09-17-2005, 06:08 AM
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Location: New England
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Originally Posted by Rodney
Uh, yeah. Things that obviously look good get snagged in the mail. My wife subscribes to a magazine called the Fortean Times which has these amazing lurid covers (it's actually a fine magazine about strange phenomena). They shipped the magazines in transparent mailers, and we were only getting about every other issue. We complained, and apparently a lot of other people did, too. Turns out that the issues were getting "lost" in the mail. The publisher switched to opaque, unmarked mailers, and guess what? We now get every issue!
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Charles Fort! W00t!!1!
Also, check out Postal Experiments:
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Having long been genuine admirers of the United States Postal Service (USPS), which gives amazingly reliable service especially compared with many other countries, our team of investigators decided to test the delivery limits of this immense system. We knew that an item, say, a saucepan, normally would be in a package because of USPS concerns of entanglement in their automated machinery. But what if the item were not wrapped? How patient are postal employees? How honest? How sentimental? In short, how eccentric a behavior on the part of the sender would still result in successful mail delivery?
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