Imagine 65,000,000 Americans finding out they won't be getting Social Security benefits

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45. My neighbor the postal worker

Was there in the early 2000s when some kind of glitch happened with the postal bar codes on checks or the envelope they were mailed in. Post offices all over the country were getting mail not only for the wrong post office, but for the wrong states entirely--not even similar named places. So Philadelphia offices would get checks for Salem, Oregon or Detroit, Michigan, or Athens, Georgia--there was neither rhyme nor reason to where checks went. Something about a new computer system, and some glitches with the software? And the worst of it was, the postal workers had no idea what was going on, until a fax or email came through from SSA explaining the glitch. So post offices were printing up their own signs and putting them on the doors warning potential SS recipients about the problem, to call SSA and not take it out on innocent USPS workers.

Until that notice finally came, every post office was nearly a war zone with irate recipients abusing postal workers to hand over checks that they didn't have.