So I received a little bit of junk mail, that goes like this:
——- Original Message ——-
From: “United Postal Service” [root@ups.com]
Sent: 12/18/2008 08:54 AM CET
To: Me
Subject: UPS: Your Tracking # 614473356324
Sorry, we were not able to deliver postal package you sent on November the 25th in time
because the recipient’s address is not correct.
Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our office.
If you do not receive package in ten days you will have to pay 36$ per day.
Your UPS Support Team
[attachment “EXL6512721.zip” deleted by Joseph Hoetzl]
Oh, they went wrong on so many levels…
- From: “United Postal Service” [root@ups.com]
Sorry, it is either the United Parcel Service, which would be from a ups.com domain or the U.S. Postal Service, which would be from a usps.com domain. Opppss…
- we were not able to deliver postal package you sent on November the 25th in time
25th of which year? In time for what? Nevermind that I didn’t send anything
- Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our office.
Why would there be an invoice for this? Oh, and which office do I go to?
- If you do not receive package in ten days
If you are telling me to print and invoice and go and get the package, why would I magically receive the package?
- you will have to pay 36$ per day
In the US, we put the currency symbol before the amount. And $36 - eh? Odd amount…
- Do you really think that the USPS or UPS would send out an email without a disclaimer or some form of advertising in it?
Who falls for this crap!?
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Well, I bit earlier on here I posted about my “Skinny Dipping Trees” tag on flickr. The person who commented with those words made it his mission to take a suitable photograph that he could tag with that same text, with that, I present CarbonNYC’s version of Skinny Dipping Trees:
4 years ago
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Mail stats for Christmas Day:
Received: 2423
Delivered: 33 (1.4%)
Rejected: 2390 (98.6%)
4 years ago
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Is it me, or do you hate those automated calling systems that call you, then ask you to please hold while they get a representative. Yes, I fully understand why they do this, but I hate it, and never “wait” for them. If they can’t have the decency to call me for real, then they don’t get to talk.
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Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb toward the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water.
After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new monkey. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a third original monkey, then a fourth then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey can ever again approach the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that’s the way it’s always been done around here.
That is how company policy begins.
4 years ago
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