Government inaction

Post office vital

This is a letter regarding the United States Postal Service. I am the first to admit that I do not know how to run a nationwide delivery system, but USPS is an important service to American citizens. I personally feel its importance to be greater than the U.S. military.

When POTUS threatens to terminate the USPS, I feel threatened. This service has been around since before the American Revolution. We all depend on it. The USPS is an institution that should not be threatened with extinction, the service should be respected and not taken for granted. It is non-negotiable, we all depend and rely on our mail people to provide us with our correspondence, our bills, and more.

Whatever the cost, the USPS should not be allowed to die. We as citizens should all support the U.S. mail as being a human right, not some disposable institution that has outlived its usefulness.

With the SARS CoV-2 on the loose, we’ve been homebound, and very lucky to say that. My wife and children have a home to shelter. We are thankful of that every day.

I want to thank our mail carriers for doing what they do and hope they continue doing so. We need this service and appreciate it. Do not let the USPS fail.

Double meanings Robert Toland Hamden

If a federal employee has a work issue that cannot be fairly decided through management, recourse is provided through the Merit Systems Protection Board. This is the federal administrative court system designed to give an intelligent, independent response through the presentation of information by the employee and employer. It was established in 1979 because politics and partisanship were rearing their ugly heads.

Now it is 41 years later and the politicians of this country have destroyed the final process completely. There are almost 3 million federal employees plus military, and none of them can have a work-related issue brought to the MSPB. This is the state of government totally harassing its own workforce. The Congress and Senate cannot approve any judges to the three members board, and almost 3,000 cases are waiting for final adjudication. What kind of government acts in this manner?

Wen Zhong Hamden

Lewis Carroll, author of “Alice in Wonderland,” portrays Humpty Dumpty as a portmanteau thinker. Groucho Marx, a comedian of fame in the past century, and Humpty Dumpty’s symbolic deportment summarizes, in an egg shell, the past three years of Washington politics. The Mueller investigation was full of portmanteau “Jabberwocky,” which is, two meanings packed into one, searching for the truth. Looking at Groucho Marx’s definition of politics is sobering: “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” The Mueller Report bears resemblance to a Don Quixote windmill attack and what Shakespeare’s Puck might utter, “Lord what fools these mortals be.”

Edward J. Struzinsky Branford