Mailman Tosses Package Containing Ugly-Ass Clock Over Fence

There is not giving a shit, and then there is Really not giving a shit. And bravo to this mailman, because he just won the "I Don't Give a Shit Employee of the Year Award."

Was it an asshole move? Definitely. Should this guy be complaining about his "black forest cuckoo clock?" No. First off, it was either toss it over the fence or load it back up in the truck and drive on down the road, it would have been on you at that point to haul your ass down to the post office to pick that thing up during their regular business hours, standing in line with the rest of the lepers and cretins who haven't figured out how to use e-mail for everyday correspondence yet.

Secondly, that is one ugly-ass clock. I don't know what you paid for it, but I'm guessing you got ripped off. Whatever the post office gives you for compensation, I'd say pocket it and cut your losses. You're not seriously going to hang that on your wall, are you? I mean I could see if you were a hipster and were hanging it for ironic purposes (in which case a broken cuckoo clock is probs even better), but I get the feeling watching this video that you just have bad taste. If anything this mailman saved you from yourself.

Latest Briliant Idea from the Post Office: Slower Mail, to Save the Business.

Fox News - The U.S. Postal Service, having lost 29 percent of its first-class mail volume in the last decade, will slow its delivery service beginning next spring -- the first time in 40 years -- in an effort to eliminate nearly $3 billion in costs for the cash-strapped agency. "We have to do this in order for the Postal Service to become financially viable," said David E. Williams, vice president of network operations for USPS, who noted Monday that the organization expects to have a $14 billion debt this year.

Hey, why stop there? Why not sell the fleet of ridiculous looking trucks and go out and purchase a pony for every delivery man, really get back to your roots.

This has to be the most ass-backward business plan I've ever heard. The first time anyone has ever, with a straight face, proposed to make their business WORSE, in hopes of making it more fiscally solvent. 

It's almost as if they put no thought whatsoever into this plan. Do they honestly think the few remaining people using the mail for things like, bills, and waste of money holiday cards, are going to continue using the mail service now that it's going to take a fortnight for grandmas card and her $20 bill to reach its destination? Hell no, Grandma, get on Paypal, send those funds electronically.  By the same token, no one is going to be sitting there with a calendar and an abacus trying to figure out how early they have to send out this months car payment so it reaches them on time, the last remaining bills will be switched to on-line bill pay. 

Why can't we just call a spade a spade? The Post Office is a miserably failing business with wayyyy too much overhead. The fact that a company could lose $14 BILLION in one year, all while simply delivering pieces of paper door to door, is astounding. Guys, as a 10-15 year old kid, I had a paper route, 45 houses every day, all it cost me was a new tire for my Huffy every 6 months or so. I don't have some ridiculous pension, didn't have benefits, nor should I have. I was going door to door putting things into peoples mail boxes, it's not exactly the kind of gig you'd think should be union and pension worthy. Just cancel the post office, save us all a lot of money in taxes, and let neighborhood kids deliver the mail. It's pretty simple.