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1. 

   The_JAM said, about 1 month ago

   Why am I not surprised?

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   EarlWash said, about 1 month ago

   And ‘no Saturday delivery’ is right around the corner.

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   furnituremaker said, about 1 month ago

   pluggers of the world….UNITE!!!!

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   Just4Kixx said, about 1 month ago

   So would a plugger still use snail-mail to make submissions to an interactive comic in 2009?

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   Gary Brookins said, about 1 month ago

   Because of syndication deadlines, comic strips are produced several weeks in advance, so today’s “Pluggers” was drawn last month. I learned last week that our Post Office branch WILL remain open. I’ve drawn a follow-up panel announcing this news, which will appear early next month.
   -Gary Brookins

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   gbwooden said, about 1 month ago

   Speed is relative. A one month delay is like one hour in the life of a plugger. Glad to hear the Post Office branch will remain open. Drop boxes are disappearing around town. And my rural route postal delivery person (the lady who delivers my mail), said the USPS had once considered outsourcing mail pickup to local convenience stores, etc.
   Time marches on.

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   Mxyxptlk said, about 1 month ago

   The USPS has a state mandated monopoly on the delivery of letters. It is illegal for anyone to start a competing mail service in the USSA. And still, profit eludes them. As it is with any state supplied ‘service’, there is no incentive to do a good job. The proposed state monopoly on healthcare won’t be any different.

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   FishStix said, about 1 month ago

   The future:

   We interrupt this cartoon to announce that the hospital in your town is due for government closure. Please do not get sick…

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   Lewreader said, about 1 month ago

   The reason the USPS has a monopoly is so citizen in Buttf%ck Kansas can get the same quality of delivery as urban areas. Fed Ex and UPS won’t even deliver to parts of Alaska.. For 43cents your letter goes across the nation in a day or two, and if you were stupid enough to miss-address it, it comes back to you for free.Does UPS or Fed-EX guarantee to come to your door every day for some undercharged 3rd class ad? B Franklin foresaw a need to tie this nation together through a safe, efficient mail system. Do you want to wait for 7-11 to deliver the results of your lab tests?

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    crunkbot said, about 1 month ago

    GUBMINT BETTR NOT TAKE OVER MAH MEDICARE!!!!

    oh… wait…

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    Dry said, about 1 month ago

    Lewreader a first class stamp is 44 cent, not 43, where you been?

    fishStix hospitals, or parts thereof, are closing all over the place. Our best doctors are leaving because of it.

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    nighthawks said, about 1 month ago

    your mail won’t get thrown away, plugger person…it will be rerouted to another postoffice…that will probably be inconvenient to you but in the grand scheme , a cost saver for a cash strapped but very necessary federal agency

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    Deborah Reyes said, about 1 month ago

    When I grew up, with a whole bunch of other pluggers - we didn’t have chain grocoey stores. We had a general store - which sold just about anything. Part of the general store was a post office. When you wanted to collect your mail, the general store owner would rush over to the little cage reserved for the mail delivery, take off his apron, put on his USPS cap - and get your mail for you. In those days, you didn’t need a fancy address. You could just write the person’s name and the city and state where they lived on the outside of the envelope and the letter would be delivered. Don’t know what they did in big cities like New York. My cousins lived on a farm in the country outside Scott City, Kansas. I would just put the name of one of my cousins on the outside of the envelope, then Scott City and then Kansas - and that was all it took to get the letter to them. It only cost one cent for a letter - which is where the saying: “A penny for your thoughts” probably originated. You didn’t have to rent boxes or anything like that in those days. You just went up to the owner of the gneral store and said you wanted your mail and he would rush over to his cage and get it for you. I have relatives in New Mexico who have ALWAYS picked their mail up at the local gas station-convenience store for a long time. So, for us old-time pluggers - if the USPS begins “outsourcing” the “post office” to local convenience stores - as far as we would be concerned - it would just be a matter of the USPS finally coming full circle. As far as I am concerned, the most natural thing in the world is to buy my stamps at the grocery store. That is where we used to ALWAYS pick up our stamps back in the 40s!

    Of course, that was back in the days BEFORE the grocery store sold stuff like chicken already cut up for you. I can remember when the local grocery store offered the first batch of already cut up chicken for people. Everyone who came into the store just laughed their heads off - they were positive that was an idea which would wither on the vine soon enough. Back then most people - even people who lived in town - had their own hen house out back of their house. Whenever you wanted to have chicken, you went out to the chicken coop, grabbed a chicken, lopped off its head, plucked the feathers off, cut it up yourself and had fresh chicken for supper. Even people who were not lucky enough to have their own hen house out back of their houses would still buy live chickens at the grocery store. If someone wanted a chicken, the grocer would take them out to his hen house out back of his store, the customers would pick the chicken she wanted, the grocer would catch the chicken for her and put it in a gunny sack and the customer would take the chicken home with her. When she was ready for fresh chicken, she would lop off the chicken’s head, pluck off the feathers and cut the chicken up herself. Most people who resorted to buying a chicken from the grocer usually intended to have chicken for supper that night - so someone who actually bought their chicken from the grocer did not really have a need for their own hen house. But the chickens which the grocer supplied were more expensive than the chickens which most people kept out back of their houses.

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    rhonda said, about 1 month ago

    I just have to ask myself … do Pluggers even have email skill/access?

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    Amy Sampson said, about 1 month ago

    rhonda, anyone can do email and internet if they have someone to teach them! I have a friend in her 70s that says she is technologically illiterate-but her grandkids taught her how to use a computer, so she emails, instant messages, and texts-while she is talking to someone on the phone…teaching and practice is all it takes! (And anyone with a land line phone can get dial up if not DSL)

    BTW, we met through mutual online friends….

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    Roto13 said, about 1 month ago

    Is this strip supposed to be ironic? Because email is never an inconvenience compared to snail mail.

17. 

    Daviddeer said, about 1 month ago

    Yeah. But Roto…, I would like to see Netflix send me my DVD’s via email.

18. 

    taber said, about 1 month ago

    Roto13 it is if you are a Plugger

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    mrprongs said, about 1 month ago

    Pluggers remember when Post Offices were opening up, not closing down.

    Daviddeer, Netflix does let you stream ovies, so if they e-mailed you a link, that’d be the same as e-mailing you a DVD.

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    Bany39 said, about 1 month ago

    When our computer was down for a week, no email, but the USPS still came ever day the only virius that may stop the post office is a flu virius

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    Ash said, about 1 month ago

    I will use all caps for this because I’m angry. WHY NO BAILOUT FOR THE POST OFFICE? IT’S THE POST OFFICE!!!

22. 

    anserman38 said, 28 days ago

    No, justforkixx, read the comic again, it’s an email address!!!