Amazon gets the Postal Service to do Sunday deliveries.

And WaPo calls it "Amazon’s brilliant plan to rescue the Postal Service and disrupt the shipping industry."

Amazon could have offered to pay the Postal Service for carrying more of its packages generally, and USPS would have gotten a much-needed injection of cash....

By launching Sunday deliveries, the Postal Service has moved to where its longtime competitors aren't. Hardly anybody in any industry delivers on Sunday, with the exception of newspapers. As a business idea....

The other reason it's disruptive? This is one of the few cases we've seen of what we'll call reverse contracting — when the private sector hires a government agency to fill its need rather than the other way around. 

This might be a good place to remind you of the brilliance of the Amazon Associates Program, which lets you make a cost-free contribution to writers like me. (The "shop Amazon" link is always at the top of this blog in the banner.)

"I get mail twice a day, once from the mailman and once from the neighbors putting mail in the right boxes."

A wisecrack by rhhardin in such perfect one-liner-joke form that I had to Google to see if it was an old joke, even though it's not believable that rh would copy and paste some comedian's old joke.

But if it were some old comedian's old joke, which old comedian would it be?
	Lenny Bruce
	George Carlin
	Garrison Keillor
	George Burns
	Red Skelton
	Charley Weaver
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No more Saturday mail.

Do you care that Saturday mail is gone?
	Yes, why is my world changing?
	Yes, it symbolizes American decline.
	No, paper mail is mostly a waste, and nothing matters about Saturday.
	No, Saturday mail was a make-work scheme for public employment.
	I don't care enough to pick one of those options.
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