Sammamish Forum April7
April 6, 2010
By Administrator
Be a courteous driver
This letter is to all of the drivers who use 228th Avenue going across Inglewood Hill Road and heading up the hill toward Sahalee and points beyond.
I moved from Illinois and I have only lived in the state of Washington for five years (this was not by choice). I have never seen so many rude, aggressive drivers in my life, and I have lived all over the world, as my husband was career Air Force. We even lived in Germany where the people drive very fast but are not rude drivers.
When I come home from work every day and cross Inglewood Hill Road and proceed up the hill, I am always in the left lane because I know the two lanes merge to one and 90 percent of the time there is someone in the right lane beside me and cuts me off to get in the left lane and then acts like it’s OK.
Do you realize the driver in the right lane must yield to the driver in the left lane? There is always someone racing to beat me up the hill. Why? Why don’t you get in the left lane to begin with. Oh, wait, you’re in a hurry and your time is more precious than mine and you don’t want to wait to go up that hill. Because, you know I don’t have to yield to you and you may have to wait a few seconds for an opening.
Many times I let drivers in because they don’t try to beat me and they have their blinker on to merge and I don’t want to be a rude driver like you. Really, think about it the next time you get in the right hand lane to go up that hill.
Mary Stoddard
Sammamish
Postal Service is misunderstood
It seems that the U.S. Postal Service did not get Jared Lopez’s letter to Santa delivered on time, although you have to admit the 44 cents to send the note to the North Pole is a pretty good bargain. Eliminating the requirement for universal service that allows for that pricing would save a ton of money. We could charge based on the distance and the difficulty of delivery.
We have drastically cut the number of employees even with the huge increase in the number of deliveries. Now as far as cutting my pay and benefits in half he may have something there. In this economy you might just be able to get people to work for minimum wage to do this job. Before they hire on I would want them to see my doctor bills for the many repetitive stress injuries I have suffered in 24 years of performing the extremely labor intensive work it takes to take a jumbled mess of thousands of random pieces of mail and make it into an ordered whole that can be taken out and delivered.
There is one point on which Jared is confused. You can’t blame him though, it appears to be one of the countries best kept secrets. While the Postmaster General and the Postal Board of Governors are appointed by the federal government, and we are heavily regulated by the same, our pay comes from the sale of stamps and postal services.
The un-sarcastic suggestion to privatize the operation does have some merit. Other services that are provided by private enterprise have resulted in huge savings. Things like health care, and contracted security forces. Mr. Lopez, I want to personally apologize to you for whatever disservice we have done you to generate your vitriolic letter. It might help you to do a little research on the history and present operation of the Postal Service.
Robert L. Nason
The writer is a rural route letter carrier
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