Backward thinking has Reading Eagle deep in red ink

The headline reads: Backward thinking has mail officials deep in red ink. It is an editorial about how newspapers the U.S. Postal Service can't keep up with modern life.

One passage reads:

In March hospital officials received a donation in memory of a physician who recently had died. The donation was made by a company in San Mateo, Calif. As is hospital policy, the person in charge of the development office sent by first-class mail a receipt for the donation to the address that was written on the check.

Two weeks later the envelope containing the receipt was returned to the development office at the hospital with a yellow sticker on it that indicated the addressee had moved, and the time allotted to forward mail to the new address had expired.

But the sticker also included the name and the new address of the company to which the receipt was being sent. The new address also was in San Mateo, Calif., just a few blocks away from the old one. But rather than taking the envelope the few extra blocks, someone at the Postal Service thought it was more cost-effective to ship it more than 2,800 miles back to the hospital.

Perhaps someone thought the additional 44 cents the hospital would pay for a new first-class stamp to send the receipt to the new address would make this whole process cost-effective.

(rimshot)

Do you think this illustrates the ineptitude or the venality of the Postal Service? Or is there a method to this supposed madness?

Think about it...

Let's suppose you mail a greeting card to a faraway friend. And that friend has moved and his mail forwarding has expired? Would it not be helpful to have the card returned with your buddy's new address so you can update your records? Is not keeping in touch with a faraway friend worth 44 cents?

(rimshot...to opinion page editor Jim Homan's weenie peabrain)

UPDATE: Link added.

Harry Deitz yanks off Garry Trudeau

The Reading Eagle pulled another boner today, a whopper, specifically via its editor, Harry Deitz, who jerked Garry Trudeau off the op-ed page because the satirist dared to lampoon invasive medical procedures that men in government will require of women, a controversial subject that Harry Deitz does not agree with and thertefore you will not be allowed to ponder.

For additionial information, tune in Rush Limbaugh on WEEU, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reading Eagle Company, later today.

(Doonesbury via LA Times)

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