Re: You Can't Spell "Stupid..."

On 2005-12-28, Norman L. DeForest <af380@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Gene Cash wrote:
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>> Dave Buckles <dbuckles@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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>> > As a good friend of mine--who flies A300's for UPS--says frequently,
>> > "you can't spell stupid without UPS."
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>> Damn. That really does suck.
> [snip]
>> UPS dropped a Dull server off for us. Literally. The case was a nice
>> parallelepiped with no right angles anywhere. It took me several hours
>> and lots of nicks and cuts to get the drives out. To my surprise they
>> were all readable w/o errors, though I trust them even less than I
>> usually trust Maxtors.
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>> The best part was being able to say "I tolyaaso" many many times to my
>> manager, as I'd predicted this exact scenario. And making him fight UPS
>> for the payback, since I had specifically and emphatically refused this
>> particular chore beforehand. In writing.
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>> I remember when /. had an article on a server damaged by UPS and it hit
>> over 3,000 comments with similar stories. I predict this thread will
>> grow similarly.[2]
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> I have never had anything damaged but I have had a lot of mail of
> mine (as recipient and as sender) just disappear without a trace.
> (That's why I send anything important by registered mail.) I know
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I used to live at an address that went;
The Cottage
School Lane
<TOWN>
<POSTCODE>[1]

Nearby, there were *at least* three other addresses that went;
The Cottage
School Lane
<SUBURB>
<TOWN>
<POSTCODE>[2]

Mail deliveries were erratic, to say the least. To add insult to
injury, though, this was around the time that the Post Office used to
frank everything with a message that read "Please use the Post Code".


[1]
I don't know how specific Zip and other postcodes are, but a UK Post
Code can evaluate to as little as *part* of a street. Theoretically, a
letter addressed with a house number and a post code is deliverable.

[2]
Always seemed to be present on the letters misdirected to me, which
was why I used to write "Wrongly delivered, please use the Post Code"
in thick red felt tip on the envelope before reposting it.

K.
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