HOT AIR: Postal Experiments
Posted in Random by Dan at 8:16 am
This post was published 4 years 3 months 26 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Who doesn’t love testing the US Postal service?
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?
I used to send mis-burned CD’s as postcards. They would always get where they were sent and very often they would be delivered wrapped in plastic-wrap. I assume in an attempt to protect the cd. All of this wonderfulness for the price of a stamp from the USPS.