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Showing Original Post only (View all)Packages Sealed with "Atheist" Tape Go Missing 10X More Often [View all]
From http://io9.com/packages-sealed-with-atheist-tape-go-missing-10x-more-460984925 :
ATHEIST SHOES is a German based-company that, as its name suggests, makes comfy kicks "for people who don't believe in god(s)." The company regularly ships shoes, like the ones pictured above, to America. When it does, it seals its boxes with tape featuring the company logo, which is stylized as "ATHEIST · ATHEIST · ATHEIST" (see below). But these shipments often run into problems.
The company explains on its website that shoes shipped the U.S. often take longer than they should to arrive, or go missing altogether. "When some of our customers asked us not to use ATHEIST-branded packing tape on their shipments, we started to wonder if the delays were caused by the US Postal Service taking offence at our overt godlessness."
"So," the company writes, "we launched an experiment."
More at the link.
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I've often wondered about that in this RW stronghold here. Also, something weird happened
RKP5637
Mar 2013
#77
BT did say "almost". We need a logic forum around here; unless a poster explicitly says "ALL x is y"
patrice
Mar 2013
#81
I know for a fact that certain mail handlers deliberately interfere with Jewish publications. n/t
Ian David
Mar 2013
#3
This is way in the past. And we did work with the postal inspector. But nobody went to jail.
Ian David
Mar 2013
#62
so you say but i can baldly assert the opposite and we are at an impasse.
Phillip McCleod
Mar 2013
#21
This happens to me every time I try to mail an atheist to my friend in California
Orrex
Mar 2013
#63
DHL is the German Post Office; once in the USA, it's the USPS handling it
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2013
#61
No. DHL transports packages with tracking to its own facilities near the final destinations, then
struggle4progress
Mar 2013
#73
Not exactly. DHL is a private company, that happens to provide German postal services. Worldwide,
struggle4progress
Mar 2013
#72
Nope. I provided graphics from the DHL shipping pages and links to the pages. If you read the
struggle4progress
Mar 2013
#85
Feel free to provide any actual evidence. I've provided any number of links by now.
struggle4progress
Mar 2013
#106
What part of primary shipper is DHL are you having a problem comprehending here
nadinbrzezinski
Mar 2013
#25
Probably not: Deutsch Post DHL handles German mail, so the shoe company
struggle4progress
Mar 2013
#75
again, for the sake of clarity, this OP is in regards to 'lost' packages
Phillip McCleod
Mar 2013
#49
Yeah $160 is pretty spendy for shoes. Although I can kind of see it if they're actually made in Ger.
Erose999
Mar 2013
#92
DHL handles the package until it is very close to the final destination,
struggle4progress
Mar 2013
#88
If you have evidence of mail tampering, or failure of a postal employee to perform
struggle4progress
Mar 2013
#91
Accusations IMO ought to be supported by evidence; speculation, not closely
struggle4progress
Mar 2013
#104
Correction: A package that does not arrive at its destination, after being transferred to the USPS,
struggle4progress
Mar 2013
#124
By far the most likely explanation is that the text on the tape is causing sorting problems.
BlueCheese
Mar 2013
#60
Great success...Never heard of this company before; now the whole country knows about them
Blue_Tires
Mar 2013
#121
Well a package suspected to contain an Atheist may recieve more scrutiny from US Customs.
Erose999
Mar 2013
#95
I'd be just as concerned if I saw a package that said "Catholic" or "Jew". One might think the pkg
Erose999
Mar 2013
#102
Hmmm, that's the style I have been interested in lately, not that particular rendition of it though.
patrice
Mar 2013
#83
So maybe they don't know where to send atheists after they arrive in the afterlife?
undeterred
Mar 2013
#120