Tom,   
      
   TW>DS>  I heard someone say in a railroad forum that Union Pacific operates   
   TW>DS>all its trains on Central Time, since that's where their corporate   
   TW>DS>offices are (I think they're in Omaha, Nebraska).   
      
   TW>That is correct Union Pacific Headquarters is in  Omaha.   
      
     One of the lines it absorbed over the years, the former Missouri   
   Pacific, I think had its headquarters in St. Louis.   
      
   TW>Some Trivia about Union Pacific:   
      
   TW>They have 8300 Locomotives and 31,800 Miles of Track West of Chicago and   
   TW>New Orleans   
      
     The motto on the side of some of their locomotives "We Will Deliver",   
   is something the Postal Service could take lessons from...ergo:   
      
   1) They have LOST several pieces of mail to/from me...especially in   
   regards to medical bills. So, now I pay them over the phone, or the   
   folks don't get paid.   
      
   2) As an amateur radio license exam team leader, I have (per Federal   
   Law) 10 days after I do an exam session, to get the results into the   
   appropriate Volunteer Examiner Coordinator (VEC)...mine is the ARRL/VEC   
   in Newington, Connecticut...a suburb of Hartford. I paid $20 to send it   
   OVERNIGHT from Little Rock to Newington...mailed out on a Monday. It   
   went to Boston, Massachusetts first...but when I checked with the   
   recipient, they said "we didn't get it until Friday". So, I've gone to   
   FedEx for doing that. Yes, it costs a little more, but IT GETS THERE   
   WHEN PROMISED.   
      
   3) My Mom had sent a sympathy card to a fellow church member who had   
   experienced a death in their family. It was mailed to the same zip code   
   as hers, and from the Post Office with said zip code...but it took 3   
   weeks to be delivered!!   
      
   4) Northeast of Little Rock, the communities of Jacksonville (home of   
   the Little Rock Air Force Base), and Cabot, are just 10 miles apart. In   
   some cases, mail took nearly 2 months to go between the 2 cities.   
      
   5) I had to change my billing method for my AAA Premier membership, so I   
   called them in December. They said they'd have to send a form, which I   
   thought was never done, or the Postal Service lost it. It turns out they   
   mailed in Dec. 13, but it didn't arrive until Jan. 20 (and I thought   
   their headquarters was in St. Louis, while I'm in Little Rock). I ended   
   up taking care of things at an area AAA office.   
      
     Entities like DHL, FedEx, UPS, etc. exist BECAUSE of the Post Office.   
   If you want something there overnight, do you REALLY want to use the   
   Post Office?? The ONLY thing I have with them is a Post Office Box, and   
   use Certified Mail/Return Receipt ONLY when necessary.   
      
     And, yet...they wonder why everyone is going to email, DHL, FedEx,   
   UPS, etc...although one joke was that FedEx and UPS would merge, and be   
   known as "Fed-UPS".    
      
   Daryl   
      
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