{"id":10254,"date":"2007-03-06T19:05:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T02:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/03\/06\/how-to-make-the-time-pass-faster-in-post-office-lines.html"},"modified":"2007-03-06T19:05:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T02:05:13","slug":"how_to_make_the_time_pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/06\/how_to_make_the_time_pass.html","title":{"rendered":"How to make the time pass faster in Post Office lines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/consumer\/usps\/us-postal-service-solves-long-waits-by-removing-clocks-from-post-offices-241188.php\" target=\"_blank\">Remove the clocks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That, of course, is not the reason clocks have been removed from the public areas of some 37,000 post offices over the last year.  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