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USPS GOAT. Fuck privatización.
Milten Friedman is the reason we are where we are today.
Imagine shipping this tiny little box and it weighs 60 pounds. Poor mailman.
Last package of the da… Yo wtf?!?
Not to be a killjoy but your basic mailman has a pretty low weight limit on the parcels they take.
at a typical temperature and pressure, sure.
8 5/8" x 5 3/8" x 1 5/8"
Don’t write yourself off yet, learn metric.
For most of the rest of the world, that’s about 219 mm × 137 mm × 41,3 mm
For those of us that don’t use arbitrary made up units at all, that’s 1.35515609E+34 Planck Length x 8.477460474E+33 Planck Length x 2.555613997E+33 Plank Length.
Use real measurements. A meter is how far light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second? Statements made by the utterly deranged.
Finally a truly universally usable measurement for everyday use
It’s because all the packages have the same domestic weight limit.
Seems silly, but makes sense in the context.
Okay so I originally assumed this was probably due to some union rule or something like that. But I didn’t find any reference to it in the NALC guidelines, anything in the USPS resources center (which is hard to use), anything in google searches, and the original employee documentation or spec.
I did find the USPS History section and it turns out they have someone whose job title is “Postal Historian”, Stephen Kochersperger.
But, anyways, I found the address (not email of course haha) for the USPS history office so I have wrote up an letter and put it in the mailbox. I will eventually update yall
you can balloon the box out a ways to get more volume
Anyone else notice that a large flat rate box has the same limit and the post only counts a small flat rate box?
What about one tablespoon of material from a neutron star?
What about a ’ shrodingers 71 pounds ’ cat.’
