boingboing: Boxes sealed with ATHEIST tape lost by USPS 10X more often than controls

Atheist Shoes ("a cadre of shoemakers and artists in Berlin who hand-make ridiculously comfortable, Bauhaus-inspired shoes for people who don't believe in god(s)") noticed that a disproportionate number of their shipments to the USA were delayed or lost. A ( Read more... )

So I book LAS-YVR and YVR-SFO, because S. is graduating from high school on Thursday. For the SFO-LAS return leg I am planning on using Southwest because my parents have some extraneous flights they want to cancel and some of those funds are going to expire in October ( Read more... )

I mailed my federal tax return (my circumstances require me to file a paper return) about a week ago, after hours, using one of the Automated Postal Centers -- certified mail, electronic receipt. For the next few days the online tracking system said something like "we have been notified by the APC to expect your shipment for mailing" (this is ( Read more... )

Pumpkin pie makes men hornier: "Out of the 40 odors tested in Hirsch's study, a mixture of lavender and pumpkin pie got the biggest rise out of men ages 18 to 64. That particular fragrance was found to increase penile blood flow by an average of 40%."

Your Thanksgiving turkey might have arsenic in it. Enjoy.

These would be great with gwak-a-mole ( Read more... )

After leaving DMV today, I did some miscellaneous shopping and errands and just got home, stopping by my mailbox on the way (I may have mentioned before, all the mailboxes for the block are in one central stand in the middle of the block). Among the various pieces of mail (including my Netflix Blu-ray of Something Something Something Dark Side -- ( Read more... )

I called DMV today to confirm what I already suspected, namely that my 3rd and most recent attempt to have a NV drivers license issued to me has once again ended in futility (click on either the dmv tag or the usps tag for the story so far). They told me that yes, it was sent on Dec. 30th and returned to them on Jan 6th. So I once more assembled ( Read more... )

I just finished a French dip sandwich at Arby's, and now I am using curly fries to fish chunks of roast beef out of the au jus.

I'm out and about doing another iteration of the post office/DMV saga -- this time I have a smoking gun, in the form of one of the test envelopes I sent myself using jnala's return address, which got rejected as "moved, unable ( Read more... )

( Dueling bureaucracies )

I called NV DMV today to ask about my driver's license, since they'd said it would take maybe 10 days to arrive in the mail and we're coming up on a month and still nothing. They said it was sent out on the 11th (plausible, I went to DMV on the 10th) and returned as undeliverable on the 18th. WTF? I've been getting my mail here practically since ( Read more... )

Followup to this post, I received my first locals mailer from the Gold Coast a day or two ago (free play broken up into multiple smaller weekly amounts, instead of "come stay with us and get a chunk-o-freeplay; also dining coupons ( Read more... )