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Any guesses as to why Graceville, FL (with a population under 3,000) ranks under Washington and above Chicago for traffic?

• tyingq 5y ago
  I'm guessing some shady entrepreneur that has somehow compiled a bunch of unique shipping names and addresses to stockpile covid tests and try to sell them.
  • jjeaff 5y ago
    No doubt this is happening to some extent. But it does appear that the USPS requires valid residential addresses in order to send a mask. The USPS does have a database of actual addresses that they validate against. You can't simply send to something that looks valid. Perhaps some good citizen hacker created a bot that automatically submitted a request for every address in town.
    • hoppyhoppy2 5y ago
      a minor correction just in case anyone's confused: this site is for ordering free covid tests to be delivered to your home; the free masks will be distributed starting next week at locations like pharmacies and health clinics
  • johnbatch 5y ago
    Its also the top 3 on other non covid website like the DEP of commerce - https://analytics.usa.gov/commerce/ https://analytics.usa.gov/commerce/ You can get a JSON of the data also and see they have “ZZ” and “not set” as two cities excluded from the front dashboard. https://analytics.usa.gov/data/live/top-cities-realtime.json https://analytics.usa.gov/data/live/top-cities-realtime.json
• smarx007 5y ago
  Most likely a similar reason as to why Potwin got so much attention: https://theweek.com/articles/624040/how-internet-mapping-glitch-turned-kansas-farm-into-digital-hell https://theweek.com/articles/624040/how-internet-mapping-gli...