Significant operational adjustments

We hear and notice regularly the slow mail service, postage increases, lack of quantity and importance of our regular daily mail.  Many people are turning to other means of communicating.  All of these issues seem to relate to the huge budget issues faced by the Postal Service. 

It may be time for the Post Office to consider significant operational adjustments in order to fix the budget problems.  They should consider changing their service to three days a week per address with half the addresses receiving mail on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and half the addresses on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.   

What would the savings amount to with this change?  It would span personnel, equipment, payroll, fuel, maintenance, wear and tear on vehicles, and general overhead.  They could save enough to staff their post offices sufficiently that customers don’t have to stand through a 10 person line to talk to a staff member. (without raising postage rates again)  There may be other solutions, but they sure haven’t found them in the past 50 years.

Randall Kouba

Colorado Springs

The price at the pump

Gasoline prices are rising, but today it isn’t just about the price at the pump; it’s also about our nation’s character.

Sometimes I am compelled to just restate the obvious. For example, the intricately woven fabric of the global community resembles a china shop, requiring intentional and delicate diplomacy to effectively function. Our president has acted like a bull in that shop.

I needn’t make a list; it is evident to anyone watching current events. In some this creates a sense of euphoric superiority. But, after time reality will kick in, and we all will suffer the consequences.

Today I heard the president say, “We don’t need anybody!” It was because nobody was coming to his aid. In our early years we all learned many life lessons. For example, reality is not what we wish it to be; ignoring this eventually kicks us in the pants. Chaos is not a viable path forward. Breaking is easy; building is hard, requiring planning, competence, and midcourse correction. Insulting and hurting friends loses friends and creates enemies.

Bullying only motivates those bullied to find ways to hurt us. Bluster is quickly exposed and strengthens defiance. Next November let’s draw on our early life lessons, our common sense, and our nation’s promise to send candidates to congress that will contain our current leadership. It isn’t just all about the price at the pump; it is also about who we are as a nation going forward!

Sam Gould

Divide

Long lines at airports will continue

Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, who represent Colorado, need to put on their big boy pants and put the needs of the American public over those of their political party. Fund Department of Homeland Security and stop playing childish games at the expense of government employees. This is a reprehensible and disgusting action not only for the employees but for the American public.

TSA employees are leaving because they can’t afford to work without pay. But, an unintended consequence of the Democrat shutdown is that when they pull their head out of their you know where and decide to fund DHS , new TSA employees will have to be hired and they will have to be trained, which will take a certain amount of time which could mean the long lines at airports will continue after DHS is funded.

My advice to the politicians is to put country first and stop the “well he started it ” mentality. Congress crated ICE and congress can change it without having to put federal employees in their crosshairs. Pay these hard working employees who keep us safe now!

Barry S. Oswell, LtCol, USAF, (ret)

Colorado Springs

This manifest selfishness

The cartoon by Bill Bramhall of the Tribune News Service published in the Gazette on March 17th motivated me to write this; it demonstrates how twisted and egocentric the left has become despite our being at war with a vicious, vile enemy. I mean, seriously, two characters in this cartoon are complaining their 401K is temporarily declining while they watch our Secretary of War threatening our evil enemy…the enemy that intends to destroy us…with annihilation. Ignored is the fact their 401K value rose by an astounding 17.3% in 2025! Some are actually complaining about paying a dollar per gallon more for gasoline despite the fact we were forced to endure far higher prices during the Biden administration and did so with far less apoplectic objection.

As this war against pure Islamic evil proceeds and partisan vitriol saturates the liberal news outlets intending to taint the public perception against our president, the time has come that we all take a deep breath and consider the clear motivation that led Netanyahu and Trump to attack Iran. All rational people, regardless of political leaning, have agreed that Iran could not be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. The threat of a crazed Islamic theocracy possessing nuclear weapons was , three weeks ago, very real and had very dire implications. This Muslim theocracy and its proxies have been attacking the USA and Israel for decades, killing thousands of innocent Americans and Israelis with impunity over the past half-century, not to mention the massacre of tens-of-thousands of their own. We must understand, their terror cells and lone wolves are currently living among us thanks to the open borders policy of Biden.

The western world has allowed these Iranian Muslim villains to refine uranium for decades, resulting in Iran’s recent admission they possess enough weapons-grade to build eleven nuclear bombs. Their clear intent is to create nuclear warheads perched atop ICBMs that would reach major cities worldwide. They have proven by prior behavior and declaration of destruction they will use these weapons forthwith to destroy us and Israel, then foist Islam on the remaining infidel, radioactive world. They haven’t the desire to behave with reason and exercise rational behavior for they do not to fear death, seeing it as martyrdom, believing 72 virgins await their arrival at which time these virgins must submit to rape in that pathetically misogynistic vision of Paradise.

Here in America, we are now embroiled in a vicious and volatile political, ideological battle, where many so irrationally oppose everything Trump is doing to protect us that it borders on sedition. Somehow, making America great again is offensive to a new, socialist, ultra-feftist Democrat party. And, their egregious behavior is delighting and emboldening our enemies across the world.

This manifest selfishness caused me to consider what my parents, part of the Greatest Generation, personally suffered during WWII. Civilians made significant sacrifices during World War II to support the military and the war effort. Here is what they experienced without whining and complaining, unlike today’s pampered, participation-trophy, spoiled generations: four years of rationing of food, rationing of gasoline, rationing of tires and oil, costal city blackouts, scarcity of common consumer goods, and enormous increases in taxes…all to support the war effort. No one whined…all pitched in to defeat another notorious evildoer.

We have become a spoiled, self-centered, egotistical, selfish society. We refuse to sacrifice personal pleasures for our own common good. That make us vulnerable to our enemies who are delighted to watch us self-destruct. So, I say to all of you who offer support to Iranian terrorists, stop this seditious behavior, support the president and our troops as they take care of unspeakable evil and quite literally save the world. You have the 1st Amendment right to vocally support the enemy, of course, but wait until it is over; you haven’t the right to be a traitor.

Bert Bergland

Colorado Springs