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floridarob

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  1. Was never into those parties, even was I was young, ripped and friends that did go..... I don't tolerate large crowds, especially when they are screaming queens. I have a good friend that loves to go on the gay cruises.... 🤮
  2. What time were you in bed...?
  3. I got nervous and thought this was your way of saying goodbye to us all..... with some of us yelling JUMP!!! (not me of course, probably)
  4. Sounds like your apt is next on the agenda....
  5. If you really like him, yes. One day at a time..... don't mention you know, just keep the fantasy going, up to you as they say.
  6. From Google: Why the USPS Loses Money The U.S. Postal Service isn’t a typical business. By law, it must behave like a business and a public utility at the same time. That creates built-in conflicts. Here are the biggest structural money-losers: 1. The Universal Service Obligation (USO) USPS must deliver to every address in America, no matter how remote, at the same price. Private carriers (UPS, FedEx) do not do that. They charge extra for rural, remote, or hard-to-access locations. USPS can’t opt out. That obligation costs billions a year. 2. Congress Controls Prices The Postal Service cannot independently raise postage prices like a normal business could. Price increases require regulatory approval and are tightly capped by law, meaning revenue cannot grow as fast as costs. 3. Declining First-Class Mail First-class mail (bills, letters, cards) used to be the profit engine of USPS. Now it’s been collapsing for 20 years because of email, online bill-pay, digital everything. Packages help, but margins are lower and Amazon negotiates very good rates. 4. Competition is Allowed to Cherry-Pick UPS and FedEx only compete in profitable segments. USPS must handle the expensive categories they avoid. So USPS subsidizes a high-cost network without the higher-margin flexibility its competitors enjoy. 5. Congress-Imposed Financial Burdens This is the one that almost no other organization in the country faces. The infamous pre-funding mandate Passed in 2006, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act forced USPS to: → Pre-fund 75 years of future retiree health benefits Not pensions, but healthcare. And to pre-pay them in a 10-year window. No other federal agency or private company in the U.S. has ever been required to do this. For years, this mandate alone turned what would have been operational profits into billions in losses. Partially repealed in 2022, but the financial damage lingers. Would allowing USPS to offer banking services help? Absolutely. And it’s not a new idea. Most countries’ postal systems offer banking: Japan Post Bank La Banque Postale (France) Royal Mail-backed banking (UK) Brazil, Italy, Germany… the list goes on These banks: generate steady revenue serve low-income and rural communities reduce dependence on taxpayer bailouts USPS used to offer simple banking from 1911 to 1967 and it was wildly successful. If USPS could again offer: bill payment small loans check cashing money transfers savings accounts …it would create a stable, profitable revenue stream and reduce predatory lending in poor communities. Congress has blocked it under lobbying pressure. Would removing the pre-funding requirement help? It already did. When Congress finally rolled it back in 2022: USPS wiped away over $50 billion in paper losses Annual financial pressure dropped dramatically But the damage from 15 years of impossible obligations hasn’t fully evaporated. Removing it earlier would have changed the entire financial trajectory of the USPS. Bottom Line USPS loses money because Congress set it up with contradictory missions and financial handcuffs. If the Postal Service was allowed to: operate more like a business in pricing, drop the outrageous pre-funding mandate, expand into simple banking, and modernize revenue streams… …it would likely be profitable or close to break-even. The problem isn’t incompetence. The problem is Congress.
  7. Your stamp collection is well documented 🧐
  8. There's an understatement šŸ˜†
  9. I look forward to the unpredictability of his (their) questions.... just never know what it'll be, lol
  10. Don't leave us in suspense..... but keep in mind, not everyone has use for gold faucets.
  11. The Onsen sounds interesting...
  12. I was going to reply with this..... it's just called a phone in most places now, I've heard Mobile lots.... was the handphone that I never heard, not to be confused with a happy ending hand job.
  13. that's some expensive sleep hours then?
  14. Was my first thought....
  15. Not a fetish, but a fantasy I haven't fulfilled.....believe it or not 🄺
  16. is that what they call a cell phone on your side of the world?
  17. The turn off for me is when they mention and want to stick "by the hour".... I explain that I like a "session", the equivalent to short time in Thailand....go have some drinks or drinks in the apt, maybe something to eat, play some games and then fuck..... 80% accept, the others want sex express, in and out, fast money.
  18. Not sure that reads as a compliment 🧐
  19. I might be one of the more sarcastic guys here..... but also know what is possible and probable 😁
  20. With the roaming charges in Cuba, better to leave a cell phone turned off, by design when there.
  21. The regrets we usually have in the end is the things we didn't do, vs what we did....
  22. I have faith you'll get your phone back....use another phone to log into your Bolt account and go from there.
  23. I missed him by weeks everywhere I went recently, we had almost the same itinerary, just a week or 2 difference....šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø
  24. Some money boys play the long game, I see this in Bali A LOT (used to see it in Thailand years ago). In the end they get more than if they were getting a daily fee, the feeling of being "loved" plays with hearts and wallets... and in the end, they end up with gifts, trips, great restaurants and in the end, doing less work (sex). Or maybe he likes you.... let us know how it ends or if later requests for money show up.
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