Zippedy-Do-Da
(old post from way back in 2006)
WOW! Has it really been this long since I’ve posted here? Shame shame on me – but I won’t make any feeble promises to post more often – because that’s a promise I just KNOW I can’t keep!We’re getting ready for the big move to Okinawa, so I am collecting friends’ addresses, emails, phone numbers, etc…and I was transferring them to my little Rolodex – when I noticed that I had forgotten to get the zip code of one of my friends.No problem – I’m computer literate, I can look it up on the United States Postal Service website. But, for some reason, when I went to “zip code lookup” at the USPS site, they asked me for the house numbers, street name, city, and zip. YES. THE zip. They asked ME for the zip code – por que? So they can tell me what I already know? Or is it so they don’t have to tell me anything! Or is it that I am a secret shopper for the postal service, so secret even I didn’t know by the way, and as the postal secret shopper, my job is to ensure that they are all doing their jobs. Well. Sorry guys. I’m marking you down for a D plus on this little test!It would have been an F if the zip code box had been marked “required” and not an optional field; then I REALLY would have had a blast with it – but as far as I’m concerned, it was funny enough as it was anyway! :op
(old post from way back in 2006)
WOW! Has it really been this long since I’ve posted here? Shame shame on me – but I won’t make any feeble promises to post more often – because that’s a promise I just KNOW I can’t keep!We’re getting ready for the big move to Okinawa, so I am collecting friends’ addresses, emails, phone numbers, etc…and I was transferring them to my little Rolodex – when I noticed that I had forgotten to get the zip code of one of my friends.No problem – I’m computer literate, I can look it up on the United States Postal Service website. But, for some reason, when I went to “zip code lookup” at the USPS site, they asked me for the house numbers, street name, city, and zip. YES. THE zip. They asked ME for the zip code – por que? So they can tell me what I already know? Or is it so they don’t have to tell me anything! Or is it that I am a secret shopper for the postal service, so secret even I didn’t know by the way, and as the postal secret shopper, my job is to ensure that they are all doing their jobs. Well. Sorry guys. I’m marking you down for a D plus on this little test!It would have been an F if the zip code box had been marked “required” and not an optional field; then I REALLY would have had a blast with it – but as far as I’m concerned, it was funny enough as it was anyway! :op
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