Poor Alf. This horrifying realization has ushered in the darkest period of his life since that furry, penis-nosed alien stole his name in the '80s. There's no telling how he missed the prominently placed dog symbol on the front of the box, unless he just assumed his mail carrier was a greyhound with a satchel. On the bright side, a box of dog shit is pretty much exactly as dependable as the U.S. Postal Service.
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Saddened. | 10/06/2011 flag |
This isn't funny at all. It saddens me. My heart goes out to this gentleman. :( At 91, I'm pretty sure no one's eyesight is 100%.
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Kate | 08/29/2011 flag |
This is funny, but I agree the dig at USPS seems misplaced. I don't think they've ever lost anything of mine. Certainly nothing important. Poor old man, though... hahahahahaha.
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Shane | 08/16/2011 flag |
This was a UK story and to be fair the source is not your average 'newspaper'. The Sunday Sport is abut 90% pictures of topless girls.
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Gabrielle | 08/12/2011 flag |
This was in North Yorkshire, UK.
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Billy Brightside | 08/12/2011 flag |
"On the bright side, a box of dog shit is pretty much exactly as dependable as the U.S. Postal Service." HAHAHAHA!!
I work in mailing — not for the PO but for a private company that produces a lot of direct mail — so I can honestly say that the post office does a pretty amazing job getting all the stuff they handle delivered. However when you mail litterally thousands of pieces a week, and sometimes hundreds of thousands a day, you see a lot of returns and wierd stuff happen to some of it.
This also reminds me of this woman I used to work with who would put all of her personalized garbage into an electrical transformer box instead of the shredder cans it was supposed to go into. A maintenence guy finally opened it up and found years worth of burned and yellowed paper in there. It's amazing she never started a fire. -
beth | 08/12/2011 flag |
I think this is a UK newspaper!
And I second Bob - post office is an easy dig, but for a few pence it's pretty nice to know it will reach the recipient, which it inevitably does. -
Bob | 08/12/2011 flag |
This is hilarious, but I do have to question the dig at the US Postal Service. Do people actually have problems with letters being lost? I'm 31, I don't think I've ever had anything get misplaced in the mail, either from or to me. I mean... for 40-something cents I think they have a pretty good track record. Maybe I'm an exception.
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Gabrielle | 08/12/2011 flag |
I put a bunch of postcards in the bin once, when I was on holiday in Europe. It dawned on me eventually what I'd done, when the cards didn't arrive... Poor old geezer!
