Poll on Eliminating Saturday Delivery

The Lawrence Journal World posted the following question on their on line poll today: "Would you miss receiving mail on Saturdays if the United States Postal Service eliminated delivery that day?"

Click here for the results and comments.

As usual, the people who take the time to comment were negative. However, there were several positive posts. Be sure to find the post written by a former RCA. Unfortunately, I do not agree with her that eliminating Saturday delivery will not affect rural carriers not to mention the RCAs.

It is also interesting that a whopping 875 people responded. I follow these polls and this is significant. It appears the feeling is nearly 50/50 for or against. Personally, I thought there would be a stronger feeling for keeping the six day delivery. For those not familiar with this part of Kansas, Lawrence is in middle of the Kansas City to Topeka corridor. People in the central and western part of the state would be much less willing to give up Saturday delivery.

Pollinator stamp and crop art

Stan Herd, the nationally known crop artist has teamed with Chip Taylor of Monarch Watch to plant the Dogface butterfly taken from the pollinator stamps to be issued this summer by the USPS.

The "stamp" is located between Lawrence and Eudora, Kansas. It has been planted and is expected to reach its full potential by the middle to end of June. I talked to Chip tonight and he gave me this link for Pollinator.org. There are pictures of the progression.

So far, no one knows how the USPS will be participating. Hopefully, they will not miss this beautiful opportunity.

I will post any updates on this project.