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and what can happen when you mail something, like car alarm remote, car key, ring, minis, or anything other than paper OR even too much paper in a normal size envelope.

Here is a friend of mine from work and a pic he posted online of a 'jam' in part of the machine. Needless to say, some of the mail was destroyed, damaged or at least crumpled. Picture a truck getting stuck in a tunnel and everyone else behind it hitting it.

So to the recent trader who didn't want to pay more than 1-2 stamps postage for some bits in an envelope; this is what would have happened. The bits would have been destroyed.

The mail moves at 170 inches per second with a 2 inch gap between them.

Your mail related posts are both enlightening and a little scary, considering I've done most of the no-nos at one point or another.

HawtFist wrote:Your mail related posts are both enlightening and a little scary, considering I've done most of the no-nos at one point or another.

That's the point.

We see this daily. And someone will complain that the "damn post office lost my [blank]" when they mail something like this.
Sometimes, we can find the right envelope and put most of it back together. Sometimes it's just confetti.

To add onto what kt's saying...
This is why these posts are so damned valuable. If you do something wrong enough, but it never gets noticed/caught, you'll start to envision is as "okay" or 'the right way" or "an acceptable short-cut/alteration on normal procedures." Then, once your short cut causes a problem, you're just taken aback. "It was never a problem before." As it turns out, it WAS a problem, you were just fortunate enough that it never backfired on you before now.

(This is a generic "you," and not specifically aimed at any individual)

Eric