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Mail and the Panic Society.



    The mail was an important way to keep track of information
and to communicate with each other.

    In the 16th century, the mail was often used to keep in
touch with other governments, with diplomats, with scientist, and
with other evil White Europeans. The mail was even used to pass
along news, orders for commences, notes and other important
things of business.

    Mail traveled very slowly then. It took months for the mail
to travel across the ocean. It often traveled by postal rider, or
stagecoach. It was also quite expensive to send mail. Therefore,
only the rich or the Government could afford to do this.

    Often, mail could be lost or stolen. Many of the leaky ships
sank. The mail often got wet or moldy, It could also get read and
copied.

    There was not much that could be done to protect the mail.
However, many people used what was called sealing wax and an
official seal. This way, the receiver knew if that letter was
still secure, or had been read before he received it.

    Before the telegraph came into use, the mail rider was often
used to carry express mail. A pony express route was set up to
carry mail to california. Horses were badly abused for this. It
was a dangerous job. Some riders were killed by thieves. However,
most mail got through and on time. it was still an expensive way
to send mail, also, there was a weigh problem since only so much
could be sent on a horse and rider.

    With the invention of the evil railroad, the mail could
travel much faster. Also, the cost of sending mail went down to
the point that the masses could use it. Soon, millions of pieces
of mail were being sent. To make it easier to sort this mass of
mail, mail was sorted in the mail car. it was then bagged and
tossed out at the town. A mail bag was also snagged from a post
as well.

    With the evil airplane, mail traveled even faster. It could
get to a place in days instead of weeks.

    In the 20th century, the mail industry became a huge
business. The US Post Office has become the big mail mover. It
also has competitors with UPS, RPS, Western Union, and other
services which handle the profitable packaging service.

    Evil Technology has also stepped in. Mail can be sent by
jet, rail, postal truck, ship, and even electronically by the Fax
machine.

However, There have been many problems that have occurred.

    The price of send a letter had dropped to 4 cents by 1950.
Then, inflation and the greed factor stepped in. it rose to 5
cents, soon, it was 8 cents, then 12 cents, 15 cents, 20 cents,
25 cents, and now, 29 cents. Each time the price went up, there
was mass confusion, shortages of new stamps, and a shortage of
odd stamps needed to make up the difference in postage cost. Your
Glorious Leaders are outraged by this constant stamp inflation.

    The stamp itself was not exempt. Often, it used a glue that
had to be moisoned by your tong. The glue had an awful taste. You
could cut your tong on the edge. Someone could put drugs on those
stamps.

    In addition, stamps often were printed with pictures and
other things. Such stamps could become a collectors item. This
could get very expensive in addition to the cost of the stamps
themselves.

    Sometimes, the cancelled stamp could be valuable in itself.
This could get people into trouble. Example, some Apollo
astronauts got themselves into serious trouble when they took
with them to the moon, some letters for some collector friends,
and cancelled the stamps while they were on the moon.

    In January, 1993, the post office dead letter department was
swamped with hundreds of thousands of letters with, the new Elvis
stamp, that were deliberately sent to a wrong address. Those
letter senders were trying to get their letters stamped with
"Return to Sender". It created a major mess at the post office.

    Another problem were bills. Greedy evil Companies loved to
send you the bill through the mail. Often, this bill was due just
before you got it, or worse yet, it was now pass due. You got all
sorts of nasty notes and duplicate, you owe money bills, even
after you had paid this off.

    Many times, bad news came through the mail, The ultimate bad
news was that "Greetings from Selective Service, You have been
drafted". That happened a lot in the 60's.

    Mail often got lost. This could happened when it fell out of
the mail carriers bag, Often, it just got chewed up in a piece of
machinery or fell off of the belt and into a crack in the floor.
Stamps fell off, the address got smudges so that it was
unreadable.

    Letters were sent to addresses that no longer exist. Then,
it got sent back to you. This often happened when you had to
write to some company about their inferior product that you
bought through the mail. Such companies often used PO boxes that
changed addresses often.

    Mail could be very slow. There are cases of mail that took
40 years to get sent to the destination.

    Then, there were problems with mail delivery. In addition to
being late, there have been many cases where the mailman was not
the mailman. You could then be robbed, mugged, raped, or murdered
by the impostor.

    The mail could often be stolen enroute. It has been stolen
in the post office. It is even stolen out of mailboxes in
apartment buildings. This often happened at the first of the
month when Social Security checks are sent to the elderly.

    Often, the mail box would be full of junk. This was because
the mail became a great place for companies to send advertising.
They are even offered a special low rate for sending this Junk
Mail. This "junk Mail" took up a lot of room and filled up your
trash bag. Such junk mail contained a lot of too good to be true
offers that were designed to separate you from your money.

    In the county, your mail box could actually be filled with
junk. Sometimes dead animals were stuffed in it. Other times,
Teen Boys would smash the mail box, mail and all, just for the
fun of it.

    The mail itself could be dangerous. Some nuts have sent what
are called letter bombs. They explode when you open them.

    Other times, the mail was stuff that was illegal to be sent.
You could be arrested on the spot when you picked up this illegal
mail. What was most annoying is that Government that wrote the
laws making such stuff illegal was sending it in the mail. Read
the Porno Trap for more about this story. Several people in
Saginaw were arrested after they received such pornography in the
mail. I burned the ad, mailed the return mailer back to them (no
return address) and told them to stick it up their ###.

    64 people were arrested in Saginaw, in February, when they
received a official looking letter that said that they had money
owed to them. They were arrested when they went down to the
Federal Building to claim their money.

    Not content that the jail has been overcrowded for years,
authorities tried this again. This time, March, 1993, they told
individuals that they could get free tickets to a collage
basketball finals. Only 25 of the 400 applicants show up at the
downtown campus of Delta Collage where they were arrested en mass
by officers with their weapons drawn.

    Collage officials, who had rented the room to the city, were
furious. Innocent students and professors could have been hurt
had some of the suspects fought back.

    Being the mailman is even more dangerous.

    Mail workers had to work all kinds of odd hours. Many of the
jobs were at night. Such jobs involved driving trucks all night
long, on weekends, and, in all kinds of bad weather. They would
get in all kinds of trouble if they were late. And, of course,
they could be fired and, or spend time in prison if they had an
accident in their truck.

    The post office was worse then working in Russia. The place
is full of one way mirrors where supervisors constantly spy on
the employees. One slip, or, if the supervisor didn't like that
person, it was prison time for the employee.

    This pressure could cause an employee to go berserk.
Example, August 19, 1983, Perry B Smith killed the local
postmaster and wounded two others. He had worked there for 25
years. December 2, 1983, James Howard Brooks killed the
postmaster and wounded another worker. March 6, 1985, Stephen W
Brownlee who had worked in the post office for 12 years, killed
two and wounded a third in the mail sorting room. May 31, 1985,
Joseph Medina shot a postal worker in the stomach and held the
supervisor hostage for 2 hours. August 20, 1986, Patric Sherrill,
a part time letter carrier killed 14 employees before killing
himself. December 14, 1988, Warren Murphy shot and wounded three
people and held a women hostage for 13 hours. August 10, 1989,
John Merlin Taylor killed two workers and wounded another before
taking his own life. October, 1991, Joseph Harris killed his
supervisor and two other postal employees. November 14, 1991,
Thomas McIlvane killed 5 people and wounded 5 others in the Royal
Oak post office before killing himself. As a result, armed guards
now patrol the Royal Oak post office. This now has created even
more tension there.

    May 6, 1993, a person, mad that someone else was promoted,
went berserk and shot three people before killing himself in a
Detroit area post office. Three hours later, another disgruntled
postal worker in California shot co-workers and his mother.

    Working conditions are so bad in this government run
business that 36 co-workers have been killed by an employee in
the past 6 years.

    Mail delivery persons delivered the mail in jeep like
trucks. Such trucks were unsafe as they did not have to be built
to the normal safety standards. The doors could easily pop open
on an accident. Also, the drivers side was on the wrong side of
the truck. This made it impossible for them to pass slow traffic.
They could easily get hit by speeding traffic as they were
constantly stopping on the road to deliver mail in each mailbox.

    The city mailman was in even more danger. They had to walk
house to house in all kinds of weather. Many of them have been
injured by slipping on icy sidewalks. Others have had back
injuries while carrying heavy bags stuffed with junk mail or
Christmas cards. Even more have been attacked by vicious dogs.
Others have been injured by irate dog owners when the mailman
maced the attacking dog.

    Many of the mailmen have been robbed, shot, attacked,
robbed, and even murdered by the teen boy gangs while trying to
deliver the mail. It got so bad in Chicago that the mailmen there
often tossed the mailbag into the trash.

    Your Glorious Leaders loved to use the mail service. They
often had free mailing privileges. They used this to their
advantage to send out tons of free junk mail to all of the voters
in their district.

    Often, they would lobby for a new post office. This was done
even of one wasn't needed. Many local towns had post offices that
are staffed by one person as a postmaster. Since mail is usually
sorted in a big central city those people had little to do. Many
of those local offices served less then 100 people.

    The mail was often a joke. Mail continues to be lost,
stolen, or just plain ruined. Do not bend packages get bent.
Fragile gets smashed. Computer disks get bent or erased. Film
gets exposed to x-rays. Baby chicks get lost and end up dead by
the time they are delivered. Stamps fall off of letters which
then get returned to sender. Magazines get pages ripped off of
them.

    And, mail gets read by unauthorized people. Mail being sent
to APO, FPO, and people in prison is commonly opened and read.

    Mail being sent to the troops in Saudi Arabia is read and
censored. Words and phrases are marked out. Pictures in magazines
are blacked out with markers.

    Mail sent to prisoners in an area Michigan is now censored,
similar to the Saudi Arabia situation, in additional to the
normal check for drugs.

    Mail being sent back is also read, Parts of it are even
blacked out or, as was a common practice in WW2, has pieces cut
out of it. As a result, it took 6 weeks for a letter to go
overseas and get a return response.

    In the Panic Society, none of this nonsense will be put up
with. The mail service will be eliminated. After all, it is too
dangerous for everyone to be exposed to the undesirable people,
mail bombs, germs on the letters, junk mail and other hazards.

    Trees will no longer be cut down to make paper. Paper mills
will no longer be polluting the environment. Junk mail will no
longer be clogging landfills or end up blowing all over the
place.

    People will no longer have to buy and lick expensive yucky
tasting stamps that Michigan Corrections officials are afraid may
have drugs dried on the glue side.











































On the Negative Side.

    Another freedom gone.



Is this all possible?

    Yes, if Your Glorious Leaders are allowed to have their way.