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A banker mailed a building brick by brick via post office. Was cheaper than standard shipping. https://www.ksl.com/article/32424611/vernal-bank-built-by-brick
by treeman79 7y ago
A banker mailed a building brick by brick via post office. Was cheaper than standard shipping.
https://www.ksl.com/article/32424611/vernal-bank-built-by-bricks-sent-through-the-mail-mdash-partly-true https://www.ksl.com/article/32424611/vernal-bank-built-by-br...
- whatshisface 7y agoIf the postage was appropriately priced for the size and weight of his packages then the USPS didn't lose anything from his clever plan.
- kuzimoto 7y agoIt looks like the post office priced postage at a loss of I think 21 cents per 50 pounds. Government lost about $20,000 to $30,000 annually.
- Benjamin_Dobell 7y agoFrom the sibling link: > This massive shipment was noteworthy not only for its size, but also because it destroyed one of the Uintah Railway Company's trucks. The truck's brakes failed and it started coasting backwards after breaking a drive chain while struggling uphill, loaded with several thousand bricks. The truck then turned over and caught fire. The driver was not injured, but most of the bricks were lost. I imagine USPS pricing didn't account for that incident!
- crooked-v 7y agoThat one's completely the company's fault. If anything bricks should be much easier to balance across trucks than other collections of shipments, because the shipper knows they all weigh the same.
- Mathnerd314 7y agobetter link IMO, since it has sources instead of newsbite fluff: https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/bank-of-vernal.pdf https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/bank-of-ver...
- trollied 7y agoEnjoyed reading that, thank you for the link.