LOLS and Kudos to United States Postal Service

[karadinart]

Group decides to send various items wrapped and unwrapped through the USPS to see what would happen.

"Second, the delivery involved the collusion of sequences of postal workers, not simply lone operatives. The USPS appears to have some collective sense of humor, and might in fact here be displaying the rudiments of organic bureaucratic intelligence."

http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/postal-6-4.html

thanks copperbadge for link!

Comments

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is hilarious! Alas, these days I doubt many of these would fly.

[goodbyemyfancy.livejournal.com]

My friends and I used to do this for fun back in the 80s - tape an envelope onto various objects, add the right postage, and see what happened. With the exception of fruit, nearly everything was delivered! So I loved this article!

A new version of this: disposable camera experiment:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1015791--smile-you-re-on-camera-mail-a-camera-s-journey-across-america?bn=1

[tanfouk.livejournal.com]

The folks at our local P.O. are great people, and they have to put up with so much crap. People now have to wait in line because the company that made the stamp vending machines went bankrupt, so parts to repair the old ones are no longer available. My local P.O. was planned before big subdivisions were built, so there's usually a line of 4 - 8 people. Somehow the employees get blamed for all of this.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I used to work in a contract postal station, so you WOULD NOT BELIEVE the crap I had to deal with, you have to have a sense of humour to work for the
PO - and if anything, I think the article shows how fantastic the USPS is, more reliable than the postal services in any country in Europe I lived in.