"The way you saw it makes perfect sense, except this is the Postal Service…"

Aug 29, 2004 05:17

…to quote my supervisor tonight. So i went into work tonight, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready for my first night at the graveyard shift. My schedule indicated Sunday at 00:30-06:30. To my slight chagrin, i noticed i was the only one showing up at this time. The scant few present employees had been there for hours. So the supervisor tells me i'm ( Read more... )

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hungreejo August 29 2004, 16:56:20 UTC
Your situation reminds me of a scene in A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch. A new inmate thinks that it is noon because the sun is directly overhead and he makes a remark to that effect. The other prisoners hush him up because everyone knows that Stalin has decreed that the sun reaches its apex 1 o'clock. Not to compare the US Postal Service to a Gulag or anything.

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other rules of the gulag soiledwig August 29 2004, 18:52:27 UTC
So i was looking over my bookshelf to see what i should read next. i think you've just chosen it for me.

Other rules at the remote encoding center include, when encoding flats (flat packages, catalogs, etc.) with a military address, if the prompt asks for the zip code, you hit [none] and enter the zip code when you get the city/state prompt. If there's no zip, your [reject] it. However, if there's no zip but it asks for the inward address (street, etc.) you hit the [military] key. Why? Beats the hell outta me. But of course the rules are completely different with letters. i've been meaning to ask them what happens to letters we reject. i'm imagining one guy in a room full of mail opening letters to find addresses obscured by those stupid window envelopes. i think a vast majority of the letters i reject are because of vital info hidden by the windows, or the idiot put the mail in backwards and i'm staring at some poor shlub's medical test results, insurance info, or social security number.

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