The article says the thing unloaded last week, so there's no loss of product, and I doubt there's a shortage of tankers in the Pacific since Japan has to import pretty much all it's oil.

I see you failed to see my sarchasm in that post too....

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