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more about #mail Gordonium: Boy, is that guy gonna be pissed when people start putting an old VHS tape of "You've Got Mail" in there, laughing at how clever they are, and that po... more » Curves: I cant say about other places, but where I live, the letter carrier will not deliver to anything but a postal service approved box that is good repair... more » Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: Almost as good as the Tardis front door. #vcrmailslot more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: Wow, is that a real TeleFunken VHS player? Damn, I miss those. #vcrmailslot more » dahveed: Uh, its unfortunate. I still use snail mail for my bills (coming and going) but I absolutely HATE to go to the post office. Always a line and it see... more » fanboy.took.my.star: well yeah...it happens... its kind of like how post and courier services replaced carrier pigeons... more » cmaceachen: I really hate when people point at the USPS as some example of bad government handling. As a semi-independent government agency, they are not suppose... more » Kaiser-Machead: I don't think I could go with just Netflix online, since I rip the DVD's before I send them back. A-wakka-wakka. Anyway, boohoo for them. If they ca... more » What The Geek: I send and receive a good number of packages in my day to day life, and almost none of them go through the usps. I've had way too much mail that was l... more » se7a7n7: Didn't you hear? Congress is going to pass a bill that will let the USPS charge a fee for every email that we send. It's completely true. more » bosskev: What? Losing more than half of our post boxes? Shutting down Saturday delivery? This is an outrage! The U.S. Postal Service is the backbone of America... more » The Lab: This is bad news for the Philatelic Society. more » switchblade saints: just wait until I figure out how to email this fruit basket. You will lose completely Muahaha more » sharkync: Is there ANYthing the government touches that doesn't turn to crap - other than to continually improve their ability to kill people? more » ShibaniHalongelic: I for one am glad. I can't tell you how annoying I find it to throw out and shred all that unwanted snail-spam every day! I get -maybe- one piece of r... more » Nick: don't feel too bad Dan. if the USPS wants to survive they will just have to adapt and think about the future. perhaps they could team up with checkf... more » Seiven: awesome, thank you giz for a truly educational article. I promise to tell someone today my email using "amphora" more » Curves: This makes me wonder where Tilda ~ got her name. more » Andreas Ventus: Jesus, you are wrong, Russians call it cabaka, in English it means a female dog. more » 92BuickLeSabre: Jesus, you forgot the link to the article: [thelede.blogs.nytimes.com] (That of course being a sentence addressed to Mr. Diaz, not an exclamation of f... more » -
#retromodo
Rewind to Sender
I gave a letter to the postman, he put it his sack. Bright in early next morning, he brought my letter back. She wrote upon it: Rewind to sender, address unknown. The VHS mailbox. [There I Fixed It via Obsolete] -
#snailmail
USPS Suffers as More People Use New-Fangled Electronic Mail
The USPS is having a rough time lately, sending billions fewer pieces of mail each year and shutting down hundreds of thousands of mailboxes. They're in such dire financial straits they may need a bailout. And it's all our fault. More » -
#mail
What Does @ Really Mean?
You use it every single day. In English it's called the "at sign." The Italians call it "snail." The Spaniards, "arroba." The Slavs, "monkey." But what did @ really mean 473 years ago? More » -
#mailhoarding
Mail Hoarding Is Real, and I Just Experienced It
Mail hoarding is a fantastic phenomenon. Slate explains it as the cases where postal workers stockpile mail/packages in their trucks, then act like they delivered them. I discovered that this happens with Fedex too. More » -
#headlines
Stand Aside Dying Babies, Sega Mega Drive Makes a Comeback
In one of the odder front pages we've seen, The Daily Mail wants to tell you about the four most exciting consoles today: PS3, Xbox 360, Wii and, of course, the Sega Mega Drive. [UKResistance via Kotaku] -
#blockbusteronline
Blockbuster Online Having Mailing Issues As Well?
We just received a tip from reader Michael that Blockbuster online has been having shipping issues with their movies as well. Netflix's recent outage was settled in about three days, but Michael's problem has been ongoing for the last four business days. When he called a customer service rep, they said Blockbuster's shipping center were having an "allocation issue", and many other customers have been complaining. More » -
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#apple
Apple Gives MobileMe Customers 60 More Free Days
Apple's tacking on an addition 60 days to the 30 days it already doled out to MobileMe subscribers, which means you've got an entire three months extra to wait out the issues you've been having. Apple sent out these emails today to MobileMe subscribers, but if you're one of the ones with MobileMe mail snags, you might not have gotten it. Well you've seen it now! Apple has some qualifications, so click on to see if you're eligible. [Apple] -
#netflix
Netflix's Shipping Systems Have Been FUBARed Since Tuesday
CNBC reports that Netflix' shipping systems have been at least partially broken since Tuesday. They managed to ship nothing on Tuesday, half of what they were supposed to on Wednesday, and nothing today. What's the deal? More »
