Postal Quotes

#1. Or, if the Sun wrote it, Poofter Plumber goes Postal in Potter's Bar.

J.L. Merrow

#2. Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances.

John Battelle

#3. The U.S. Postal Service should hire him for an ad campaign. If he were at the mailbox every time you sent a letter, no one would use email ever again.

Cara Lynn Shultz

#4. The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.

Pat Paulsen

#5. National Health Insurance means combining the efficiency of the Postal Service with the compassion of the I.R.S ... and the cost accounting of the Pentagon.

Louis Sullivan

#6. A federal court has ruled that the U.S. Postal Service must reduce its stamp prices. The change in stamp prices is expected to affect as many as seven Americans.

Conan O'Brien

#7. The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.

Elizabeth Warren

#8. Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

Lance Armstrong

#9. I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

Fredrik Bajer

#10. The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.

Ben Gibbard

#11. The organization of the Soviet Union was directly modeled on that of the German postal service.

David Graeber

#12. More than an actor, I am a performer ... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

Shah Rukh Khan

#13. Golf is the loneliest of games, not excluding postal chess.

Peter Dobereiner

#14. Postal service of today is far removed from that of 30 years ago when reform was last enacted.

John M. McHugh

#15. Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

Herodotus

#16. Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.

Heinrich Boll

#17. Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

Bob Garfield

#18. Sometimes life is slow life a postal system and sometimes fast like a mail.

Lovely Goyal

#19. My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.

Uwe Boll

#20. The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.

Joe Baca

#21. The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.

Joe Baca

#22. If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

Grover Cleveland

#23. After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate.

Vin Weber

#24. There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.

Bernie Sanders

#25. -Why do you live in hotels?
-It simplifies postal matters, it eliminates the nuisance of private ownership, it confirms me in my favorite habit
the habit of freedom.

Vladimir Nabokov

#26. [Airmail was] an impractical sort of fad, and had no place in the serious job of postal transportation.

Paul Henderson

#27. The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.

Joe Baca

#28. In last year's local elections in Manchester a third of those who voted did so by post. It's not just that people are choosing to get postal votes, but having one makes it much more likely that they'll vote.

Lucy Powell

#29. With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans who don't have basic banking services because there are almost no banks or bank branches in their neighborhoods.

Elizabeth Warren

#30. As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

Bernie Sanders

#31. The United States Postal Service has a problem. People aren't sending as much mail as they used to. That means less postage revenue and difficulty paying the bills.

Matthew Yglesias

#32. There's some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.

Don Novello

#33. It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.

Bernie Sanders

#34. At the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year period, 75 years of future retiree health benefits.

Bernie Sanders

#35. On the strength of strong public support, I will have (the postal reform bills) passed within this session,

Junichiro Koizumi

#36. Anyone wishing to buy the film rights for a rather large sum can contact my publisher and anyone wishing to put me in the top 100 wealthiest people in the UK, please send cheques or Postal Orders to me care of my publisher.

James Berryman

#37. The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.

Bernie Sanders

#38. Dean is a doctor but he acts more like a postal worker!

Jay Leno

#39. Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our common property. There is nobody's name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It's not copywritten.

Utah Phillips

#40. Startled, I flinched "What are you doing?"
"Keeping you from going postal."
"You're doing it wrong.

L.B. Gregg

#41. Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct it. How, for instance, can one compare a socialized post office with private postal delivery when the latter has been outlawed?

Leonard Read

#42. There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.

Noam Chomsky

#43. For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

Jon Bon Jovi

#44. Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

Henry Rollins

#45. Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.

John M. McHugh

#46. Modernizing the postal service was particularly important for the soldiers, who relied on letters, newspapers, and magazines from home to sustain morale.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#47. Let the perfectionist play postal.

Yasser Seirawan

#48. Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical,

Junichiro Koizumi

#49. I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was the right thing,

Junichiro Koizumi

#50. The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

John Sununu

#51. The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

Diane Watson

#52. E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.

Anne Fadiman

#53. Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax. Oh, good timing. What genius came up with this promotion? What's next - a ticking alarm clock? Let's put that in a box.

Jay Leno

#54. I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.

Billy Koch

#55. I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.

Susan Orlean

#56. Only an academic could state the obvious and pass it off as wisdom." -Moist Von Lipwig (T.P., Going Postal)

Terry Pratchett

#57. If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.

Leon Botstein

#58. But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.

John M. McHugh

#59. Magic, the trick that connects the ordinary to the impossible, was the invisible river that ran through every street and beating heart in Bombay in those years, and nothing, from the postal service to the pleading of beggars, worked without a measure of it.

Gregory David Roberts

#60. And that noise! It was enough to make that happy mailman on Mr. Rogers go postal!

Christopher Golden

#61. You and I should do whatever we can to keep our youthful joy alive. If your life is too predictable, don't go postal. Take a ridiculous ride back to whatever it was that gave you joy as a child. Jump on a trampoline. Saddle up a pony. Give adulthood a rest.

Nick Vujicic

#62. And like most of her peers, Barbara Ann has a French postal worker's sense of divine entitlement when it comes to her hours.

Rob Reid

#63. Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent to him! From childhood onward, human beings seem to be characterized by thanklessness.

Robert E.Lee

#64. There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.

Joe Jamail

#65. Pretty show, but you're wasting energy and time," Max said. "Mind if we get back to saving Horngate? You can go postal later.

Diana Pharaoh Francis

#66. Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once too often.

Andrew Vachss

#67. Despite his image as a bloody tyrant, Genghis was also forward thinking. His empire had the first international postal system, invented the concept of diplomatic immunity, and even allowed women in its councils. But more importantly, the Mongols were also unprecedented in their religious tolerance.

James Rollins

#68. We have been flooded with postal cards from all over the United States and several parallel universes. Just a quick glance though these cards is enough to remind you why this great nation, despite all the talk of decline, still leads the world in tranquilizer consumption.

Dave Barry

#69. I curse when I get really upset. Letting off steam that way makes me feel a little bit better. I've been through a lot, but I have never had the urge to go postal. I thank fuck for that.

Oliver Markus

#70. Prevent postal investigators from aggressively interfering with, or closing, a commercial enterprise merely because it has been deemed not to adhere to the prevailing body of scientific opinion - whatever they have determined that to be.

Vin Weber

#71. The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

Richard J. Needham

#72. Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to Conference, where we can resolve any outstanding issues and make this postal reform reality - for the Postal Service and for all Americans.

John M. McHugh

#73. But if someone calls me 'poor thing' one more time, I may go postal and kill everyone around me. Except children and dogs. And old people. And you. And Connor. Fine, I won't kill anyone. But it's driving me crazy.

Kristan Higgins

#74. Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry.

Rick Falkvinge

#75. Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by anybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters-I think that shows the mood of the movie.

Uwe Boll

#76. Never promise to do the possible. Anyone could do the possible. You should promise to do the impossible, because sometimes the impossible was possible, if you could find the right way, and at least you could often extend the limits of the possible. And if you failed, well, it had been impossible.

Terry Pratchett

#77. That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart.

Terry Pratchett

#78. There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

Terry Pratchett

#79. You know how to pray, don't you? Just put your hands together and hope.

Terry Pratchett

#80. Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

Terry Pratchett