Bah, Humbug!

SamIam · 11-19-2009, 10:05 AM

No, Virginia, there is no longer a Santa Claus. He has become a child molester – at least as far as the Post office is concerned.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Starry-eyed children writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season likely won't get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers.

The U.S. Postal Service is dropping a popular national program begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of North Pole, where volunteers open and respond to thousands of letters addressed to Santa each year. Replies come with North Pole postmarks.

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/..._mail_canceled

xoxoxoBruce · 11-19-2009, 10:25 AM

It's Obama's fault, part of his secret Islamic agenda to ruin Christmas.

Shawnee123 · 11-19-2009, 10:42 AM

Why aren't more people outraged?

classicman · 11-19-2009, 11:55 AM

Cuz they're intoxicated

TheMercenary · 11-19-2009, 01:32 PM

Caus it really was Bush's fault. Everyone knows that.

Pie · 11-19-2009, 01:54 PM

RTFA... They're not cancelling the program, just making it harder for convicted sex offenders to get the child's name and address. Alaska is not willing to comply.

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Last year, a postal worker in Maryland recognized an Operation Santa volunteer there as a registered sex offender. The postal worker interceded before the individual could answer a child’s letter, but the Postal Service viewed the episode as a big enough scare to tighten rules in such programs nationwide.
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The Postal Service began restricting its policies in such programs in 2006, including requiring volunteers to show identification.
But the Maryland incident involving the sex offender prompted additional changes, even forcing the agency to briefly suspend the Operation Santa program last year in New York and Chicago.
The agency now prohibits volunteers from having access to children’s family names and addresses, said spokeswoman Sue Brennan. The Postal Service instead redacts the last name and addresses on each letter and replaces the addresses with codes that match computerized addresses known only to the post office — and leaves it up to individual post offices if they want to go through the time-consuming effort to shield the information.
Anchorage-based agency spokeswoman Pamela Moody said dealing with the tighter restrictions is not feasible in Alaska.

classicman · 11-19-2009, 02:39 PM

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Anchorage-based agency spokeswoman Pamela Moody said dealing with the tighter restrictions is not feasible in Alaska.

Why not? What the heck else do they have to do up there? Go to Palin rallies?

ZenGum · 11-19-2009, 05:58 PM

This seems whacky to me.

Since when do pedophiles need to infiltrate the postal service to get a child's name and address? There are children running about all over the place. If some sick prick wants to stalk and/or abduct one, there must be scads of ways to go about it. Shit, in some places you can buy them.

Of course, the guys who wear the red suit in the shopping malls should be carefully checked and monitored.

spudcon · 11-19-2009, 06:14 PM

The Post Office is going broke, it can't afford any more employees to remove addresses from the letters that a pervert volunteer might see. Only postal employees are free of perversions.

ZenGum · 11-19-2009, 06:46 PM

Yeah ... postal employees have a great reputation for emotional and psychological health.

Recently laid-off ex-employees, now that's another story.

xoxoxoBruce · 11-20-2009, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by classicman

Why not? What the heck else do they have to do up there? Go to Palin rallies?

The restrictions are separating the name & address from the letter, and giving it a code number, then matching the name and address with the reply letter by computer. Complicated, time consuming, expensive, and in my opinion, of dubious value.

Cicero · 11-20-2009, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

Yeah ... postal employees have a great reputation for emotional and psychological health.

Recently laid-off ex-employees, now that's another story.

Yeah, didn't Charles Bukowski work for the postal service? A model citizen if there ever were...

xoxoxoBruce · 11-20-2009, 06:22 AM

That's because they get so many ex-military. Especially the ones the military have cut loose, because they're too scary.

11-19-2009, 10:25 AM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	It's Obama's fault, part of his secret Islamic agenda to ruin Christmas. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-19-2009, 10:42 AM	#3
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Why aren't more people outraged? __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

11-19-2009, 11:55 AM	#4
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Cuz they're intoxicated __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

11-19-2009, 01:32 PM	#5
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Caus it really was Bush's fault. Everyone knows that. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

11-19-2009, 05:58 PM	#8
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	This seems whacky to me. Since when do pedophiles need to infiltrate the postal service to get a child's name and address? There are children running about all over the place. If some sick prick wants to stalk and/or abduct one, there must be scads of ways to go about it. Shit, in some places you can buy them. Of course, the guys who wear the red suit in the shopping malls should be carefully checked and monitored. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

11-19-2009, 06:14 PM	#9
spudcon Beware of potatoes Join Date: May 2007 Location: Upstate NY, USA Posts: 2,078	The Post Office is going broke, it can't afford any more employees to remove addresses from the letters that a pervert volunteer might see. Only postal employees are free of perversions. __________________ "I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

11-19-2009, 06:46 PM	#10
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Yeah ... postal employees have a great reputation for emotional and psychological health. Recently laid-off ex-employees, now that's another story. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

11-20-2009, 06:22 AM	#13
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	That's because they get so many ex-military. Especially the ones the military have cut loose, because they're too scary. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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