Good as gold

[chuckleslord@lemmy.world]

I remember it as a kid, but they don't allow it anymore. It fucks with high-speed sorters

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

As a kid, I tried to mail a letter without a stamp by having the return address be the address I wanted to send it and my address as the destination address. They put the letter back in my own mail box, so technically I mailed a letter for free.

[asteriskeverything@lemmy.world]

USPS is amazing
Where is their thin colored line? Real "boys in blue"

[evacuatesoul@lemmy.world]

Yep, when we visited most of the houses had little names they would use for their address. Villa Bonita 200m S of xxx

[21cabbage@lemmynsfw.com]

I could strongly be wrong but I think that one is something you can sort of pull off IIRC.

[retrograde@lemmy.world]

Postal Secret Service has entered chat

[captainblagbird@lemmy.world]

Where I live, the mail would also be delivered, but the return address would get a request for payment letter by the postal service. At least that's what happened when my letter was 1g too heavy for the paid format.

[twitches@lemm.ee]

That makes sense.

[aimizo@lemmy.world]

Well 50 cents hasn’t been enough for a domestic stamp since January 2019, so probably not. It’s currently 73 cents.

[brbposting@sh.itjust.works]

Those are forever quarters though aren’t they

[burgersc12@mander.xyz]

Just tape another quarter to it, or like two dimes and 3 pennies but that seems a bit crazy.

[prime_minister_keyes@lemm.ee]

Mail Fraud? You're in a lot of trouble, buddy.

[fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de]

At that point, why not write latitude and longitude and be done with it?

[thirteene@lemmy.world]

I attempted to find the article but search engines are terrible. They mentioned that advertising companies often have a book of mail tests; things they attempted to mail to see if they would be permitted. Some of the examples included:

A sock with an address written on it, partial addresses, wet paper, vague addresses like your example, local names like "sues bar", tom cruises house, a sandwich in a bag, poster board, flags. They get pretty creative and like a record of what might work for pitch meetings. Generally if it looks plausible, they attempt it.

[intensely_human@lemm.ee]

Dude your mom’s a forever quarter

[empireoflove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Where is their thin colored line?

It's a thin yellow line exiting directly out of Louis DeJoy's dick hole

[halosheep@lemm.ee]

That or you give them every detail they need and they just don't bother.

Still mad that half my wedding invitations never made it to their ending destination.

[elliot_crane@lemmy.world]

I mean.. if it was enough to cover a stamp and I was the post office worker, I’d be a bro about it.

[robust_mirror@aussie.zone]

How Google Maps fixed India's street name problem

[nigelfrobisher@aussie.zone]

They’re to give to the boatman.