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December 19, 2005
How to Not Write Your Address
When you send something through the US Mail, don't write your phone number or anything else with five digits under your address. Turns out the scanners read your address from bottom to top and assume the numbers in the bottom right is the zip code. Best case scenario, the machine can't match the numbers with a real zip code, rejects your package and a person has to manually figure out where it's supposed to go, and the cost of mailing a package is still higher. If those numbers align with a legitimate zip code, your mail will be misrouted. To Grand Central Station if the last five digits of your phone number are 1-0017.
Posted by Niels Olson at December 19, 2005 5:33 PM
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