• hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Imagine shipping this tiny little box and it weighs 60 pounds. Poor mailman.

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        1 month ago

        It’s the 32 KG mop all over again

        Note: Above video is marketing for an exercise plan, but it’s also funny to watch occasionally when he has new episodes. As far as I know, the weights are real, but they’re always loaded funny in the videos. Max plates visually for the weight the dudes are lifting

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      1 month ago

      But sometimes I have mildly inconveniencing experiences with the postal service in my extremely rural town that require me to navigate my extremely rural town’s nearly non-existent public services so we should absolutely surrender complete control to Amazon

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        1 month ago

        Private companies love the heartland and will work out of patriotism even if rural routes are less profitable! 🤡

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    1 month ago

    It’s because all the packages have the same domestic weight limit.

    Seems silly, but makes sense in the context.

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      1 month ago

      This is the case for most “Dumb laws”: there’s an outlier that becomes kinda silly, but it’s not really worth the effort to change.

      I saw one “It’s illegal to hunt Blue Whales in Idaho”. Because it’s illegal to hunt endangered species in Idaho, and Blue Whales are endangered, not because legislators were super concerned about saving Idaho’s whale population.

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      30 days ago

      Okay so I originally assumed this was probably due to some union rule or something like that. But I didn’t find any reference to it in the NALC guidelines, anything in the USPS resources center (which is hard to use), anything in google searches, and the original employee documentation or spec.

      I did find the USPS History section and it turns out they have someone whose job title is “Postal Historian”, Stephen Kochersperger.

      But, anyways, I found the address (not email of course haha) for the USPS history office so I have wrote up an letter and put it in the mailbox. I will eventually update yall

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    1 month ago

    Neutronium… I am having early 2000s trivia website flashbacks! Wasn’t a teaspoon of that stuff several tons or something?

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      1 month ago

      moving from Europe to America the amount of times I’m like “it’s 12 3/8ths” to try to, yknow, join in, and everyone’s like “call it 12 or 13”

      motherfucker that’s a huge gap!