Should this be a law?

[lucius]

Why should service members be required to pay extra for such a service? You gain way more from their service than they get in return. Lots of them are waking up to that. Why do you think army retention is so low? It's the little things like this that add up in the long run.

Besides, refusing transactions with a group of potential customers based on their service status and the resulting address caused by it is like refusing service to blacks. It's collectivist thinking.

APO/FPO addresses are difficult for a business, much of the shipments are returned. It is such a hassle that many businesses just say no instead of acquiring a potential customer service hassle, reshipment, refund etc. I will ship APO/FPO with the understanding of payment up front with no guarantee of delivery.

 

[Dustancostine]

And Ron Paul would agree with my idea in principal.

RP wouldn't want the military running your mailing system.

 

[Man from La Mancha]

Foo,

Can you get a P.O box here in the states, and have it forwarded to you?

Also talk about free market, I smell a huge business opportunity here. I could open a business (such as mail box etc) which would receive the mail and then reroute the mail/fedex/ups into the apo system. Plus the soldiers can use it for their billing address so that they could order anything they wanted. hmmmmm......

I don't where you have been, but most the companies I have deal with don't allow PO boxes. I feel for FOO but I'm against making a law.


.

 

[foofighter20x]

that's right... we're not allowed to insult the military here at

ronpaulforums.com

i forgot..

oh yea, thanx for the infraction!

you are perfectly free to.

what you aren't allowed is to simply attack them and offer no further explanation

no ok - military (insert insult here)!

ok - military (insert insult here) beacuse...

 

[synapz]

And Ron Paul would agree with my idea in principal.

Um, no he wouldn't. Ron Paul would agree with a free market solution or a military mailing solution (which the APO addressing system is NOT, as you suggested).

*sigh* Anyways, you clearly don't get it, so I am going to "run away" too.

 

[Dustancostine]

Why should service members be required to pay extra for such a service?

BTW not everyone gets a free mail box. I live in small town. Town, not rural area. My Post Office does not receive enough business, so they do not home delivery. I have to buy a post office box in order to receive my mail. So what would be the difference.

--Dustan

 

[constituent]

i've made myself abundantly clear over the course of my postings here on why the military if sadistic and fascistic. that's why those insult rules, if you'll reread the forum rules you linked to, state that this sort of thing might be a problem if you're new... but geez, am i still new around here?

you're going way too far again foo.

and really draggin this place down with you. enjoy it.

 

[synapz]

you're going way too far again foo.

and really draggin this place down with you. enjoy it.

QFT

 

[Dustancostine]

I don't where you have been, but most the companies I have deal with don't allow PO boxes. I feel for FOO but I'm against making a law.


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If it is a PMB (Private Mail Box) they can ship UPS, fexdex, airborn there. It is like a PO Box but run by a private company. Like the boxes they have a the UPS store.

--Dustan

 

[foofighter20x]

APO/FPO addresses are difficult for a business, much of the shipments are returned. It is such a hassle that many businesses just say no instead of acquiring a potential customer service hassle, reshipment, refund etc. I will ship APO/FPO with the understanding of payment up front with no guarantee of delivery.

I don't where you have been, but most the companies I have deal with don't allow PO boxes. I feel for FOO but I'm against making a law.


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The most level, calm, rational responses yet.

Good job guys.

 

[constituent]

i have no idea what QFT means.

 

[lucius]

Quoted For Truth

 

[constituent]

well thank you.

 

[foofighter20x]

Um, no he wouldn't. Ron Paul would agree with a free market solution or a military mailing solution (which the APO addressing system is NOT, as you suggested).

*sigh* Anyways, you clearly don't get it, so I am going to "run away" too.

Oh, really? Then how come he's never proposed a free market military health care system and has approved of the current one?

 

[constituent]

still... that's a stretch to say that this 'priniciple' would apply to (optional) online purchases.

 

[synapz]

He would approve (I imagine) a free market solution or a military healthcare solution. My answer doesn't change, so that leaves you grasping at straws trying to explain what you're talking about.

Why am I still here? *mutter*

 

[foofighter20x]

He would approve (I imagine) a free market solution or a military healthcare solution. My answer doesn't change, so that leaves you grasping at straws trying to explain what you're talking about.

Why am I still here? *mutter*

As he's a former military medial doctor, I would think he would not since you cannot require civilian doctor to go with the military into combat zones.

How they gonna get battlefield heathcare if there's no field hospital?

The military isn't the market, folks. It's a unique beast that requires unique provisions when comparing it to a free market.

 

[constituent]

that's why we should only have a military during times of real invasion by organized armies.

and conscription is always wrong. i think the good dr. would say that if the military couldn't get enough field dr.'s it was b/c they were fighting for the wrong cause. if they were fighting for the right cause, all the doctors would be lining up.

 

[acstichter]

The answer to your poll, Foo, is:

Hell No!

I sell on eBay and never ship overseas. Why? Because I don't want to. I would be livid if Congress told me I HAD TO.

You get this right?

 

[Dustancostine]

I still don't see the difference between our two situations.

I have to buy a PO Box to have any mail sent to me what so ever.

You have to buy some time of other box (maybe a PMB) to get stuff forwarded to you.

What is the difference?