USPS: Genius at Work

This is news from the bizarre.  The US Postal Service has decided to fix long waits in line at the local post office by..removing the clocks.  The theory is people won't know how long they waited, therefore it won't seem so long.  Thats our government at work folks.  I guess postal workers haven't heard of watches, or mobile phones or PDA's with chronometers.

I wonder what the government did with those 37,000 clocks?

I bet they gave them to the IRS.  Check this clipmark to find out.

clipped from www.chron.com

Postal Service fixes long waits by removing clocks

FORT WORTH — The missing clock didn't stop postal customer Al Cunningham from noticing the amount of time spent waiting for service.

"It's always long here," said Cunningham, 49, an insurance adjuster and former postal employee who was standing in line at the Watson Post Office in Fort Worth.

The Watson Post Office is one of the nation's 37,000 post offices in which clocks have been removed from retail areas as part of a "retail standardization program" launched last year. The effort is designed to give the public-service areas a more uniform appearance, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in Thursday editions.

"We want people to focus on postal service and not the clock," said Stephen Seewoester, Dallas spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service.