Postal Blooper
Posted: June 29, 2007 Filed under: Let the picture speak 2 Comments »United States Postal Service (USPS) is normally very reliable, but no matter how good the system is there are always possibilities of human error. Last week I encountered one, one of my mail couldn’t be delivered to the destination. The reason made me laugh rather than get upset (my mail wasn’t of urgent nature).
When one moves from one place to another there is a provision of postal forwarding (after informing the postal office), I had done that when I moved from Illinois to Louisiana. Now my younger brother moved to Illinois from Minnesota for his graduate studies, and he is currently staying in the same apartment as I did when I was there. Two weeks ago I posted him a letter which he never got; instead it was forwarded back to me. The reason: between our names there is difference of an alphabet; it’s very unlikely that an American postal worker could have figured that out. Now it’s quite possible that I might get more of his mails.
Click on the picture below to enlarge it to see for your self. By the way, I don’t have a middle name, I just wrote that to show my superiority 
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After I sent a letter to Nepal for 90 cents and it got there in 7 days, I was pretty happy with USPS. Now, if my dad and I had a similar name, god only knows where the letter would have landed.
Prajwol..
sounds funny. similar kind of incident happened (though not exactly same), when I send a x-mas greeting card to my brother in Dubai. when he said he dint receive it I dint believe.. untill march where i got that card, with a seal stating incomplete/insufficient address
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