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I wish I could find the article. Years ago, someone tried mailing a lot of stuff through the post office. I remember they mailed a $20 bill, and tried sneakin
by m463 2y ago
I wish I could find the article.
Years ago, someone tried mailing a lot of stuff through the post office.
I remember they mailed a $20 bill, and tried sneaking something oversized like skiis into a mail truck.
can't find the article though - search has really been SEO'd to death by companies involved in mail.
- ekam 2y agoo3 found it- guess its a sign of where search is going: https://www.nalc.org/news/the-postal-record/2011/april-2011/document/04-2011_strange.pdf https://www.nalc.org/news/the-postal-record/2011/april-2011/... and https://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/TMP-1110023375.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/TMP-1...
- nonethewiser 2y agoSpeaks to how bad search has gotten but some things are kind of inherently hard to search. “Tip of my tongue” sort of things. Llms are pretty good for that kind of stuff.
- m463 2y agolol, that is it! :) $20 bill. Days to delivery, 4. Ski. ... The ski was slipped into a bin of postage that was being loaded into a truck behind a station (a collaborating staff member created a verbal disturbance up the street to momentarily distract postal workers attention). ...
- wileydragonfly 2y agoCockeyed
- pavel_lishin 2y agoMan, that's a blast from the past. I loved Rob Cockerham's projects.