Ruriko addressed a package to Chicago, including the zip code, but left off “IL.” It got flown back to Japan. Ruriko: “I have *so many* questions now.”
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Should have arrived with the zip. Then again a Chicago postal worker once dumped their daily route under a bridge for ~18 years before getting caught.
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Ogaki remembers that to this day. They cited it to me when expressing cautious disbelief about the official timing for delivery of my absentee ballot in 2012.
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TIL “failmerged”
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This isn’t actually English, don’t let me corrupt you. The joke is a portmanteau of “mail merge” (the process by which you address a lot of letters from a spreadsheet in e.g. MS Word) and “fail.”
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same energy as the letter addressed with handwritten mojibake (which got de-mojibake'd successfully)pic.twitter.com/DDziKAAFZM
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I once sent a letter via USPS to
@lotharrr on which, if I recall correctly, every single item in “To:” address, including his name, was a humorous homophone or cognate, except for the ZIP code. He received it. -
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@ambimorph once sent a letter for me to 123 College Ave instead of to 1200 College Ave #123. When I found out from her via phone call, I raced to the nearest USPS office and found it waiting in the back room. - 1 more reply
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I have seen people in Sweden receive mail that only has "<Their name>, Sweden" on it.
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My father once sent me a package using a label with my Japanese address printed from a JPEG. He does not read Japanese and had literally only printed the left half of it as the picture had been incorrectly scaled and clipped when printing. Of course it arrived without a problem.
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This reminds me of the (possibly apocryphal) story of a boy sending fan mail to Salvador Dali addressed with only a drawing of his moustache and having it actually get delivered. Or the more recent:https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/50a5pk/without_an_address_an_icelandic_tourist_drew_this/ …
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