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Originally Posted by Brent G.
The USPS processes around 320 million pieces a day -- the success rate is incredible when compared to other sectors. That we'd even consider sticking very valuable items — or in this case $15 in cardboard — in an envelope speaks to that.
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Originally Posted by sbfinley
I once read that USPS’s failure rate was lower than NASA’s toleration for failure in static mechanical parts and that’s always stuck with me. But it’s USPS, if they sold $.78 stamps with a $5 bill attached to it half of this board would complain about how it was folded.
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That's the problem with really big numbers. Even if you're successful 99.99% of the time, there's still a big number of mistakes (in this case it would be 32,000 per day if my math is correct). What's amazing is that is seems like all of the mistakes happen to people on this board.
