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Rob Dickerson, Army Veteran, Forced To Pay $21 C.O.D. For Purple Heart Medal

For ****'s sake. People are acting like someone made the conscious decision of "I'm mailing this purple heart to a veteran, I'm going to make him pay the shipping!"

It's a bureaucratic error. Some guy handed some other guy a box and said "put Rob Dickerson's medal in here and send it to him." That guy put the medal in a box and handed it to some other guy. "Send this to Rob Dickerson." That guy gave it to FedEx. FedEx charged the shipping because that's what FedEx does. None of the people in this chain had any idea why the medal was being shipped instead of presented at a scenario, the rest of the backstory is irrelevant.
 
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Deuce said:
For ****'s sake. People are acting like someone made the conscious decision of "I'm mailing this purple heart to a veteran, I'm going to make him pay the shipping!"

It's a bureaucratic error. Some guy handed some other guy a box and said "put Rob Dickerson's medal in here and send it to him." That guy put the medal in a box and handed it to some other guy. "Send this to Rob Dickerson." That guy gave it to FedEx. FedEx charged the shipping because that's what FedEx does. None of the people in this chain had any idea why the medal was being shipped instead of presented at a scenario, the rest of the backstory is irrelevant.
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I'm sure you have a link supporting your contentions for Christ's Sake?
 
apdst said:
Sure, go ahead. I double dog dare ya.
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Read the article. Then if you still don't get it, I charge 300 Dollars an hour for remedial reading comprehension classes.
 
Top Cat said:
I'm sure you have a link supporting your contentions for Christ's Sake?
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Your contention is that somebody made the conscious decision to charge the guy shipping for his purple heart?
 
Deuce said:
Your contention is that somebody made the conscious decision to charge the guy shipping for his purple heart?
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I'm not the one assuming he knows what happened. That would be you.
 
Medal **** up is pretty much SOP in the military. The good news is they err on the side of caution. Benefits come with a PH, however.
 
apdst said:
This is what happens when you create an out of control bureaucracy.
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apdst said:
An out of control government.
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It's not the government's fault its the Army's fault, someone(s) down in that office made a mistake. And its the Army's responsibility to make sure it doesn't happen again whether its a revision of policy, I can't imagine this is encouraged by any kind of policy, or a counseling of the employee, perhaps their supervisor too. But I agree Army bureaucracy is a rediculous rat maze.
 
Wiseone said:
It's not the government's fault its the Army's fault, someone(s) down in that office made a mistake. And its the Army's responsibility to make sure it doesn't happen again whether its a revision of policy, I can't imagine this is encouraged by any kind of policy, or a counseling of the employee, perhaps their supervisor too. But I agree Army bureaucracy is a rediculous rat maze.
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Admitting this would require him to criticize the military.
 
Wiseone said:
It's not the government's fault its the Army's fault, someone(s) down in that office made a mistake. And its the Army's responsibility to make sure it doesn't happen again whether its a revision of policy, I can't imagine this is encouraged by any kind of policy, or a counseling of the employee, perhaps their supervisor too. But I agree Army bureaucracy is a rediculous rat maze.
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Again--and you know this as well as I do--if the CSM had orders, that authroized him to wear an award and he took those orders to his unit, they would have issued him the decoration, free of charge.
 
Deuce said:
Because my assumption is vastly more reasonable.
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Well there you have it then.

Because we all know people never do stupid things.

I mean seriously.
 
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