They're always looking for the magic solution that will somehow turn all the students and their school scores around. I mean, you know, without actually having better teachers who are more accountable or anything.
Exactly. Get some paper and a pen out and go dig through your local paper. Remove the ads, the bullshit "Metro" and "Living" and "Sports" and "Weather" sections. Scratch out the comics and classifieds. Scratch out all of the re-printed AP stories. Now, slice out most of the Business section which is just shallow repeats of what is already elsewhere. Same for the National/World news stuff.
I sure as fuck watch what I say online, now. I don't make the assumption that anyone would understand (or care) that even my most absurd comments are for humor, satire, or even just the sake of absurdity.
Quite simply, Bin Laden made it clear that he wanted to facilitate attacks that would force America to spend itself into oblivion and to completely eradicate our way of life.
He has accomplished both - with the assistance of idiots like the original poster, who is willing to just throw away every fundamental value and freedom of our society, just because some people died in a horrible and tragic event.
OH NOES YOU GUISE! Someone died! Throw away the constitution! Issue a curfew! Put military with automatic rifles on every corner of every American street! Stick video cameras in every home! Force mental health evaluation on an annual basis!
They also didn't promise not to lock him away forever or disappear him.
And the US government's promises are worth less than a pile of feces. They were not supposed to allow the NSA or CIA to spy on our own citizens, for example. Or abridge the right of free speech. Now everything is monitored in real time, the IRS is targeting political activists or opponents, and you have to be locked into fenced-in "free speech zones" at events, in order to exercise free speech.
I'm not, because I'm busy celebrating the following in July:
Air-Conditioning Appreciation Days (7/3 to 8/15), Bereaved Parents Awareness Month, Bioterrorism/Disaster Education & Awareness Month, Cell Phone Courtesy Month, Dog Days (7/3 to 8/11), Eggplant and Lettuce Month , Family Reunion Month,Family Golf Month , Freedom From Fear of Speaking Month , Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness Month , Herbal/Prescription Awareness Month, International Blondie and Deborah Harry Month, International Group B Strep Awareness Month , International Women with Alopecia Month, International Zine Month, Mango and Melon Month , National Black Family Month, National Blueberries Month, National Child-Centered Divorce Month , National "Doghouse Repairs" Month, National Grilling Month, National Ice Cream Month, National Horseradish Month, National Hot Dog Month, National Independent Retailers Month, National Make A Difference to Children Month, National Recreation & Parks Month, National Share A Sunset With Your Lover Month , National Wheelchair Beautification Month, Nectarine and Garlic Month , Sandwich Generation Month, Share A Sunset With Your Lover Month , Smart Irrigation Month, Social Wellness Month, Tour de France Month (Started 6/30 - 7/19?), Women's Motorcycle Month, Women With Alopecia Month, Worldwide Bereaved Parents Month, National Education Association Week, National Unassisted Homebirth Week, Beans and Bacon Days, Freedom Week, International Chicken Wing Week, Be Nice To New Jersey Week, Creative Maladjustment Week, National Farriers Week, Nude Recreation Weekend, Everybody Deserves A Massage Week, Sports Cliché Week, Rabbit Week, National Baby Food Week, National Ventriloquism Week, Comic Con International, Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week, National Scrabble Week, National Parenting Gifted Children Week, Captive Nations Week, National Independent Retailers Week, National Zoo Keeper Week, World Lumberjack Championships, Garlic Days, Single Working Women's Week, AFRMA Fancy Rat & Mouse Week, Canada Day: 1, National GSA Employee Day: 1, Second Half of The Year Day: 1, U.S. Postage Stamp Day: 1, Zip Code Day: 1, I Forgot Day: 2, Made In The USA Day: 2, World UFO Day: 2 , Compliment Your Mirror Day: 3, Stay Out Of The Sun Day; 3, Boom Box Parade Day: 4, Fourth of July or Independence Day: 4, Independence From Meat Day: 4, Indivisible Day: 4, Bikini Day: 5, Earth at Aphelion: 5, International Chicken Wing Day: 5 (First Day of Chicken Wing Week), Rosewell UFO Days: 5-7 , Hop A Park Day: 6 (First Saturday), International Chicken Wing Society Cook-off Day: 6-8,International Cherry Pit Spitting Day: 6 (First Saturday), International Kissing Day or World Kiss Day: 6 , International Day of Cooperatives: 6 (First Saturday), Take Your Webmaster to Lunch Day: 6, Chocolate Day: 7 , Father-Daughter Take A Walk Together Day: 7, Global Forgiveness Day: 7 , Tell The Truth Day: 7, Math 2.0 Day: 8 (Founding Day) , SCUD Day (Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama): 8, International Town Criers Day: 8 (Second Monday), Martyrdom of The Bab: 9, Ramadan: 9, Clerihew Day: 10, Don't Step On A Bee Day: 10, Hot Dog Night: 10, Piña Colada Day: 10 , Teddy Bears' Picnic Day: 10 , Bowdler's Day: 11, Cheer Up The Lonely Day: 11, Day of The Five Billion: 11 , National Rainier Cherries Day: 11 , Slurpee Day: 11 , World Population Day: 11, Chick-fil-A's Cow Appreciation Day: 12 [2nd Friday] Dress Like a cow and get free sandwich! , Collector Car Appreciation Day: 12 (2nd Friday) , Simplicity Day: 12 , Bald Is In: 13 (Second Saturday), Carver Day: 13 (Second Saturday), Embrace Your Geekness Day: 13, Gruntled Workers Day: 13, Wayne Chicken Day: 13 (Second Saturday), National French Fries Day: 13 , Grange Day: 13 (Second Saturday), International Nude Day: 14 , Be A Dork Day: 15 , Global Hug Your Kid Day: 15 (Third Monday), Gummi Worm Day: 15 , National Get Out of the Doghouse Day: 15 (Third Monday), Saint Swithin's Day: 15 , Tish B'Av: 15, Wrong Way Corrigan Day:
Exactly this. Why in the hell would I want to share my set of interests with other websites?
I mean, I'm a middle aged American male. I like porn, videogames, and technology. That's hardly a secret and I don't care that some people know it -- but there's something sort of gross about just handing it over to some entity so they can better monetize me. Especially when I'm just old enough to still remember a time when people did shit on the internet for the sake of doing it or even back in the BBS days when sysops would pay tons of money and spend tons of their own time building communities and services just for the sake of helping people and offering services. Money be damned.
Now, every mommy-blogger and twitter-user absolutely has to plaster ads everywhere and make two pennies off the twelve people that visit their blog every few weeks.
I'm all about capitalism and competition surfacing from the free marketplace . . . and if your service has value to me, I'll be glad to pay a little for it if you give me a the option . . . but there is just something particularly off-putting about constantly being eye-spammed and tracked (or not, even) and monetized every second you are online.
Did Tor ever get any better? I tried using it many (ten?) years ago and while I appreciated the concept, it was miserable in practice. It literally took minutes for a page of text to load or for a single little button icon to load. I don't think I ever let an entire page load before I just finally gave up and uninstalled it.
This doesn't make sense. Since when does the USPS gaurantee the date of a delivery? USPS will deliver it to you on Saturday if it happens to be there to deliver to you on Saturday. UPS and FedEx will actually deliver it on saturday if that is the day you want it there. Also, while it is probably a steep charge if you are sending something to your mom across the country that MUST arrive on Saturday (can't be Friday and can't be the next Monday), I get shit delivered all the damn time from Amazon via UPS and FedEx on Saturday and I don't have to pay a dime for it.
On top of that, they have a meaningful tracking system that actually works, too.
First, those community parcel boxes are small as shit. Nice if you're getting a pair of shoes delivered. Useless for the majority of things. Second, even if they did have a community parcel box big enough for the rest of the stuff, do you really enjoy having to haul it back to the house from however many blocks it might be? Finally, it is irrelevant, because those parcel boxes are only for the use of the USPS; not UPS or FedEx.
I guess having a locked-up box down the street might be fine for you, if you live in some weird war-torn ghetto where you have to bring a small firearm with you when you go to retrieve your mail, but even in this heavily populated area with a lot of traffic, I have not had a single one of my hundreds of deliveries left on my doorstep or window well stolen.
Also, community mailbox centers are often enclosed on three sides and have little or no lighting. What a safe feeling place to be standing in the middle of the night! (And the one place where I had one was constantly being broken into and mail being stolen - how's that security?).
When I lived in an apartment complex (with one of those community mailbox things), I had a shitty UPS driver. It was the only time I've ever had bad experiences with UPS or FedEX (who, in my experience are fucking awesome). I would constantly be waiting for deliveries. Often important parts that I needed fairly quickly. Knowing it was going to be there that day and what the daily delivery time in my area tended to be, I'd be up and around waiting in the living room within earshot of the door. I'd wait. And wait. And wait. And wait. And wait.
Eventually, I'd give up. I would go check online and it would say "ATTEMPTED DELIVERY; RECIPIENT NOT HOME; LEFT NOTE ON DOOR".
Bullshit.
No note. Nobody ever knocked on the door. Nobody ever tried. They were just too fucking lazy and would rather claim they tried, until the three times ran up and I had to go pick it up in the local distribution center.
It was one of the things I hated most about living in apartments and one of the things I love most about buying a home.:)
Agreed. It is always a huge let down when you order something on eBay or Amazon or something and you assume it's coming by UPS or FedEx... only to find that it has been sent by USPS.
Where are you getting packages shipped from that they won't leave them unless you are home? I get dozens (sometimes hundreds) of boxes delivered to my house every year and maybe 5% (if that) require me to sign for them. Those that don't require me to sign for them are just left on the door step (or, if they're a little concerned about stuff being stolen, they stick it in the basement window-well, so it can't be seen from the street).
Lack of package delivery is precisely WHY I hate those fucking community mailbox things.
Mail carriers are often a pretty good set of eyes for keeping a daily check on neighborhoods. They can see if something is off or if someone isn't getting their mail for awhile. Frankly, I kind of like knowing that there is a dude stopping at my door every day who knows my area and knows me. I like it a hell of a lot better than knowing a thousand little shitheads and school kids and identity thieves and meth addicts are passing an arm's reach from my personal and financial things every fucking day.
Who is tossing it? Those community mailboxes fill up fucking FAST. In my old apartment, they filled up (with junkmail, primarily - sometimes also mail for people who don't live at my address) in one or two days. The point is, you have to constantly make trips to that mailbox whether you are expecting something or not. If you do not, then your mailbox will get full and your carrier will stop delivering your mail and when you ARE expecting that piece of mail to be delivered, it won't be - because they have stopped delivering to you.
Calling people lazy fat-asses, because they don't want to add one more fucking obnoxious task to their busy lives is bullshit. If I wanted another pet that I had to maintain on a daily basis, I'd fucking go get one. I don't want a fucking pet mailbox, where I have to go for a walk every day just to empty its shit into the waste basket.
Stop delivering junk mail to my door. Stop delivering mail to my door for the fifteen people that used to live here the past twenty years that I don't even know. Charge me whatever it actually costs to send a piece of mail (of course, in that case, you might as well just be paying UPS or FedEX to send your mail, right?). If it's a buck, cool. If it is two bucks, cool. If it is ten bucks, then I'll just send an email or make a phone call.
Sending a letter for 40 or 50 cents just isn't worth it if the price of doing that is dealing with daily onslaughts of fucking junkmail. Only deliver non-junk-mail to my door and only for people that live at this address and you will probably only have to deliver to my door three to six times per year. And when Is end something in the mail (not even once per year), you will know because you will see, from the street, that my mailbox is lid is closed.
There you go. We have just cut the amount of mail you have to lug around in a bag slung over your shoulders by about 80 to 90 percent and I have cut the number of trips to my house that you have to make by about 97% -- from about 260 per year to maybe 10.
Those cluster mailboxes (like they're talking about doing here and that are in apartment complexes) are fucking useless. You are lucky if you have ones that are big enough that you could stick your entire hand into them. You could probably get two boxes of bank checks delivered to one before it is full, but anything bigger and it'll have to be folded, bent, crammed in there, or just . . . you know . . . kept at the USPS and then YOU get to drive THERE and pick it up.
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They're always looking for the magic solution that will somehow turn all the students and their school scores around. I mean, you know, without actually having better teachers who are more accountable or anything.
Exactly. Get some paper and a pen out and go dig through your local paper. Remove the ads, the bullshit "Metro" and "Living" and "Sports" and "Weather" sections. Scratch out the comics and classifieds. Scratch out all of the re-printed AP stories. Now, slice out most of the Business section which is just shallow repeats of what is already elsewhere. Same for the National/World news stuff.
What you're left with is pretty anorexic.
Yeah, that high quality print-news media. *snort*
With rare exception, traditional print news is as much a joke as 24x7 news channels.
I sure as fuck watch what I say online, now. I don't make the assumption that anyone would understand (or care) that even my most absurd comments are for humor, satire, or even just the sake of absurdity.
And this is exactly what does happen.
Sometimes we commit the acts, ourselves, but on foreign soil. Other times, we have others commit it for us on foreign soil.
Quite simply, Bin Laden made it clear that he wanted to facilitate attacks that would force America to spend itself into oblivion and to completely eradicate our way of life.
He has accomplished both - with the assistance of idiots like the original poster, who is willing to just throw away every fundamental value and freedom of our society, just because some people died in a horrible and tragic event.
OH NOES YOU GUISE! Someone died! Throw away the constitution! Issue a curfew! Put military with automatic rifles on every corner of every American street! Stick video cameras in every home! Force mental health evaluation on an annual basis!
Hey, if they aren't bad guys, we wouldn't be detaining and torturing them in the first place! :P
They also didn't promise not to lock him away forever or disappear him.
And the US government's promises are worth less than a pile of feces. They were not supposed to allow the NSA or CIA to spy on our own citizens, for example. Or abridge the right of free speech. Now everything is monitored in real time, the IRS is targeting political activists or opponents, and you have to be locked into fenced-in "free speech zones" at events, in order to exercise free speech.
Well, youtube doesn't work on the Roku.
I'm not, because I'm busy celebrating the following in July:
Air-Conditioning Appreciation Days (7/3 to 8/15), Bereaved Parents Awareness Month, Bioterrorism/Disaster Education & Awareness Month, Cell Phone Courtesy Month, Dog Days (7/3 to 8/11), Eggplant and Lettuce Month , Family Reunion Month ,Family Golf Month , Freedom From Fear of Speaking Month , Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness Month , Herbal/Prescription Awareness Month, International Blondie and Deborah Harry Month, International Group B Strep Awareness Month , International Women with Alopecia Month, International Zine Month, Mango and Melon Month , National Black Family Month, National Blueberries Month, National Child-Centered Divorce Month , National "Doghouse Repairs" Month, National Grilling Month, National Ice Cream Month, National Horseradish Month, National Hot Dog Month, National Independent Retailers Month, National Make A Difference to Children Month, National Recreation & Parks Month, National Share A Sunset With Your Lover Month , National Wheelchair Beautification Month, Nectarine and Garlic Month , Sandwich Generation Month, Share A Sunset With Your Lover Month , Smart Irrigation Month, Social Wellness Month, Tour de France Month (Started 6/30 - 7/19?), Women's Motorcycle Month, Women With Alopecia Month, Worldwide Bereaved Parents Month, National Education Association Week, National Unassisted Homebirth Week, Beans and Bacon Days, Freedom Week, International Chicken Wing Week, Be Nice To New Jersey Week, Creative Maladjustment Week, National Farriers Week, Nude Recreation Weekend, Everybody Deserves A Massage Week, Sports Cliché Week, Rabbit Week, National Baby Food Week, National Ventriloquism Week, Comic Con International, Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week, National Scrabble Week, National Parenting Gifted Children Week, Captive Nations Week, National Independent Retailers Week, National Zoo Keeper Week, World Lumberjack Championships, Garlic Days, Single Working Women's Week, AFRMA Fancy Rat & Mouse Week, Canada Day: 1, National GSA Employee Day: 1, Second Half of The Year Day: 1, U.S. Postage Stamp Day: 1, Zip Code Day: 1, I Forgot Day: 2, Made In The USA Day: 2, World UFO Day: 2 , Compliment Your Mirror Day: 3, Stay Out Of The Sun Day; 3, Boom Box Parade Day: 4, Fourth of July or Independence Day: 4, Independence From Meat Day: 4, Indivisible Day: 4, Bikini Day: 5, Earth at Aphelion: 5, International Chicken Wing Day: 5 (First Day of Chicken Wing Week), Rosewell UFO Days: 5-7 , Hop A Park Day: 6 (First Saturday), International Chicken Wing Society Cook-off Day: 6-8 ,International Cherry Pit Spitting Day: 6 (First Saturday), International Kissing Day or World Kiss Day: 6 , International Day of Cooperatives: 6 (First Saturday), Take Your Webmaster to Lunch Day: 6, Chocolate Day: 7 , Father-Daughter Take A Walk Together Day: 7, Global Forgiveness Day: 7 , Tell The Truth Day: 7, Math 2.0 Day: 8 (Founding Day) , SCUD Day (Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama): 8, International Town Criers Day: 8 (Second Monday), Martyrdom of The Bab: 9, Ramadan: 9, Clerihew Day: 10, Don't Step On A Bee Day: 10, Hot Dog Night: 10, Piña Colada Day: 10 , Teddy Bears' Picnic Day: 10 , Bowdler's Day: 11, Cheer Up The Lonely Day: 11, Day of The Five Billion: 11 , National Rainier Cherries Day: 11 , Slurpee Day: 11 , World Population Day: 11, Chick-fil-A's Cow Appreciation Day: 12 [2nd Friday] Dress Like a cow and get free sandwich! , Collector Car Appreciation Day: 12 (2nd Friday) , Simplicity Day: 12 , Bald Is In: 13 (Second Saturday), Carver Day: 13 (Second Saturday), Embrace Your Geekness Day: 13, Gruntled Workers Day: 13, Wayne Chicken Day: 13 (Second Saturday), National French Fries Day: 13 , Grange Day: 13 (Second Saturday), International Nude Day: 14 , Be A Dork Day: 15 , Global Hug Your Kid Day: 15 (Third Monday), Gummi Worm Day: 15 , National Get Out of the Doghouse Day: 15 (Third Monday), Saint Swithin's Day: 15 , Tish B'Av: 15, Wrong Way Corrigan Day:
Exactly this. Why in the hell would I want to share my set of interests with other websites?
I mean, I'm a middle aged American male. I like porn, videogames, and technology. That's hardly a secret and I don't care that some people know it -- but there's something sort of gross about just handing it over to some entity so they can better monetize me. Especially when I'm just old enough to still remember a time when people did shit on the internet for the sake of doing it or even back in the BBS days when sysops would pay tons of money and spend tons of their own time building communities and services just for the sake of helping people and offering services. Money be damned.
Now, every mommy-blogger and twitter-user absolutely has to plaster ads everywhere and make two pennies off the twelve people that visit their blog every few weeks.
I'm all about capitalism and competition surfacing from the free marketplace . . . and if your service has value to me, I'll be glad to pay a little for it if you give me a the option . . . but there is just something particularly off-putting about constantly being eye-spammed and tracked (or not, even) and monetized every second you are online.
Did Tor ever get any better? I tried using it many (ten?) years ago and while I appreciated the concept, it was miserable in practice. It literally took minutes for a page of text to load or for a single little button icon to load. I don't think I ever let an entire page load before I just finally gave up and uninstalled it.
This doesn't make sense. Since when does the USPS gaurantee the date of a delivery? USPS will deliver it to you on Saturday if it happens to be there to deliver to you on Saturday. UPS and FedEx will actually deliver it on saturday if that is the day you want it there. Also, while it is probably a steep charge if you are sending something to your mom across the country that MUST arrive on Saturday (can't be Friday and can't be the next Monday), I get shit delivered all the damn time from Amazon via UPS and FedEx on Saturday and I don't have to pay a dime for it.
On top of that, they have a meaningful tracking system that actually works, too.
A few problems, here:
First, those community parcel boxes are small as shit. Nice if you're getting a pair of shoes delivered. Useless for the majority of things. Second, even if they did have a community parcel box big enough for the rest of the stuff, do you really enjoy having to haul it back to the house from however many blocks it might be? Finally, it is irrelevant, because those parcel boxes are only for the use of the USPS; not UPS or FedEx.
I guess having a locked-up box down the street might be fine for you, if you live in some weird war-torn ghetto where you have to bring a small firearm with you when you go to retrieve your mail, but even in this heavily populated area with a lot of traffic, I have not had a single one of my hundreds of deliveries left on my doorstep or window well stolen.
Also, community mailbox centers are often enclosed on three sides and have little or no lighting. What a safe feeling place to be standing in the middle of the night! (And the one place where I had one was constantly being broken into and mail being stolen - how's that security?).
When I lived in an apartment complex (with one of those community mailbox things), I had a shitty UPS driver. It was the only time I've ever had bad experiences with UPS or FedEX (who, in my experience are fucking awesome). I would constantly be waiting for deliveries. Often important parts that I needed fairly quickly. Knowing it was going to be there that day and what the daily delivery time in my area tended to be, I'd be up and around waiting in the living room within earshot of the door. I'd wait. And wait. And wait. And wait. And wait.
Eventually, I'd give up. I would go check online and it would say "ATTEMPTED DELIVERY; RECIPIENT NOT HOME; LEFT NOTE ON DOOR".
Bullshit.
No note. Nobody ever knocked on the door. Nobody ever tried. They were just too fucking lazy and would rather claim they tried, until the three times ran up and I had to go pick it up in the local distribution center.
It was one of the things I hated most about living in apartments and one of the things I love most about buying a home. :)
When I was growing up (not very long ago), we still had this whole thing about "neither rain or sleet nor snow".
Agreed. It is always a huge let down when you order something on eBay or Amazon or something and you assume it's coming by UPS or FedEx... only to find that it has been sent by USPS.
Where are you getting packages shipped from that they won't leave them unless you are home? I get dozens (sometimes hundreds) of boxes delivered to my house every year and maybe 5% (if that) require me to sign for them. Those that don't require me to sign for them are just left on the door step (or, if they're a little concerned about stuff being stolen, they stick it in the basement window-well, so it can't be seen from the street).
Lack of package delivery is precisely WHY I hate those fucking community mailbox things.
Mail carriers are often a pretty good set of eyes for keeping a daily check on neighborhoods. They can see if something is off or if someone isn't getting their mail for awhile. Frankly, I kind of like knowing that there is a dude stopping at my door every day who knows my area and knows me. I like it a hell of a lot better than knowing a thousand little shitheads and school kids and identity thieves and meth addicts are passing an arm's reach from my personal and financial things every fucking day.
God damn. Four hundred miles is a long way to go for mail.
What do you mean "all the junkmail gets tossed"?
Who is tossing it? Those community mailboxes fill up fucking FAST. In my old apartment, they filled up (with junkmail, primarily - sometimes also mail for people who don't live at my address) in one or two days. The point is, you have to constantly make trips to that mailbox whether you are expecting something or not. If you do not, then your mailbox will get full and your carrier will stop delivering your mail and when you ARE expecting that piece of mail to be delivered, it won't be - because they have stopped delivering to you.
Calling people lazy fat-asses, because they don't want to add one more fucking obnoxious task to their busy lives is bullshit. If I wanted another pet that I had to maintain on a daily basis, I'd fucking go get one. I don't want a fucking pet mailbox, where I have to go for a walk every day just to empty its shit into the waste basket.
YES. A thousand times fucking YES.
Stop delivering junk mail to my door.
Stop delivering mail to my door for the fifteen people that used to live here the past twenty years that I don't even know.
Charge me whatever it actually costs to send a piece of mail (of course, in that case, you might as well just be paying UPS or FedEX to send your mail, right?). If it's a buck, cool. If it is two bucks, cool. If it is ten bucks, then I'll just send an email or make a phone call.
Sending a letter for 40 or 50 cents just isn't worth it if the price of doing that is dealing with daily onslaughts of fucking junkmail. Only deliver non-junk-mail to my door and only for people that live at this address and you will probably only have to deliver to my door three to six times per year. And when Is end something in the mail (not even once per year), you will know because you will see, from the street, that my mailbox is lid is closed.
There you go. We have just cut the amount of mail you have to lug around in a bag slung over your shoulders by about 80 to 90 percent and I have cut the number of trips to my house that you have to make by about 97% -- from about 260 per year to maybe 10.
Whatever happened to "neither rain nor sleet nor snow"?
Those cluster mailboxes (like they're talking about doing here and that are in apartment complexes) are fucking useless. You are lucky if you have ones that are big enough that you could stick your entire hand into them. You could probably get two boxes of bank checks delivered to one before it is full, but anything bigger and it'll have to be folded, bent, crammed in there, or just . . . you know . . . kept at the USPS and then YOU get to drive THERE and pick it up.