Delayed Mail and the Bailout

It is just so frustrating when things do not go the way they usually go. Maybe our mail person is on vacation or maybe he has retired but either way you’d think that like police officers and fire personnel the new ones would have to learn their territory before striking out on their own. Our mail person arrives like clock work, 10 to 10:30 a.m. everyday, however, with who ever has taken over his route it is anyone’s guess when or if the mail will come. Monday was the worst; my mail went in the box at 10:00 a.m., by 3:30 P.M. still no pickup so even with gas in short supply I had to drive to the post office to deposit my mail. At 5:05 P.M. the truck showed up but I seriously do not think the person driving had any idea where they were. The mail person drove up and down the street, around the block a few times and from there I have no idea. It seems the more money they get the worse the service nowadays.
Larry King had a guest that tried to explain where the government would get the $700 billion dollars it wants to bail out failing lending institutions. He said they would borrow it from lending institutions then bail out lending institutions meanwhile paying interest and principal to lending institutions. Huh? If there are lending institutions with $700 billion dollars then they do not need a bail out therefore the ones that do can borrow from them without interference from the government and that would alleviate us, the taxpayer, from having to pay back a loan that was not necessary in the first place.