{"id":33423,"date":"2025-01-09T12:37:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T18:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33423"},"modified":"2025-01-09T12:37:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T18:37:53","slug":"so-many-livers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/09\/so-many-livers\/","title":{"rendered":"So Many Livers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2025\/01\/09\/postal-customers-say-their-fed-up-with-backlog-mail-sitting-springfields-post-office\/\" target=\"_new\">Postal customers say they\u2019re fed up with backlog of mail sitting in Springfield\u2019s post office<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/06\/we-take-out-livers-for-you\/\" target=\"_new\">it&#8217;s not just me<\/a> wondering about whether we&#8217;ve reached the &#8220;then quickly&#8221; part of the death of the USPS.<\/p>\n<p>The reporters reached out to the Springfield post office where a man&#8217;s drugs-by-mail sat unmoved for days, and their response echoed that of the Postmaster General:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/postmastergeneral.jpg\" target=\"_new\"><\/p>\n<p>I only reiterate these problems because post offices have been a hallmark of a growing functional country.  I mean, one of the only good things to come out of the Qin Shi Huang dynasty in China was a post office, and Benjamin Franklin was the first Postmaster General of the United States over two hundred years ago.  A government organization which cannot do its function but instead does oh, so many other things of lesser value is really a fin de si\u00e8cle symptom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postal customers say they\u2019re fed up with backlog of mail sitting in Springfield\u2019s post office I guess it&#8217;s not just me wondering about whether we&#8217;ve reached the &#8220;then quickly&#8221; part of the death of the USPS. The reporters reached out to the Springfield post office where a man&#8217;s drugs-by-mail sat unmoved for days, and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33424,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33423\/revisions\/33424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}