Cub Driver wrote:

For years after this became a non-issue, the local post office had a
fierce-tempered clerk named Wally who kept a ball of string behind the
counter. If you gave him a taped package, he handed it back with the
string, and until you'd tied it to his satisfaction, he wouldn't
accept it for mailing.

Yet another reason for the success of UPS.

George Patterson
None of us is as dumb as all of us.