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So today I receive from my local Post Office - 3 different packages - all containing car parts - all addressed to someone that lives in Washington State. Over 1 year ago - I moved here to Central Missouri. USPS should probably introduce a basic Reading Skills test for all potential employees.
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Hilarious! Just kidding. It’s not.
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People don't read any of the letters or packages. It's all ocr. For a while I was getting holiday cards intended for a different zip code, because the senders handwriting made the 2 at the end look like a 1. No real solution except to keep sending them back with a note, sometimes more than once for the same card. |
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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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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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I don't remember anything getting lost that I have sent or received over the years, only the occasional unnecessarily long journey. A long time ago I sold a card on Ebay to a buyer who claimed he never received it. I gave him a refund, but got a message back from him 2 to 3 months later that he finally received it. Turns out the postal deliverer accidently delivered to wrong address, and that was to an office building that had been vacated, so human error comes into play, but honest people made it eventually happen, and even the buyer was an honest fellow too.
Moral...plenty of honest and decent folks out there. Don't let a rotten apple spoil your appetite for apples. Brian |
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