What can happen to a letter in the mail

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What can happen to a letter in the mail

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and what can happen when you mail something, like car alarm remote, car key, ring, minis, or anything other than paper OR even too much paper in a normal size envelope.

Here is a friend of mine from work and a pic he posted online of a 'jam' in part of the machine. Needless to say, some of the mail was destroyed, damaged or at least crumpled. Picture a truck getting stuck in a tunnel and everyone else behind it hitting it.

So to the recent trader who didn't want to pay more than 1-2 stamps postage for some bits in an envelope; this is what would have happened. The bits would have been destroyed.

The mail moves at 170 inches per second with a 2 inch gap between them.
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Re: What can happen to a letter in the mail

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Your mail related posts are both enlightening and a little scary, considering I've done most of the no-nos at one point or another.
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HawtFist wrote:Your mail related posts are both enlightening and a little scary, considering I've done most of the no-nos at one point or another.

That's the point.

We see this daily. And someone will complain that the "damn post office lost my [blank]" when they mail something like this.
Sometimes, we can find the right envelope and put most of it back together. Sometimes it's just confetti.
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Re: What can happen to a letter in the mail

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To add onto what kt's saying...
This is why these posts are so damned valuable. If you do something wrong enough, but it never gets noticed/caught, you'll start to envision is as "okay" or 'the right way" or "an acceptable short-cut/alteration on normal procedures." Then, once your short cut causes a problem, you're just taken aback. "It was never a problem before." As it turns out, it WAS a problem, you were just fortunate enough that it never backfired on you before now.

(This is a generic "you," and not specifically aimed at any individual)

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