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- AF-Geek, on 10/12/2007, -4/+94With the thousands of tons (that's "tonnes" for our European friends) of mail the US Postal Service handles, the machines are bound to rip a few! I get these once in a while (mostly my magazines) and I hate it, too. But I try to keep in mind that it's just one item among millions.
- Lokix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+74That's better than getting a letter all tore the ***** up with no apology or anything.
- EgoDemens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+62Tonne is metric, it works out to about to be about 1.1 ton. Don't use them interchangeably, it's that kind of assumption that crashes mars vehicles.
- TravisG5, on 10/12/2007, -7/+50im in ur post office and im rippin up ur mail
- iam413x, on 10/12/2007, -7/+45Congrats alien. You're making your way to being one of the most hated people on digg. Go back to 4chan.
- edmondsonj, on 10/12/2007, -21/+58To alien3456...................................................................................................................................douche!
- mr804, on 10/12/2007, -0/+37***** happens.
- dave830, on 10/12/2007, -10/+44this is on digg because......?
post office rips mans mail. post office apologize. Hot News!
edmondsonj, be sure to fill us in if your dog farts. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30That's very considerate of you to point out how considerate they are, friend.
- Rikushix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28That's very considerate of them.
- bigfix01, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28Its funny that you say that, I actually work for the Post Office and I would have to be having a great day to take the time to bag that letter. It is the carrier's responsibility to bag the letter with the apology. That's an extra minute or two with your piece of mail that we don't have, you must have a carrier that really cares about you.
- HesNikke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22The USPS also gets exactly 0ยข of taxpayer money. it's all paid for by those tiny little stamps. fun fact: those tiny little stamps are legal US tender until they are voided by mailing them.
- amercer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22I'm printing these out out to give to every single one of my customers at work. That way I can sleep at night knowing that all is forgiven.
- MrPig, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Well, we know who should be fired. -_-
- MaxwellTD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19I dont.
- metalhead3767, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22They should of at least gave some free stamps of something. I mean if UPS ripped my motherboard from newegg a "we care" letter just would not work.
- Portwineboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I got a Netflix envelope wrapped in one of these. The HD-DVD was missing and it looked like it had been just ripped off. I was pretty pissed so I filed a stolen mail complaint with the USPS and notified Netflix it was missing.
About a week later Netflix tells me the movie showed up!
I think the USPS does a pretty good job at reasonable prices. - spyd3rweb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19probably was the FBI ripping into your mail.
- diggduggjoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15It is a heavily mechanized system. Anyone should be happy, for the amount of stuff I send and receive flawlessly is amazing. I am a libertarian, but I do see how the Post Office benefits everyone, at least, with first class correspondence. Anyone, anywhere, can send a letter throughout the US for a very reasonable price. Junk mail can disappear for all I care, but sending a letter works very well. Unfortunately, the President has decided that 1st Class Mail does not have the right to privacy that historically it had. I wish the PO would fight for us. However, the recent executive order probably makes it moot point.
When the Post Office was created there was no transnational corporations of the size we see today. It was a valid use of government to see that commerce could be done. There was mail order far before UPS and FEDEX. Ever hear of the small success stories like Sears Roebuck or Montgomery Ward? Rural America was very well served by the US Postal Service. Today, I would argue that some transnational corporations may be able to do it better, but only with the stipulation that every First Class Letter is treated and charged the same. We, the People, could bid out the contract to run the Post Office. We could still define the parameters of operation, but another entity would carry out our expectations.
Anyone who bitches about one letter out of thousands they receive is an a--hole! - PatrickFisher, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Not only Europeans. Don't forget about us Canadians, we say "tonnes" too.
- monticello, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13People generally know jack ***** about the Post Office, how it is run, and the type of job they are trusted with. It is really incredible.
- ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Those of us who know how to write?
- HalBSure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Was it a movie about steak? Or kittens? If so, maybe a dog did get to it.
Just trying to help. - arnaudh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12NeedleGuy, should ***** happen on a big scale, the USPS would be one of the key institutions to hold this country together. Not FedEx, not UPS, not DHL, which are for profit corporations. Also, the USPS will send your letter for 39 cents throughout the US, even if it's just 2 miles away or all the way to Alaska. So those breaks the USPS gets are worth it, don't you think? Or are you one of those armchair survivalists who thinks they'll do just fine by themselves, no matter what happens?
- lowridah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I used to work for the post office (hence the avatar) but I stopped showing up for work. It's not always the letter carrier's position to place the letters in these bags...the limp, lame, and lazy are often given a position taping letters and such back together and placing it in these "we care" bags.
DBCS machines that sort your letters at up to 60 per second (that is, OCR'ing the letter, spraying a barcode on the front, spraying a barcode on the back, AND sorting the letter) often times hang up on letters that aren't standard sized, and some rip. Get over it. If you had any idea what the numbers actually WERE concerning how many letters get handled versus how many get mangled you would realize that the USPS does a DAMN good job. - diggduggjoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11NO! ***** bitch about it!
- Shastadad, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Americans don't have a clue as to how cheap and good our postal service is. In most countries the price would have been three times as high and the ripped letter would have been thrown in the trash.
- Rikushix, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Indeedly.
- Dr.Gonzo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I ordered a DVD on eBay through USPS one time and when I got it, it had the same note attached to it along with my movie looking like it had been chewed up by a dog or something.
- ActivitY, on 10/12/2007, -8/+15***** cause it.
- mc4_a, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Wow are you going to cry about it
- kagaku0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Wow, a topic I can comment on with insightful knowledge. Too bad it's about damaged mail, haha
I work at a large bank in the downtown Chicago area (JPMC), and we handle a huge amount of mail daily, on the order of 800,000 to 1,500,000 pieces of mail per day (lockbox operations, largest site in the country). With that kinda volume, you'd be surprised that I rarely if ever see these things. I might see one or two per month. It's truly amazing how much volume goes through the postal service without ending up damaged, stolen, late, etc.. All for that .39c per letter or whatever it is.
Sure there's the occasional disgruntled post man who steals *****, but compared to a lot of other services out there, you can really say that the postal service just works. It'll never be perfect, but then again what is? - Pottersquash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@needleguy
clearly youve never had to send ANYTHING internationally. Had to send a care package to Korea - UPS - 5 day $250, FedEx - 10 days $190. USPS - 4-10 days $50 bucks
If USPS didn't have a monopoly, this country would fall apart, you think its cost possible to send ANY magazine if not for USPS bulk rate, And Half.com would cease to exsit without Media Mail.
And USPS is a government agency, whats thepoint of a government agency paying taxes??? dumbass - jeet404, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Software2 I believe he means the amount of mail the post office handles.
- knowledg333, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5No free stamps?
- Fhionnlaoch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5They just made it look ripped. It was really randomnly inspected by the NSA.
- arnaudh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Somehow I think you're full of *****.
- normalizer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5only if the person who sent it chose to insure it, if not then tough *****. and yes, I am a postal worker.
- JaytB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I'm European (Belgian) and have never used the word tonnes before. We use 'Ton' in singular and plural.
Further, I can't imagine our post-office even remotely thinking of excusing themselves for broken stuff. - bigtymer1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It sucks if it was something important but remember it costs $0.39 to send a letter USPS. Yet, if it was sent by UPS or FedEx $10.00 easy. For me a ripped letter every now and then isn't that bad considering the alternative, so public ownership/government subsidization isn't that bad if it saves my broke ass a couple bones.
- JaytB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Hehe, I'm gonna rip all my letters before I send them and collect their bags.
- knubo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I found it kinda entertaining - though I'm Norwegian. I've never gotten torn mail or seen anything like that so it's interesting to see how other countries do stuff.
Then again, our country is tiny - only 4.6 million people, so I guess that our postal service is kinda easier to handle. - MrPig, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6It's on the front page so it must be.
- scootinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've gotten this before and so have many other people. Not really anything new.
- spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Seriously though - how is this "Tech Industry News"?
- dignation, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5apparently 107 other people wouldn't agree with you
- battleroyalex, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7If they really cared someone would have hand wrote that
- SuperJimmyJimbo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3See, this is why that internet thing is going to catch on....never seen a ripped E-Mail have you?
just don't try asking your office to send you the internet on a Wednesday, that's just asking for trouble, that is, unless you have a dumptruck, or a plunger to uncog the tubes - maicowchoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2At least they wrote you something. I had lost items by FedEx and I had to find out what was missing on my own. After filing a claim lasting two months, I finally got my "lost" stuff back.
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