and then you toss it all the the recycling bin.

One of my many uncles (no, my mom is not a slut ) is a letter carrier, and if you let him he will happily tell you about all the misery that is involved in getting a letter from Point A to Point B these days. All over the country the Postal Service is understaffed, meaning that letter carriers are working well after dark delivering their routes and then part of other routes that have no assigned carrier because the assholes in management refuse to hire more people. He routinely and involuntarily works 10-12 hour days, 6 days a week.

How many of you get your mail after dark, or at wildly different times of the day, or by a different carrier every time you see him or her? That should tell you something. And by the way, postage is increasing by a penny starting May 12. Between rising fuel costs and the rapidly diminishing value of the dollar this should really be no surprise.

What an overwhelmingly underwhelming description of the USPS. "Here's a combustion engine. Fill it up with fuel, and turn it on. THAT's how stuff works."

I really want to know more about the "incredibly sophisticated computer" that reads hand frikken written addresses at 750k mph. Tell me how THAT works.

That's interesting CaptWillard.. But the plus side to being understaffed is that there is a surprisingly hot carrier lady that delivers after I get home.

So the addresses are read using OCR software? what happens when people have horrible handwriting? >.>

syncron, I believe they get filter out and then have to be hand sorted.

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