For those of you who do not know what this is, meet a US Postal Service (USPS) bin. If, for the moment, we ignore the fact that these are, in fact, the property of USPS, they are one of the most sought after commodities at my place of employment, which is not USPS. Vicious fights have been known to break out over these bins, especially over the more pristine examples such as the one pictured here. Unlike the pristine bins, there are quite a few bins here at work that have seen much better days; imagine one of these bins after it has been used by a 400 pound gorilla as a stool to avoid sitting directly in the mud. Sadly, there is constant arguing over to whom each bin belongs, when, in fact, they don’t belong to anyone here. Bins have even been known to be stockpiled away in secretive hiding places for those possible lean days when USPS decides it wants its property returned. I would hate to see what would happen to our operation if USPS suddenly decided to raid our office and remove all the bins. There would be no where left to store the endless amounts of paper that haven’t been scanned or data entered or filed or even looked at…