Atheist Shoes goes plain brown wrapper
2013-03-27 15:11:24.078785+01 by
Dan Lyke
5 comments
Berlin based Atheist
Shoes was seeing a large number of packages shipped to the
U.S. lost or delayed, so they ran a study, shipping some
packages without the brand on the tape, and some packages with.
Having run a series of control tests in Germany and
Europe, which demonstrate no such bias, the problem appears to
lie in the USA and is likely explained by the differential
handling of packages by the employees of the US Postal
Service. Interestingly, this seems to be a national problem -
traditionally less religious and more liberal states also saw
high levels of delay and disappearance. Sadly, many of our
customers who took part in this experiment were not surprised by
our findings, even though tampering with post is a Federal
Offence.
So they've dropped the "ATHEIST" packing-tape on shipments to the US.
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comments in ascending chronological order (reverse):
#Comment Re: made: 2013-03-29 17:34:03.323085+01 by:
petronius
Atheist shoes have no soles.
#Comment Re: made: 2013-03-29 17:34:08.785316+01 by:
petronius
#Comment Re: made: 2013-03-30 00:11:09.763339+01 by:
Dan Lyke
Snort. I guess it's a god-given miracle when USPS actually delivers your package.
#Comment Re: made: 2013-04-01 15:09:41.684885+02 by:
m
A delivery service failing to provide what it promises appears to be a local
issue, possibly driver oriented. I never have had a problem with UPS (the driver
and I share an interest in photography,) but FedEx and DHL can be a problem.
#Comment Re: made: 2013-04-01 17:42:00.955182+02 by:
Dan Lyke
Just to clarify: This was USPS (ie: U.S. Postal Service), not UPS.
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