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Reminds me of the famous case of a letter addressed solely with a drawing of Alfred E. Neuman being successfully delivered to the offices of Mad Magazine!
by iron0013 6y ago
Reminds me of the famous case of a letter addressed solely with a drawing of Alfred E. Neuman being successfully delivered to the offices of Mad Magazine!
- reaperducer 6y agoThese sorts of things were once common. Fans would send letters to Rip Torn by simply putting a little tear in the envelope. Chicago had a Sherman Hotel where the Thompson Center is now. People from the south refused to write the name "Sherman," so the post office got used to delivering letters addressed to things like "That hotel whose name must not be written, Chicago." Large post offices had entire departments of people to decode addresses back then. Today the letter either gets bounced, or sent to the dead letter office.
- ardy42 6y ago> Large post offices had entire departments of people to decode addresses back then. Today the letter either gets bounced, or sent to the dead letter office. The costs of automation. Instead of communicating with a human who can be flexible enough to joke with, you communicate with a machine you have to rigidly and humorlessly conform to.