Post-Holiday garbage schedules and the 7-Second Delay.

Factual Questions
1

Here in LA, the garbage pickup is off by a day after a holiday. For instance, my trash normally gets picked up on Tuesday. Well, this week it will be picked up on Wednesday. Since Monday is a holiday, they will obviously be doing Monday’s route Tuesday, Tuesday’s Wednesday,etc.

So, what I wanna know is, assuming they don’t add a day to the week for the holiday they took off (i.e., work Saturday this week cuz they missed Monday, seems like a cheesy answer), how do they get back on schedule within the week? Because they will be back to doing the pickup on a normal schedule next week…

And while we are on the subject…on talk radio 9maybe all radio, i dunno) there is something called the “7 second delay” - this allows them to bleep your ass out if you say something bad. But if they USE the delay once or twice, sucking up a few of those seconds, perhaps all of them, how do they get them back so that they will have them to use later on when you say something bad again? having used them, they would have brought real time and radio time closer together, perhaps synch’d, yes? Well, how do they un-synch them again?
These questions burn in my breast, I need answers!

stoid
having what looks to be a truly rockin’ New Years Eve. Arf.

2

On the delay part, commercials. They come back in studio before the commercial finishes playing over the broadcast. Also, fyi, most “shock jocks”, like Howard Stern and the like, have a lot longer than 7 seconds. Opie and Anthony, from the NYC are have a good 40 seconds to a minute. I’m sure Howard is up there as well. On O & A if they use up all the time, they dump out to music til they can build it back up again.

3

They have to work an extra day, I do deliveries and any holiday we get off has to be made up by working a Sunday :(.

4

Where I live, they take up the slack by making the next three days’ worth of garbage pickup in two days. I’ve always assumed that they accomplish this either by working overtime or by deferring other municipal tasks.