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Yet another United States Postal Service employee is joining The Mail Carrier Hall Of Shame, after being accused of dumping hundreds of pieces of mail into a ditch — while a local filmed the whole thing.
The USPS is investigating after residents in Decatur, GA reported seeing a mail carrier throwing several bins of mail into the woods behind a subdivision, WSB-TV reports.
The subdivision's HOA president witnessed the dumping on Tuesday, and sent the news station video and photos of incident.
"I sat there and recorded for about five minutes. And he continued to just grab more mail and continued to just toss it over the fence," she told WSB-TV. "At one point he actually stopped and took a break like he was tired, and continued to toss the mail. He eventually drove off like it was normal."
The station tipped off USPS, and the agency dispatched investigators to the scene. Once there, it took five postal workers two hours to collect more than a dozen bins' worth of mail.
- https://consumerist.com/2016/10/20/video-shows-usps-worker-dumping-bins-of-mail-in-a-ditch/
https://web.archive.org/web/20161023092445/https://consumerist.com/2016/10/20/video-shows-usps-worker-dumping-bins-of-mail-in-a-ditch/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20161023092445/http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/dekalb-county/thousands-of-pieces-of-mail-dumped-in-woods-usps-launches-investigation/458775917
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Monday October 24 2016, @06:45PM
the failure rate is about 1 in 100e6 or 1e-8? Thats a success rate of 7 nines? Seven nines reliability is pretty good for a data center or email in general.
Right .... so the USPS should do nothing about it ? They could even buy the video of this happening and use it to advertise how good their service is. Will you mind if they quote your calcs too?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday October 24 2016, @08:15PM
Well, you can tell them what to do.
What I'd do is not worry about my snail mail being lost because its apparently kinda unlikely, and moving stuff from snail mail to email would seem to be a net reliability loss so I wouldn't do that either.
Its also interesting to look at it from the opposite direction. When some data center salesdroid tries to sell you some random number of nines (with crazy criteria such that nothing ever "counts" even when its down) then you can visualize 7 nines of data center reliability as being kinda like some dude tossing out a couple crates of mail every decade. There isn't much else to compare a statistic like that to.