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Post Office Removes Clocks Instead of Speeding Service
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Um, correct us if we're wrong here but: <P>• People carry timepieces.</p> <P>•The post office is not a casino. People aren't going to lose themselves in the fun and mail more letters than they'd originally intended.</p> <P>Is this the best they can come up with?<SMALL>—MEGHANN MARCO</SMALL></p> <P><A href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/4593179.html?Brilliant">Postal Service fixes long waits by removing clocks</A> [Houston Chronicle]<EM>(Thanks, Jason!)</EM> RELATED: <A href="http://consumerist.com/consumer/banking/bank-bans-clocks-to-confuse-customers-143096.php">Bank Bans Clocks to Confuse Customers</A> (Photo:<A href="http://flickr.com/photos/vogelium/275000325/"> Pro-Zak</A>)</p> <DIV class="postToolsHolder"> <P class="PostTools"> <SPAN> <A href="http://consumerist.com/consumer/usps/us-postal-service-solves-long-waits-by-removing-clocks-from-post-offices-241188.php">45 comments,<SPAN> latest by trai_dep</SPAN></A> <A title="Leave a comment about this post" href="http://consumerist.com/consumer/usps/us-postal-service-solves-long-waits-by-removing-clocks-from-post-offices-241188.php" class="CommentsLink"><IMG border="0" class="Icon" alt="comment icon" src="http://cache.consumerist.com/assets/v2.consumerist.com/img/icons/icon_comments.gif" /></A> </SPAN> <A title="Mail this entry to a friend" href="http://consumerist.com/consumer/usps/us-postal-service-solves-long-waits-by-removing-clocks-from-post-offices-241188.php?mail2=true#mail2friend" class="MailtoLink"><IMG border="0" class="Icon" alt="email icon" src="http://cache.consumerist.com/assets/v2.consumerist.com/img/icons/icon_mail2.gif" /></A> <A title="Views: 11351" href="http://consumerist.com/consumer/usps/us-postal-service-solves-long-waits-by-removing-clocks-from-post-offices-241188.php" class="PermaLink"><IMG border="0" class="Icon" alt="permalink icon" src="http://cache.consumerist.com/assets/v2.consumerist.com/img/icons/icon_permalink.gif" /></A> <A title="Digg This" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://consumerist.com/consumer/usps/us-postal-service-solves-long-waits-by-removing-clocks-from-post-offices-241188.php" class="DiggLink"><IMG border="0" class="Icon" alt="permalink icon" src="http://cache.consumerist.com/assets/v2.consumerist.com/img/icons/icon_digg.gif" /></A> </p> <DIV class="readMore"> read more: <UL class="readMoreList"> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://tags.consumerist.com/consumer/usps/">usps</A>, </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://tags.consumerist.com/consumer/clock/">clock</A>, </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://tags.consumerist.com/consumer/times/">times</A>, </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://tags.consumerist.com/consumer/waiting/">waiting</A></LI> </UL> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/14EF535F-F43B-42F9-945B-6BADA145618B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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