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     Videoninja |
With my job I find myself traveling quite a bit (about 100 days last year). One thing that comes along with that much travel is leaving things in hotel rooms. Last June I spent 8-9 days in South Dakota and spent a couple nights in a Courtyard. I left a pair of sunglasses there and realized after about an hour or so on the road. I called the hotel and they were very accommodating and said they would mail them to my home. I got home and never received the package and eventually forgot about it. Well I have since moved from that apartment in to a new place. I got an email from my previous Bldg Manager stating that I had a package there to be picked up. Well today I went to pickup the package and much to my surprise it was my long lost sunglasses. I looked at the postmark on the package and it was mailed on June 8, 2009. It seems that things are bad for the USPS. According to google maps I could walk to Sioux Falls and back in about 25 days, but it took the wonderful postal service nearly 14 months. | ||
| Redefine420 |
If that package could talk. I wonder where the hell its been. | ||
| Pwnzor |
I once got a piece of mail that was sent from Long Beach, California to Mission Viejo, California. It's normally an overnight deal. It took about 2 weeks, and had postmarks from Minnesota, New York and Canada on it. It had been opened and re-taped shut at least twice, due to the visible layers of tape and tears in the paper envelope. Amazing. A hotel once mailed my pillows back to me at their own expense. They arrived back home before I did. | ||
| Drkside79 |
Things fall off belts all the time. Get caught in machines etc. Just be glad you got it. | ||
| Hughlysses |
I can still remember when they first instituted zip codes (yea, I'm old as dirt). I remember my parents complaining about it, and at one point the post office said they would not accept mail that did not have a zip code included in the address. What was funny was years after this, we'd receive mail on a fairly regular basis that had been mis-routed to another town with a similar-sounding name to our town, but a completely different zip code. It was apparent that the post office wasn't even looking at the zip codes they made us use. | ||
| Pwnzor |
It was apparent that the post office wasn't even looking at the zip codes they made us use. Happens all the time at hand-sort facilities. Machine sorted mail usually gets sent the right direction... emphasis on usually | ||
| Kyrocket |
At work we've received mail for Mt. Sterling, IN. we're Mt. Sterling, KY. There's nothing wrong with the address just shows up in the wrong location. Personally my parents sent Valentines cards to my kids, two showed up and one didn't. After a couple of days waiting we felt bad for the third and secretly got her something from Nana and Grandaddy. Then got it in the mail postmarked from Staten Island NY. It was only supposed to travel 60 miles across Ky. But honestly I don't understand how they do as good as they do with all the junk mail they have to deliver and anyone who's been here a while knows what we do with that  |
