{"id":33416,"date":"2025-01-06T14:57:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T20:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33416"},"modified":"2025-01-06T10:36:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T16:36:52","slug":"we-take-out-livers-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/06\/we-take-out-livers-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"We Take Out Livers For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the day after Christmas, the heating elements in our oven went out (for the third time since we&#8217;ve lived here).  In the past, we&#8217;ve called an appliance repairman, a local company (not a lead generation company of any sort, although I guess most anyone now is a dispatcher for subcontractors unless the same guy answers the phone that shows up), he has ordered a part, and he&#8217;s come back to put it in when it arrived.  Apparently, it&#8217;s two screws and two electric connectors, so this time, since I&#8217;m more seasoned now with washer, dryer, and refrigerator repairs, I thought I would maybe do it myself.<\/p>\n<p>So I ordered a part from a seller on Amazon, not fulfilled by Amazon, and:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/shippedwithUSPS.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>To be clear:  Apparently, this part shipped from <em>St. Louis, Missouri<\/em>, two days later (December 28), and:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arrived and left the carrier facility in St. Louis <em>twice<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Arrived in Kansas City on January 1, and then left the facility <em>twice<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Arrived in Springfield facility January 2, <em>last Thursday<\/em>, twice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And there it sits.  It is still scheduled to arrive by Wednesday, after I ordered it and <em>twelve days<\/em> since it shipped from St. Louis.  Which is a three hour drive away.  For some reason, it was routed through Kansas City for a week.<\/p>\n<p>Criminey, I hope it&#8217;s the right part.  The males in the house are missing their frozen pizzas.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what else I&#8217;ve gotten this year?  A couple of returned Christmas cards with this label:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/notdeliverableasaddressed.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>What does that even mean?  I would have thought I scrawled the address incorrectly, perhaps put the zip code from the wrong line on an envelope so it didn&#8217;t match the street address or the city and state, but&#8230;.  No, these were the proper addresses, and Internet maps indicate they have not been bulldozed for new roads.  So what gives?  No clue.  Maybe the Post Office&#8217;s new AI scanners (I just made that up but now looking at it, I see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/ai-data-centers\/how-the-us-postal-service-is-using-ai-at-the-edge-to-improve-mail\" target=\"_new\">they are<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the current Postmaster General responds to criticism like this:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/postmastergeneral.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s him.  In Congress.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/10\/politics\/video\/postmaster-general-usps-congress-oversight-hearing-digvid\" target=\"_new\">Responding to criticism<\/a>.  Man, he sure trolled those Republicans, ainna?  Benjamin Franklin, he is not.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I understand that the Post Office has many fiscal challenges.  Public pensions, public employees, and diminishing use of the post.  But it&#8217;s not helping things by adding Sunday delivery to accommodate Amazon (and then lose a bunch of that revenue when builds out its logistical network).  Or extending first class mail delivery times to, what, a week now?  Combined with the fact that apparently my creditors don&#8217;t send their bills until a week before the bills are due, well, even I am not mailing many checks these days.<\/p>\n<p>Jeez, Louise.  <em>I hope it&#8217;s the right part.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the day after Christmas, the heating elements in our oven went out (for the third time since we&#8217;ve lived here). 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