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!
"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!
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Date: 2011-06-27 07:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-28 12:27 pm (UTC)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
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Date: 2011-06-28 03:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-28 06:37 pm (UTC)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.