Speaking of the USPS, I just revived an old paper I wrote back in high school. The assignment was to write about the one thing we’d always wanted to learn about, but never had the chance to explore. Being nerdy, it didn’t take me long to know I wanted to look at the post office.
Digitally remastered (i.e., I converted it to LaTeX because it was easy and fun), I present to you my I-Search paper.
It’s not great, but I still enjoy it. While I was re-reading it, I remembered that I promised to email the final version to those I interviewed. I’m sure postal employees don’t get much in the way of fan mail, so I felt compelled to follow through. I still had the USPS employee’s business card (miraculously), and shot off an email.
A second later, I received the following email:
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
jahlgren@usps.gov
Aw, he wasn’t there anymore… Well, Jim Ahlgren, if you ever google for your name, here’s hoping this comes up.
But that wasn’t the best part: the email came from—yes, you guessed it—postmaster@usps.gov!
Googling to see if others had been hit by this awesomeness, I found that the IETF beat me to it:
The objection is that by using the Postmaster token for something special, one removes that token for anyone. Thus, the Postmaster General of the United States, for example, cannot have the mail address
Postmaster@usps.gov. However, one may debate whether this is a significant limitation.
P.S.: For all my LaTeX peeps, definitely check out the microtype package. One simple \usepackage{microtype} in the preamble of your document really spruces it up. Check the documentation for all it does for you. N.B.: This only works for pdfTeX, but you are already using that, right?
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