“Mail Ego”

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-07-19-postmaster--mail-delivery_n.htm?csp=hf

The U.S. Postmaster General is trying to get Congress to allow the Postal Service to cut Saturday mail delivery due to budget issues and a fall-off in mail.  Experts predict a continued drop in paper mail by 2015, when the only thing still being mailed will be everybody in America’s unemployment checks.

Five-day-a-week mail delivery will give the post office more time to bend your photos and tear your checks.

It also means you won’t be able to throw those bills you can’t pay in the trash until Monday.

So far, the only person who seems bothered by a possible delay in weekend mail is Ted Kaszinsky.

“Signs of the Times”

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-10-21-road-signs-all-caps-lowercase_N.htm
The Federal Highway Administration is requiring all cities and towns to replace street signs with all capital letters with upper and lowercase signs by the year 2015. The problem with the all-caps signs is that everyone thinks their GPS satellite photos are yelling at them.

This new government regulation may be irrelevant. Not only are many towns too cash-strapped to make new signs, it’s expected that by 2015, everyone in America will be illiterate anyway.

The government says they want to make the signs easier for everyone to read. Kids in public schools were hoping that would mean all streets would just get shorter names.