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4 minutes ago, GlennWest said:
Our awning is an A&E unit. The one with the exspensive motor. It goes out good usually. Coming in is the problem. Goes a few feet and stops. let it cool and go a few more feet until it in. Any tiosd on this.
When I had the same problem, the issue was the controller, not the motor.
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On 8/5/2019 at 8:26 PM, Nancy kurimay said:
We only have this problem in hot weather!!! Have replaced cables twice. Any thoughts?
Do you have the older Slimline-5 converted to SWM? That is what we have, and during hot weather the SWM-8 switch over heats and we get the "no connection to antenna" or something like that.
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Just now, Carlos said:
The military has nothing to do with this, and you know it. There's no right to keep and bear in the military, and nothing about the second amendment has anything to do with the military. But you know that.
Oh, what does the first part of the 2nd say? There is a right to keep and bear arms in the military.
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Just now, Carlos said:
Because they incorrectly assumed that every rational and intelligent person would know that buying and selling are an intrinsic part of "keeping" which is also a component of "bearing." Nobody had any idea at that time what contortions anti-gunners would make of plain and simple language.
Not true. As I said before "keep and bear arms" describes exactly the way it is in the military.
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2 minutes ago, cactus said:
Could not agree more
Regardless of the anti-gunners
So why do you believe that the writers of the 2nd use the terms, "keep and bear", and didnt use the terms, buy, sell, trade or give away?
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14 minutes ago, Carlos said:
Keeping and bearing is exactly the very definition of owning. The other three are different, required components of bearing.
Not so. When in the military(such as a well regulated militia) you can "keep and bear arms", but you dont own the "arms" you are "keeping and bearing", and you are not allowed to sell, trade, or give away these "arms."
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Are these the same bottles that are stored and sold inside such stores as Walmart?
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1 hour ago, Kirk W said:
This is difficult to understand. If I understand, USPS increased the number of managers who do not deliver any mail while decreasing the number of mail carriers, and by doing so, they now deliver mail on more routes with fewer total employees and less overtime?
They didnt decrease mail carriers, but they didnt hire enough new carriers, and so there is a lot of overtime, and into the evening deliveries. Carriers are being micro managed more than ever before. Most of the reduction in over all total employees is in the clerk and mail handler craft, mostly achieved by automation.
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12 hours ago, Kirk W said:
We lived on a rural route for the past 8 years and see absolutely no reason for routine mail, including the "last mile" deliveries would need daily delivery. We are only talking about 1 day. Of course, closing small town post offices and cutting deliveries on rural routes would also mean fewer postal employees, which could cause pressure on Congress again via the employee organizations.
EDIT: The same action for urban routes would make this a very significant savings.
If virtually everyone on a rural or city route would agree that they dont need daily delivery, it would probably happen.
Last I heard the USPS had reduced its workforce from around 700,000 down to around 500,000, but his was a couple of years ago. They have done this while adding thousands of rural and city routes.
One thing I observed when I was still working for the USPS was when the money crunch started as more routes were added, instead of hiring more people for the routes reduce over time and people getting their mail at 8:00 at night the USPS hired more managers to drive what workers they had harder.
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2 hours ago, Chalkie said:
I have been mulling this statement over. First, why is the USPS providing "last mile" service to these other carriers? It is not because the carriers are throwing USPS a bone, it is because the that last mile is not profitable to those carriers. So if it is not profitable to them, is it really profitable to the USPS? As to Amazon, Amazon Logistics is now delivering 50% of all Amazon deliveries and that number is growing constantly. Amazon's goal is to deliver 100% of orders through its own system which will cut off that revenue stream to the USPS.
"Last mile" service by the USPS works for these other carriers because the USPS is required to deliver to "every address, every day". As far as the USPS making a profit on "last mile" delivery, as I said before it is the United States Postal Service, not the USP Business!
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Just now, sandsys said:
Our boxes had the postal carrier side open towards the street so we had to maintain a path around back for residents to pick up our mail. Were yours like that?
Some were, others were in the middle of a cement slab.
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1 hour ago, sandsys said:
I really liked having those neighborhood group boxes where we used to live--in part because they had two big boxes in each group in which the carrier could leave packages by putting the key to that box in your private box. That worked well.
Linda
Central Box Units are becoming more common. The one thing I didnt like about them was that you had to get out of your vehicle to service them, and with the door open while loading in the mail on windy days you had to be careful that mail didnt blow out of one of the slots you had put mail in, while putting mail in the others. I did like the parcel lockers, but a lot of the time there were not enough lockers for the number of parcels you had.
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1 hour ago, Kirk W said:
And split up rural routes to every other day deliveries. Half of the route on Monday, Wednesday, & Friday while the other half gets mail on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
That might work on a route where there is not a lot of mail,no businesses, or no Amazon deliveries, or FedEX, UPS, DHL, or one of the many services that the USPS provides "last mile" service.
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Just now, Kirk W said:
Where is it that they are paying this money? I have tired to find out more about it but can find no evidence in my searches. Can you share a link to such information?
https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/financials/annual-reports/fy2010/ar2010_4_002.htm
https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it/
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Just now, Randyretired said:
We could argue about the benefits that USPS is required to pay like most private firms but it is a non subject as they have NOT paid it for the past few years. As the Post Office goes into the red Congress has been "LOANING' and gifting them money to survive. Since this money is used for daily expenses just to survive no one would logically believe it will be paid back. The money, tax payer dollars; Congress is planning to forward to USPS to hopefully survive the next 2 years is more than the total revenue they will bring in this year, or next year or the total revenue they brought in last year. There are other breaks that USPS gets that would cost private firms billions of dollars. Returning USPS to even break even will not be simple.
No other entity is required to pay for retiree benefits so far in advance. How much has the Government been loaning or gifting the USPS?
Also, there is a difference between private businesses and the USPS as he USPS is in the Constitution.
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Just now, Randyretired said:
Congress is drafting legislation to give USPS $25 billion and forgive another $11 billion in loans and allow them to borrow another $15 billion. There is virtually no chance these will be paid back. Unless that money grew on trees it IS taxpayer dollars. The mandate that USPS be self sustaining is a joke.
The USPS has been self sustaining since 1970, and still would be had it not been for the requirement that it pay about $6 billion per year for future retiree benefits that no other entity is required to pay. Currently the USPS has paid enough for future retirees that arent even born yet!
Also, as I have said between the Postal Rate Commission and the Postal Board of Governors limiting increases in the prices of services and limiting adding new services has prevented the USPS from having the necessary income to prosper.
Change these two things and the USPS will once again prosper.
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1 hour ago, Rover said:
This is a common misconception. The Postal Service receives NO TAX DOLLARS. They are mandated to be self sustaining via postal rates and services. That is why the requirement to prefund the health and retirement accounts are such a burden and particularly unfair when said requirement is not placed on any other agency.
Vicki
Well said! Then when you have the Postal Rate Commission deny rate increases, or if the Postal Rate Commission approves a rate increase, and then the Postal Board of Governors reject the rate increase, the squeeze is on, and then when there is a shortfall in income USPS haters then say look, the USPS is losing money, and needs to be privatized.
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Just now, sandsys said:
Either the post office is a government service or it isn't. If the government no longer want to take responsibility, why are they allowed to interfere with it's operation?
Linda
The USPS is a government service. It is not that the government wants to take any responsibility for it, the issue is that there is some in the government that want to destroy it, and others who want to keep it.
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Just now, Kirk W said:
I do agree with this part of your response. It is far more than just retirement funding that Congress requires. Congress is the reason that there is still 6 day/week mail deliveries, the reason that so many small, under used offices stay open, and a long list of other edicts which make it impossible for the USPS to operate within the income that they have. We need them, but Congress should stop blocking them from making good business decisions.
I too, would like to see a lot of these small post offices closed, but when the USPS wants to close them, the customers of that office complain to their Federal elected representatives, and these representatives represent their constituents by keeping these offices open.
Another drag on the USPS is the Board of Governors, and the Postal Rate Commission which are staffed by political appointees. It doesnt take much imagination to see how these people can cause havoc with postal economic viability. If a person on the Rate Commission wants to USPS to fail, they simply veto any rate increases. You get a majority of like minded people on the Rate Commission and havoc ensues.
The problem with eliminating six day delivery is that the mail doesnt stop because they dont shut down the transportation of mail, and the sorting of mail, so as it is now, Mondays are really busy, and if Monday is a holiday, Tuesdays can be over whelming, so if no Saturday delivery, followed by a Monday holiday, on Tuesday, you have three days mail!
I have said for years, if he USPS is no longer needed, simply set a date, and close it up, but what we see now is people who want to starve it to death, and then say it died of natural causes.
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Just now, Kirk W said:
Isn't' it just a little bit ironic that on the date we are usually expected to file our taxes, many of us receive a direct deposit from the IRS? ...
You dont believe this is just coincidental do you?
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It is $1.53 her in Alamogordo and $1.18 in Ankeny Iowa.
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We are in a private campground in Alamogordo, and we noticed on our daily walk around the park yesterday that all of the empty spaces had been blocked off. Occupancy is way above 25%. Hopefully, they wont kick us out to get to the 25% limit as we are paid up through the end of the month.
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We are in a private campground in Alamogordo, NM and noticed on our walk around the campground this evening that all empty spaces were blocked off. Evidently they are not letting any new people in.
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20 minutes ago, Dapperdan said:
We have one, it works as advertised. My experience has been, your hot spot or your phone does need to be close to the indoor antenna but you od get the signal boost! I like mine, we have the unit you're looking at.
Dan
What make and model do you have?
awning motor
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Yes.