This is a truly amazing story of our tax dollars at work …
In case you missed the headlines, the TSA’s Inspector General dispatched an audit team to try to sneak simulated bombs and guns past the crack TSA teams at several high traffic airports.
The good news: the TSA agents sniffed out 3 of the fake weapons.
The bad news: they missed 67.
That’s a failure rate of 95.7%.
Not exactly 6-sigma performance.
Here are a couple of story snippets that got my attention …
I used to heap high praise on Amazon. Not so much any more.
First, some background …
Free shipment time from Amazon used to be one of my primary economic indicators.
If a free shipping order arrived in 2 or 3 days, I concluded that the economy wasn’t doing so well.
Why?
Free shipments essentially fly stand-by,
If there’s space on planes & trucks then they get loaded.
If there isn’t, then the orders sit on the docks.
So, in a slow economy, orders come fast.
In a hot economy, orders take longer.
At least, that’s the way things seemed to work.
Not so predictable these days.
What’s up?
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