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Looks like HC screwed the pooch again LOL
audiopile:
Let me jump on the dog pile:
A notification was recently posted at our local post office, notifying us (local postal customers), that the hours of operation will be reduced to 4 hours per day (8:00am - noon). Unfortunately for myself (being the highest volume shipper at our local post office), I typically mail packages in the afternoon. Wording in the notification explained that this reduction in service is a move to respond to the declining volume of mail handled by our local post office. Humm... somehow reducing services doesn't seem to me like the way to address declining business. The good news is that the notification also stated that Saturday service will not be reduced... from it's current zero hours :facepalm:
I'm sitting here this morning attempting to learn how to draft a petition… because: A notification was recently posted by our county govt. at both ends of a local county road… that many of us locals use a lot. The public notice is an announcement that our county commissioners consider said county road as “useless for the public”, and therefore said road will be vacated and abandoned (made impassible). Admittedly there is an alternative route that could be used, but the alternative route is somewhere around 10X as long as the road to be removed from service. So… I called the county court house to see what’s up with that? According to person I talked with at the court house (or possibly county engineering dept), the notification that was posted wasn't supposed to be posted (yet). As I understand it, what was suppose to be posted was/is a notification of a public hearing 12 days from now for public input on the consideration of vacating said public road. Apparently the county screwed up and… ahem… seemingly posted the commissioner’s decision before posting the notification for public opinion. :facepalm:
RoadRanger:
Insurance claim can't be made until 21 days after it was shipped and take 30-60 days to pay out :( . Not really worried about the Nor'easter - just one more thing to have to wait through.
Ah well, supposed to warm up this weekend and I need to repackage my indoor rig to be ready for action :) . It all fits in my hatchback and I just picked up some more small duffels to better organize cables and such. Hard cases take way too much room. I mostly need to sort out the stuff (extra cables, mics, stands, etc) I don't need to be taking.
OTOH I see guys that have been on the cover of Guitar Player, session players and guys that have toured extensively with "A" acts playing $50 a man gigs around here :( . Pretty sad music scene.
RoadRanger:
Ouch, sorry about your troubles with the post office and local moron brigade - oops I meant government :facepalm:. None of them folks are gonna be happy until you're pulled down to their level :( .
audiopile:
--- Quote from: RoadRanger on November 07, 2012, 05:36:27 PM ---Ouch, sorry about your troubles with the post office and local moron brigade - oops I meant government :facepalm:. None of them folks are gonna be happy until you're pulled down to their level :( .
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Well... my personal problems with the powers that be seemed appropriate to post on a cacophony forum.
uh... US Postal Service: (To my impression) Addressing sagging business by cutting the highest demand and most lucritive services.
Local County Commissioners: (To my impression) Recently threw piles of public money at boosting county inferstructure via a scandelous and completely flopped county funded business park... and are now looking at ways to reduce expenses (4 years into an economic slup)... (after seemingly "new pick-up trucks all around" and seemingly all other imaginable improvements for the "working" environments hit a point of diminished returns of disposing of cash) by ripping out a well traveled public road that the county has spent zero (by outward observations) to "maintain" for decades... and screwing up by publically posting their decision to do so a couple of weeks before the legally mandated public hearing to garner public opinion before making their decision.
I remember years ago... I woke up out of a dead sleep (slumped on the steering wheel of my truck) after doing stage production for the wrap-up party for the election following media corp on the eve of the 2000 general election. I was dreaming a very realistic seeming event of a group of folks feverously jamming cash through a shredder in-order to stuff the shredded cash into my confetti cannon... so I could push the button and have the confetti cannon blast millions at a time in shredded cash out to shower the crowd... and the nightmare portion of the dream was that the promoters were frustrated with my confetti cannon because the cannon's capacity to blast all the excess cash to oblivion was not meeting their expectations.
Somehow... that dream keeps coming to the forefront every so-often.
RoadRanger:
I'm always reminded of the ex-Soviet Bloc country that sent all their printed currency in to be converted to toilet paper as it was worth more as that than currency. Unfortunately I suspect I'll live to see that here and even more unfortunately my three kids will for sure.
Hereabouts I've been unable to discover any small business it makes sense to get into - the government overhead ends up making your net per hour about what you can make at McDonald's at best (with a lot less hassles). I'd love to buy or open up a decent music venue but the numbers don't make sense even before you factor in the risk. Thus proving the popular notion that all small venue owners are nuts :( .
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