Literal minded machines

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Stupid address checker.
Our last mailing list run bounced One Glen Square (it's 1 Glen St.), 6801 Jerichp Rd (Jericho) and from 245 Rodger Ave (Roger Ave.).

Back in the oooooollllddd days, the letter carrier would be allowed the brains to intervene on these things. Now, if the address doesn't conform exactly, it's kicked out as Undeliverable. The USPS is saving their money by making our company spend the money (me) to clean these things up.

I can see a future where we don't even have human letter carriers, we just have little automated jeeps who put only the correctly addressed mail into the correctly sized boxes located an appropriate distance from the curb.

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When I lived in Burlington, Vermont, I got a piece of mail one day that was addressed to my brother who did not live with me, or live within thirty miles of me, as a matter of fact. Our last names are the same, and our first names are kinda similar, but the address was totally wrong. I just gave it to him and chalked one up to helpful postal carriers :)