What Happens if the Mail Can't Read Your Handwriting?

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  • @hereLiesThisTroper
    @hereLiesThisTroper 3 роки тому +6193

    Just hire a bunch of Pharmacists. They have years of experience reading the handwriting of Doctors

    • @kayleighlehrman9566
      @kayleighlehrman9566 3 роки тому +329

      Ah yes, the pharmacy-to-usps pipeline

    • @DecemberGalaxy0
      @DecemberGalaxy0 3 роки тому +140

      And many have died due to wrong prescriptions

    • @CarlosBunn
      @CarlosBunn 3 роки тому +211

      I'm like 60% sure the pharmacist just gives you the medicine he knows you should get for your condition.

    • @joshuamatthews8326
      @joshuamatthews8326 3 роки тому +26

      I always wondered how they read those things lol

    • @alecneuschaefer4172
      @alecneuschaefer4172 3 роки тому +120

      A doctor commits suicide, and it takes a pharmacist to read the suicide note.

  • @adrielsebastian5216
    @adrielsebastian5216 3 роки тому +1164

    99 Electric Gloves sounds like a parody of 99 Luftballons awfully written by an AI.

    • @MrNateSPF
      @MrNateSPF 3 роки тому +15

      Weird AI.

    • @OryxTheMadGod3
      @OryxTheMadGod3 3 роки тому +21

      its weird cause "ninetynine electric gloves" fits perfectly with the song

    • @marekmichalovic8711
      @marekmichalovic8711 3 роки тому +43

      99 Electric gloves
      So no current trough you will pass
      Protecting you from volts and amps
      But thought the sender included stamps
      his writing was... well, it quite sucked
      I got them at an auction for a buck
      So no current trough me will pass!

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 роки тому +13

      @@marekmichalovic8711 [AI-generated guitar solo]

    • @ABW941
      @ABW941 3 роки тому +32

      @@marekmichalovic8711 99 Schutzhandschuhe zu helfen Oma's Seelenruhe, verfingen sich im Postsystem, das war nicht wirklich angenehm. 99 Postminister, Umschlag- und Papiergeknister, waren keine schlauen Leute, verhökerten die Handschuhbeute...

  • @WomboAnimals
    @WomboAnimals 3 роки тому +1141

    Just sent this to my middle school teacher,she used to yell at me for the wierd calligraphy I put her through

    • @RCT3ClubPenguin
      @RCT3ClubPenguin 3 роки тому +29

      I don't even remember my middle school teacher...

    • @MetallicMutalisk
      @MetallicMutalisk 3 роки тому +27

      now the video will be lost in mail

    • @aminelswefy1808
      @aminelswefy1808 3 роки тому +3

      @@MetallicMutalisk lol

    • @Jay-qb9gi
      @Jay-qb9gi 3 роки тому +5

      I’m almost out of high school and I remember my middle school teacher

    • @thisisntsergio1352
      @thisisntsergio1352 3 роки тому +8

      @@Jay-qb9gi not much time has passed since you last went to middle school, plus you spent a higher proportion of your life in middle school than an adult so you remember more.

  • @ZenizhivGreen
    @ZenizhivGreen 3 роки тому +2670

    Imagine sending a motorcycles, but got sold by the government for your bad handwriting

    • @DangNguyen-xx3zi
      @DangNguyen-xx3zi 3 роки тому +432

      All the effort spent fitting a motorcycle into the mailbox is wasted

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer 3 роки тому +169

      @@DangNguyen-xx3zi the bigger question where do you stick the postal stamp? on the seat?

    • @DangNguyen-xx3zi
      @DangNguyen-xx3zi 3 роки тому +177

      @@sirBrouwer given the amount of stamps you need, I'd say everywhere

    • @cakearmy_maxgaming6346
      @cakearmy_maxgaming6346 3 роки тому +105

      That motorcycle was likely confiscated, not mailed. Govdeals is used by many government organizations.

    • @ZenizhivGreen
      @ZenizhivGreen 3 роки тому +18

      @@cakearmy_maxgaming6346 ok nerd

  • @Duck-wc9de
    @Duck-wc9de 3 роки тому +720

    once when I was a kid I sent a letter to my grandmother. 2 moths latter I recived it back with the stamp
    with the stamp with the post office logo saying "cancelled". concluded that I had put the district name instead of the city name and resubmitted it. of course I was upset because the price of stamps had doubled from 20 cents to 40 cents who knows why. a month later we decided to stay at my grandmother's house for christmas. I learned that the letter had never arrived. At the end of that week, the letter arrived, I found the situation very strange and I kept the letter. thanks to the inefficiency of the Portuguese post office, I sent a letter to myself across the country.

    • @dotmashrc
      @dotmashrc 3 роки тому +133

      you can do a lot more in india. you just write a letter to your own address. then you have a son, who then has a son, who then recieves the mail. lovely, ikr?

    • @AnaDazuva
      @AnaDazuva 3 роки тому +2

      Ala um português

    • @Duck-wc9de
      @Duck-wc9de 3 роки тому +4

      @@AnaDazuva nós estamos em todo o lado. Ahahahaba

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 роки тому +13

      @snarl banarl You can be 100% certain that no one will be able to open it for years.

    • @FoxieDay
      @FoxieDay 3 роки тому +3

      @@Duck-wc9de olá dos Açores :3

  • @ShortHax
    @ShortHax 3 роки тому +3401

    Simple, scan all the doctor’s writing as a barcode and it’ll give you the address

    • @itismethatguy
      @itismethatguy 3 роки тому +10

      Do maths writers like me count

    • @erickzuniga3113
      @erickzuniga3113 3 роки тому +51

      I work at a hospital as a nurse and my handwriting is trash. One day another nurse told me to just write in all caps, best piece of advice ever. All men in healthcare should do so.

    • @abhidnyavbh
      @abhidnyavbh 3 роки тому +3

      @@erickzuniga3113 yes but not every medical worker has bad handwriting
      My dad is a doctor but he has a really good handwriting

    • @erickzuniga3113
      @erickzuniga3113 3 роки тому +8

      @@abhidnyavbh relax. There's no such thing as an Absolute. I'm just saying for the majority of us...

    • @abhidnyavbh
      @abhidnyavbh 3 роки тому +1

      @@trollrat2828 no actually

  • @RockyTanker
    @RockyTanker 3 роки тому +1090

    If this was a doctor's handwriting the machine would literally give up

    • @InfinityBS
      @InfinityBS 3 роки тому +12

      Say that to my dad 😂😂 His handwriting is almost unreadable but I’ve gotten used to it so I can understand a bit

    • @livewellwitheds6885
      @livewellwitheds6885 3 роки тому +11

      just blows up and catches fire

    • @havanadaurcy1321
      @havanadaurcy1321 3 роки тому

      Say that to my new (to me) optometrist always given the 'here we go' treatment by Costco. They have given wrong online orders to people because 'his writing is too damn small'

  • @laurenconrad1799
    @laurenconrad1799 3 роки тому +727

    My handwriting is terrible, but there are people skilled enough to read it. I was once rewriting notes from a college class in an intentionally messy way, not so I could reread the notes but as a motor memory technique to memorize the concepts. Then my college friend picked it up and managed to read it and I was like, how on earth??? I can barely read it. Turns out she has a brother with even worse handwriting. haha

    • @0Clewi0
      @0Clewi0 3 роки тому +103

      I get it, you don't read your notes, you decipher them

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 роки тому +52

      Is this how they train doctors in medical school?

    • @Shouk02
      @Shouk02 2 роки тому +1

      Lol i had awful notes in high school and when i was reviewing for a test i couldn’t read them but my mom could read them just fine... might help shes a pharmacist

  • @EdMcF1
    @EdMcF1 3 роки тому +193

    In England, someone addressed a letter with three lines, the first was 'Wood' the next line 'John' and the third was 'Hants.' (short for the county of 'Hampshire'). The Royal Mail staff cracked it as addressed to a man in a town in Hampshire called 'Andover' and it was to 'John Underwood, Andover, Hants.'

    • @____soda
      @____soda 3 роки тому +83

      the guy who wrote the letter probably designs riddles for a living

    • @RGC_animation
      @RGC_animation 3 роки тому +18

      The next designer of the Escape Room

    • @Doorisessa
      @Doorisessa 3 роки тому +38

      I deliver mail, and when I get something that is incompletely addressed, there's a part of me that wants to take it back for further sorting out of pure spite, even when I know exactly where it's supposed to go, because I don't want to encourage people not to address their mail properly. (this is in Finland)

    • @ToastGreeting
      @ToastGreeting 2 роки тому +12

      @@Doorisessa use a red pen to fill in the missing information, return to sender, then let them mail it again

    • @Xeroxia
      @Xeroxia 2 роки тому +1

      @@ToastGreeting that’s good

  • @Xanthelei
    @Xanthelei 3 роки тому +173

    There is a step you missed (that I only know because my mom used to work in a post office sorting facility): rejected mail gets a once-over by a worker at the sorting facility it was going through, and if they can read it or figure out where it's supposed to go they print a sticker with the info the machine will need to keep it moving, stick it on the front, and hand sort it to be sent off. This also happens with stuff that gets rejected for reasons other than bad handwriting, like overweight, damaged, insufficient postage, etc.

    • @hoodzzeee
      @hoodzzeee 3 роки тому +20

      Can confirm as former mail centre technician.
      Fun fact: If we had the sorting machines purring at a 95% sort rate they could process 35,000 letters/hr. There were 4 machines operating 16 hrs/ day

    • @Kaneko69.
      @Kaneko69. 3 роки тому +7

      Can confirm as a cheese loving human being.

  • @Steven_Edwards
    @Steven_Edwards 3 роки тому +112

    Protip: if you want to send contraband via the mail, make damn sure it has a legible address so it stays in the automated system and has a minimal amount of human interaction.

  • @axiezimmah
    @axiezimmah 3 роки тому +695

    Imagine a joke so bad, HAI doesn't include it in his videos.

    • @giuliacatalena9409
      @giuliacatalena9409 3 роки тому +21

      Impossible.

    • @InfinityBS
      @InfinityBS 3 роки тому +46

      How to find out if a joke is a really bad joke:
      Send it to HAI. If he doesn’t put it in a video, then you know it’s really really bad

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 роки тому +9

      The jokes they *do* use are war crimes, I don't want to imagine the atrocities they leave out.

    • @chl_ca
      @chl_ca 3 роки тому +4

      @@InfinityBS or he will actually use them but block the video behind a paywall

    • @fica1137
      @fica1137 3 роки тому +1

      Matpat jokes

  • @Xathal
    @Xathal 3 роки тому +169

    Imagine being so early you get to watch the no-ad at the start version on UA-cam

    • @AxxLAfriku
      @AxxLAfriku 3 роки тому

      I have fewer than 1 friend in the World. That's right. Everybody disses me for making bad videos. I think they are perfect though. Who is right? My dissers or me? Which side are you on, dear x

    • @nafiaus
      @nafiaus 3 роки тому

      that's me

    • @ssproduced3863
      @ssproduced3863 3 роки тому +4

      @@AxxLAfriku nigga I thought you had 2 girlfriends

    • @deepaksilaych6510
      @deepaksilaych6510 3 роки тому +2

      Just use UA-cam vanced

    • @snoozley853
      @snoozley853 3 роки тому

      @@AxxLAfriku gfy

  • @60secondfinance81
    @60secondfinance81 3 роки тому +369

    Next on Wendover Productions:
    The Logistics of Reading a Doctor’s Notes

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 роки тому +5

      It simply can't be done.

    • @joermnyc
      @joermnyc 3 роки тому +1

      George Carlin joke: The pharmacist is always stoned, ever notice that… check his eyes, he’s experimenting with something back there…. How come he can never fill a prescription right away? ‘Better come back in an hour… I can’t even read the bastard.’”

  • @greenor3
    @greenor3 3 роки тому +278

    As the teachers say, "I'll throw it out."

    • @DyslexicMitochondria
      @DyslexicMitochondria 3 роки тому +1

      your teachers smart

    • @epicstuff7522
      @epicstuff7522 3 роки тому

      @@DyslexicMitochondria Hey bro I watch ur videos. Love your channeI

    • @goodgenes0
      @goodgenes0 3 роки тому

      @@DyslexicMitochondria Hey bro I watch ur videos. Love your channeI

    • @United-Nations
      @United-Nations 3 роки тому

      @@DyslexicMitochondria Hey bro I watch ur videos. Love your channeI

    • @danese1636
      @danese1636 3 роки тому +2

      Haha!
      *Laughs in federal law*

  • @srsaquet
    @srsaquet 3 роки тому +272

    I once put eight postcards in a postbox in Harlem and none did ever reache their destination. It sucked because the transatlantic stamps were pretty expensive. It wasn't because of my bad handwritting because the two i posted in Wall Street did arrive.
    I think that was a postbox anyway...

    • @cheat200
      @cheat200 3 роки тому +21

      I don't know if this is a reference to an older video or real but a thumbs up nonetheless.

    • @wellwell5483
      @wellwell5483 3 роки тому +16

      @@cheat200 I think this is in reference to Unabomber

    • @compute0010
      @compute0010 3 роки тому +17

      If you don't have the country name listed then in most cases it can't be sent. There are exceptions such Canada where the postal code is enough with the province. There is a team that will attempt to figure out the country but if they can't then it will be returned to sender. If you didn't have a return address on the postcards then it would have been marked as dead mail

    • @happyfacefries
      @happyfacefries 3 роки тому +3

      Unfortunately, with how the machines are, some pieces of mail her ripped and postcards are more vulnerable to it.

  • @404_Name_Not_Found
    @404_Name_Not_Found 3 роки тому +133

    I've never seen a GovDeals sponsor spot before.

  • @MagraveOfGA
    @MagraveOfGA 3 роки тому +24

    According to my mother, when she worked in a hospital they had to occasionally put doctors on "print only," ergo they banned them from writing anything by hand.

  • @DJDoena
    @DJDoena 3 роки тому +69

    "without a single mistletoe." I LOLed.

    • @nootics
      @nootics 3 роки тому +1

      Laugh Out Louded

    • @xXJ4FARGAMERXx
      @xXJ4FARGAMERXx 3 роки тому

      @@nootics why do people on the internet randomly say "Laugh Out Loud"? Are they giving us commands like a sith lord who wants to collect the energy into a capsule??

    • @nootics
      @nootics 3 роки тому

      @@xXJ4FARGAMERXx idk lol
      Wait, aren't you on the refold jp discord? I remember this name...

    • @xXJ4FARGAMERXx
      @xXJ4FARGAMERXx 3 роки тому

      @@nootics yes, i am.

  • @jdatlas4668
    @jdatlas4668 3 роки тому +97

    Ooh, I think I actually know this! I used to wonder as a kid and then one day I looked into it and was absolutely fascinated by the entire process of how mail is processed automatically.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 роки тому

      It's one of those things you never realize you wonder about.

    • @DaniAalders
      @DaniAalders 3 роки тому +2

      Ayy we have the same profile picture!

    • @megvmean
      @megvmean 3 роки тому +6

      @@DaniAalders Bisexual pride

    • @DaniAalders
      @DaniAalders 3 роки тому +1

      @@megvmean yesssss

  • @JonathonV
    @JonathonV 3 роки тому +115

    1:39 I’m a middle school teacher, and that poem isn’t half-bad.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 роки тому +10

      You have to read worse than that? Wow, I'm so very sorry.

    • @zinniaward8549
      @zinniaward8549 3 роки тому +4

      It's full-bad

    • @rogerstone3068
      @rogerstone3068 3 роки тому +1

      You're right. I've seen worse.

    • @cyber_dragon_123
      @cyber_dragon_123 3 роки тому

      It reads like something a 15-year-old would write. Any younger and it wouldn’t even be a poem.

  • @alphaamoeba
    @alphaamoeba 3 роки тому +140

    “Formerly known as the *Mail Recovery Center”*
    OSC Fans: **the infamous water spit of sudden surprise**

    • @damienfinnegan8272
      @damienfinnegan8272 3 роки тому +1

      what's OSC?

    • @notmuchgd9842
      @notmuchgd9842 3 роки тому

      @@damienfinnegan8272 object show community i think

    • @user2C47
      @user2C47 2 роки тому

      @@damienfinnegan8272 In object shows, recovery centers are machines used to respawn characters.

    • @skysight1553
      @skysight1553 2 роки тому

      I read your comment just as He was saying it in the video.

  • @ashtonisvibin561
    @ashtonisvibin561 3 роки тому +13

    the most valuable knowledge from this video is that govdeals exists, I'm here rn and there is a frickin 1966 ford dumptruck for 3000 dollars

    • @itsdweezy
      @itsdweezy 3 роки тому +4

      I hate when my dump truck gets lost in the mail

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 роки тому +4

      I hate when I can't find a vintage dump truck and have to use a modern new-built one instead.

    • @joshyaks
      @joshyaks 3 роки тому +1

      I hate dump trucks.

    • @pencilRC1
      @pencilRC1 3 роки тому +1

      @@itsdweezy I know right! Every damn time.

    • @user2C47
      @user2C47 2 роки тому +1

      @@joshyaks Why do you hate dump trucks?

  • @LilCurtisKeepASwitch-m9r
    @LilCurtisKeepASwitch-m9r 3 роки тому +76

    It's canon: HAI's is the grandson of WendoverProductions
    0:08

    • @andrewmaperson
      @andrewmaperson 3 роки тому +5

      the info we've all been waiting for

    • @Ozerluce
      @Ozerluce 3 роки тому +5

      Canon*
      No Sams were fired out of a tube in the making of this video

    • @dymytriy7454
      @dymytriy7454 3 роки тому

      We just know they’re related, maybe only cousins

    • @the.abhiram.r
      @the.abhiram.r 3 роки тому +1

      they gotta update the HAI wiki

  • @albertmiller2electricbooga897
    @albertmiller2electricbooga897 3 роки тому +24

    "It gets sent to the Dead Mail Center, which sounds like a name for Jeffrey Dahmer's house"

    • @camerondailey2627
      @camerondailey2627 3 роки тому +2

      fucking brilliant

    • @epkoda
      @epkoda 3 роки тому +2

      I legit had to pause to process it lmaoo

  • @DJDoena
    @DJDoena 3 роки тому +18

    1:54 1,600 addresses an hour? That's ~27 addresses a minute or 2.25 seconds for an address. Do they type it down, speak it into a device? I can barely say my full address in 2.25 and I know it by heart.

    • @204trebor
      @204trebor 3 роки тому +7

      As a former coder for Canada Post, one coder will type in the postal code, (ie M3A 1A1). That postal code will represent an address range (ie. 100-200 Main Street), and another coder will type in street number or apartment number.

    • @dallasjhaws
      @dallasjhaws 3 роки тому +3

      Yep it’s all typed! However, there’s a shortcut for keying addresses, because you usually don’t need the full address to send a letter to where it needs to go

    • @IFeelCaged
      @IFeelCaged 3 роки тому +6

      i used to work here and it depends on a lot of things. theres separate programs for the different info each piece of mail needs like mail class, zip(+4), sender or receiver address, name/business, ect. we would type it out but there are shortcuts to code the addresses. ie: 382 e summer street san diego california = 382sums sandca

    • @azraelle6232
      @azraelle6232 3 роки тому +3

      @@IFeelCaged I think my favorite one was the 3+1 code for Staten Island, NY: STAINY.

  • @TurtleMarcus
    @TurtleMarcus 3 роки тому +9

    This reminds me of a particular rogue philatelist who would send letters to challenge the postal service. His name escapes me right now. For example, he would draw a map on the letter, or give a lengthy description of the location - they all arrived at their correct destinations eventually. The only time it failed, was when he recipient was "a random citizen in New York" - this was returned as it was not specific enough.

  • @carlablair9898
    @carlablair9898 2 роки тому +6

    My mom was a postal clerk for 24 years. She could read almost anything. One of her friends wrote a society column for the local newspaper, but the woman's handwriting was pretty awful, so mom would type it out . Big help.

  • @maxmccann5323
    @maxmccann5323 2 роки тому +3

    This guy just solved a problem I've thought of before, forgot, and very glad for no particular reason that I've finally gotten the answer to

  • @lynnwillis441
    @lynnwillis441 3 роки тому +2

    I worked at the Salt Lake REC for over 12 years. I was incredibly glad when I transferred.

    • @happyfacefries
      @happyfacefries 3 роки тому +1

      I got burned out in less than a year but ended up being there for two trying to stay for the pay. The holidays were so hard.

  • @Marylandbrony
    @Marylandbrony 3 роки тому +15

    Half as interesting jokes are as good as Season 9 of Scrubs, The Emoji movie and Sword art online.

  • @zboy9600
    @zboy9600 3 роки тому +35

    Wait a minute.. Did you see that? He said his grandfather’s last name was ‘Wendover’, which also happens to be the name of the channel ‘Wendover Productions’ which this channel constantly denies that they are the same person, but is this a coincidence? I think NOT!

    • @Duck.1
      @Duck.1 3 роки тому +2

      Grandfather, probs his cousin ofc

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 роки тому +1

      Evil twins.
      Because neither one is good.

    • @happyfacefries
      @happyfacefries 3 роки тому

      Wendover is also a city on the border of Utah and Nevada

    • @googiegress
      @googiegress 2 роки тому

      Wouldn't be surprised if Wendover started a negative-budget channel like this for all the cruft that wouldn't make the cut on the main one.

  • @Rehk
    @Rehk 3 роки тому +32

    I swear this man answers all the questions I didn’t know I cared about

  • @ganonk79
    @ganonk79 3 роки тому +5

    1:49 Wait, what does it mean to "process an address"? 1600 an hour?? That's one address every 2.25s. I'm not sure if I can read a machine written address and type it up somewhere without mistakes in that amount of time. And certainly not 1600 in a row.

  • @cheeseburgermonkey7104
    @cheeseburgermonkey7104 3 роки тому +20

    when half as interesting becomes so hellbent on making terrible jokes he forgets to put the intro in

  • @talideon
    @talideon 3 роки тому +2

    Whereas in Ireland, we've had people slap down a first name and a rough drawing of the roads around the deliveree's house, and had stuff be delivered on time. Starting in a different country.

    • @blahza12345
      @blahza12345 3 роки тому +1

      Yes! Can't beat An Post.
      Meanwhile I'm not getting my delivery with UPS because my 4-line address with Eircode and phone number isn't good enough. In the centre of Dublin.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 роки тому +1

      Canada Post acts like that sometimes. I could send a letter to my dead mother, at an address we lived at for just six months, some twenty years ago. The local post office would scratch out the old address, write in a new address, and my father would get the letter at the house he moved to last year. But that might just be small town living.

    • @losnfjslefn8857
      @losnfjslefn8857 3 роки тому

      @@johnladuke6475 I'd say that's small town living. In a small town, it's easier for postal employees to remember each individual customer. So, even after the Forward has expired, if they know that person by name, they'll be nice and rewrite the correct address.
      Chances are that's not gonna happen very often at bigger post offices (Too many customers to remember). It also depends on each individual carrier. Some carriers are willing to go that extra mile, while others, if they see that the Forward has expired, even if they *can* figure out the new address, they'll just Return to Sender anyway.

    • @googiegress
      @googiegress 2 роки тому

      "Send this to Tim, he lives down a road and over a culvert"

  • @arisaardi7576
    @arisaardi7576 3 роки тому +21

    1:50 1600/hour!
    It's basically 2 second each.. how?

    • @flirkami
      @flirkami 3 роки тому +1

      Exactly what I thought. If they have to write just two words per adress this should actually be impossible from the writing alone and that completely neglects unreadable stuff

    • @IFeelCaged
      @IFeelCaged 3 роки тому +5

      we would type it in code. ie: 382 e summer street san diego california = 382sums sandca so usually its max 9 keys per mail depending on what part of the mail piece you're dealing with

  • @commandereddy
    @commandereddy 3 роки тому +1

    I mailed a comic book (a "Bob's Burger" comic under $25) in 2019, to a guy in Texas and forgot to put his apartment number on it. I realized this later that day, call USPS to change it and told them the tracking number. They said they would have try to be delivered, before they could change the address. So I tracked it, and called them once it was out for delivery. They said they would flag it and redeliver it the next day. I guess the local post office didn't get the message because as I kept tracking it, and saw it was now headed to Atlanta. Once it got to Atlanta, it said it was at the "Dead Mail Center". I did call the Dead Mail Center and explained what happen, they said if they found it, they would updated it and remail it. But they never did.

  • @segevider3566
    @segevider3566 3 роки тому +17

    It's just me or the name of the grandpa should have been Half as Grandpa

  • @frankhooper7871
    @frankhooper7871 6 місяців тому +1

    Ex UK postie here; worked for a while processing incoming international mail. The USPS returned a letter addressed to the Los Angeles Rams (football team) as insufficiently addressed.

  • @ech0o0o0o0z
    @ech0o0o0o0z 3 роки тому +3

    2:24 assuming a thickness of 0.05 mm/paper then a stack of 1.9 billion papers is 95 km (59 miles). The stack reaches the thermosphere.

    • @googiegress
      @googiegress 2 роки тому

      That's enough paper that you need to take into consideration the air between them. Compressed paper with no space between each sheet is much more dense than, say, slightly rumpled papers of different types stacked in random order.

  • @nshadex72
    @nshadex72 3 роки тому +14

    You missed a perfect opportunity to reference the AMPM as the gas station store instead of pronouncing it like uhm pum.

  • @kindandrespectfulcommenter3292
    @kindandrespectfulcommenter3292 3 роки тому +27

    Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.

  • @jackasplat
    @jackasplat 3 роки тому +1

    I worked at the Remote Encoding Center for 8 months, and yes, the training process is as infuriating as it sounds. It's also worth mentioning there is not a single physical piece of mail inside the building, only about 300+ computers with programs that display images of the scanned mail that come in from various mail distribution centers across the US. Everyday you were assigned an area that dealt with either letters, magazines, packages, or other miscellaneous categories of mail. There was also an entire different section for verifying names of recipients and return addresses. Christmas time is less about letters to Santa (which we coded to a zip code in Alaska and arrived as early as September) and more so because of the likes of Amazon, black Friday, holiday shipping, etc.

    • @BJGvideos
      @BJGvideos 2 роки тому +1

      Santa is coded to a zip code in Alaska? I thought he was coded to the town of Santa Claus, Indiana

  • @HavokTheorem
    @HavokTheorem 3 роки тому +6

    Is anybody else shocked that somebody would fail to claim an ENTIRE Harley Davidson motorcycle and instead give it away to the government?
    No? Me neither.

    •  3 роки тому +2

      That website isn't just for lost mail. Confiscated goods and things the government just wants to get rid of are also sold there.

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer 3 роки тому

      If you realise that people even seem to forget there artificial leg on the bus. People just forget.
      I mean I assume that the artificial leg is needed to walk. So a bike easy.

    • @HavokTheorem
      @HavokTheorem 3 роки тому

      Oh guys, I was only poking fun at the dead brand

    • @googiegress
      @googiegress 2 роки тому

      Probably just wanted to avoid spending all the time and money keeping it running. Because after all that, best case scenario, you have to ride a Harley.

  • @TakeWalker
    @TakeWalker 3 роки тому +2

    "without making a single mistletoe" This floored me.

    • @xXJ4FARGAMERXx
      @xXJ4FARGAMERXx 3 роки тому +1

      I bet i'd laugh more if i understood what mistletoe meant, but i guess i'll just stay like a child who doesn't know what google is.

  • @omkarnagarhalli5217
    @omkarnagarhalli5217 3 роки тому +8

    Could they not just return it back to the sender's address? even if it's not legible surely there's a record of it

    • @wgcdrelliot8989
      @wgcdrelliot8989 3 роки тому

      Probably, not always the case.

    • @compute0010
      @compute0010 3 роки тому

      If there's even a return address. A lot of mail doesn't have a return address

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 роки тому +2

      Why would there be a record of the sending address? The mail carrier isn't putting serial numbers on individual letters to track where they came from when they pick them up from your mailbox. If your route even has pickup. If I drop an illegible envelope in the mailbox down the block, how does anyone know it came from my house?

    • @compute0010
      @compute0010 3 роки тому

      It gets marked as returned to sender and then sent to a queue where we look for a return address on the image

    • @losnfjslefn8857
      @losnfjslefn8857 3 роки тому

      If the return address can't be read, and if it's just a normal letter without tracking, then no.

  • @JouvaMoufette
    @JouvaMoufette 3 роки тому +1

    That's some crazy speed right there. 750/hr is one every 4.8 seconds on average, and 1600/hr is an average of one every 2 1/4 seconds!

  • @thomaswalsh4552
    @thomaswalsh4552 3 роки тому +4

    “Grandpa Wendover”
    So HAI and Wendover are siblings or cousins

  • @resourcefulhedgehog936
    @resourcefulhedgehog936 2 роки тому +2

    I just wrote my entire address in calligraphy and I'm really regretting it D:

  • @MadProductionsink
    @MadProductionsink 3 роки тому +7

    0:08 confirmed that Half as Interesting and Wendover productions is the same guy, but I guess the not the same guy jokes will persist?

  • @cjyoyodude
    @cjyoyodude 3 роки тому +2

    I worked at the post office for a bit and the person who handled these items always recommend putting an address on the items inside.

    • @googiegress
      @googiegress 2 роки тому

      Or, like, writing extremely clearly on the outside in the first place. How many packages does a typical person send out in a day anyway?

  • @genericaccount9222
    @genericaccount9222 3 роки тому +4

    *joke about doctor’s handwriting*

  • @BigBBigTrees
    @BigBBigTrees 3 роки тому +1

    Lol that’s the big USPS center, I was always wondering why it was so big lol.

  • @als_pals
    @als_pals 3 роки тому +10

    "dead mail center, which sounds like a name for Jeffrey Dahmer's house" holy shit I was not ready at all for that.

    • @kornsuwin
      @kornsuwin 2 роки тому

      it was uh
      Uh
      UHHHHHH

  • @Byronze
    @Byronze 3 роки тому +1

    where do these jokes even come from... I cant believe how refreshing your video style is. please continue

  • @alexandergilles8583
    @alexandergilles8583 3 роки тому +4

    That Dahmer joke caught me so off guard 💀💀

  • @KYoss68
    @KYoss68 3 роки тому +2

    You're not supposed to use handwriting when addressing envelopes. You're supposed to print.... hand print.

  • @NoodleProductions
    @NoodleProductions 3 роки тому +13

    Why is his grandpa named Grandpa Wendover? Is he related to Sam from Wendover?

  • @TheRealVoiceOfReason
    @TheRealVoiceOfReason 3 роки тому

    In 1994, I sent a letter to a friend with the address encrypted using a simple substitution cipher, where A=Z, B=Y, C=X, etc. I didn't encrypt the return address, and wrote a little note that said, "Use this only if you can't figure it out." It got through just fine.

  • @vmarzein
    @vmarzein 3 роки тому +4

    2:46 please help me. the best i can read is:
    Now look at The Good
    handwriting TT I'm my and an
    examine its &
    because I can try to Clide
    loss My Footage R2d
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    -The Anijebn
    i tried my best ok :I

    • @fgsaldanha
      @fgsaldanha 3 роки тому +3

      The signature is from "The Animator" (they put some easter eggs around the videos). Congrats on translating most of the hidden message, I couldn't read even half of it! Now hoping Sam will fully reveal it, eventually.

  • @susanritter2520
    @susanritter2520 3 роки тому +1

    “without a single mistletoe” - love it!

  • @REEEPROGRAM
    @REEEPROGRAM 3 роки тому +3

    (This is a funny comment)

  • @teodorhellgren5613
    @teodorhellgren5613 3 роки тому +2

    HAI jokes are as good as Elon Musk's SNL Monologue, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie and Community Season 4 put in a blender

  • @elhugo13
    @elhugo13 3 роки тому +5

    Yes finally, Gramps know that jokes are bad and detract from the videos.

  • @matthijskkr
    @matthijskkr 3 роки тому

    Those workers must be amazing at filling captchas

  • @Kentucky_Caveman
    @Kentucky_Caveman 3 роки тому +4

    1:05 "incase the government decides to take your guns away" now h.a.i is finally saying something I can agree with, even if it is sarcasm

    • @a154james
      @a154james 3 роки тому

      careful, they might take your minecraft too

  • @TommyWashow
    @TommyWashow 3 роки тому

    this guy will never run out of original ideas

  • @uss_04
    @uss_04 3 роки тому

    No wonder doctors have secretaries. For mailing letters... and now emailing them.

  • @AbsolXGuardian
    @AbsolXGuardian 3 роки тому +2

    I was able to eventually get an international package when I forgot the first digit of my postcode. Obviously that wasn't because of this system, it was a printed label. But some other contiguency plan when into play after the OCR couldn't match the label with anything in the database that eventually got it to the town post office where the workers went "oh yeah that's an address in our three postcode town, and the only address of its kind."

  • @TGX03
    @TGX03 3 роки тому +2

    Holy shit, 2s to decipher an address a machine couldn't. That's quick

    • @0Clewi0
      @0Clewi0 3 роки тому +1

      typing should take more, are they given multiple choice or something?

    • @feuerherz007
      @feuerherz007 3 роки тому

      @@0Clewi0 they type Numbers for each state etc. They know them by heart

  • @juliusreiner5733
    @juliusreiner5733 3 роки тому +2

    Watching this made me think of the movie “Dear God”, which is about a guy working in the dead letter office. Great movie

  • @MarioDSLife
    @MarioDSLife 10 місяців тому

    Love your videos. The humor is always a welcome thing in a not half interesting life.

  • @mynameisjeff.
    @mynameisjeff. 3 роки тому

    I used to work at the REC in Tampa, FL until they shut it down. They have an entirely different system for typing and a modified keyboard that takes about 2 weeks full time to learn and the test is quite hard. The job itself was very hard to stay awake for. You stare at a screen and an image pops up, and you type the part that they are asking for, and they constantly monitor how fast and accurate you type. But you could listen to your headphones, which was cool. And you get a 5 minutes break every hour.

    • @compute0010
      @compute0010 3 роки тому

      You mean a 5, 10, 5, lunch, 5, 10, 5?

    • @mynameisjeff.
      @mynameisjeff. 3 роки тому

      @@compute0010 Yeah, that's right. Those 10 minutes breaks were great.

  • @turtle4llama
    @turtle4llama 2 роки тому

    The dead mail center processed a package filled with rare beetles for my husband. It took over a year from when the box fell behind the parcel sorter to be dug out by an enterprising postal worker, shipped to Atlanta (because the label was destroyed), opened and identified. We had filed a claim a month after it didn't show up, so it was pretty easy for them to find the guy asking for weird beetles. I'm so grateful they classified a box full of bugs as sentimental, because they indeed are.

    • @user2C47
      @user2C47 2 роки тому

      Did the beetles survive?

    • @googiegress
      @googiegress 2 роки тому

      @@user2C47 They certainly had a hard day's night.

  • @juli6279
    @juli6279 3 роки тому

    no i have actually been wondering this for months. thank u

  • @RReapxRR
    @RReapxRR 2 роки тому

    This guy is a comedian to make videos that feel like, interesting 5 minute crafts videos

  • @arhansarkar8134
    @arhansarkar8134 3 роки тому

    This man is really answering questions

  • @wildan.danial
    @wildan.danial 2 роки тому

    the dead mail building sounds like a cool job dou

  • @AragornRespecter
    @AragornRespecter 3 роки тому +1

    I have dysgraphia this is what I’ve been waiting for

  • @juliagates4573
    @juliagates4573 8 місяців тому +1

    My mom used to work at that processing center

  • @ylette
    @ylette 3 роки тому

    Wanna hear a collection of bad jokes? You have to pay for it. That was a good one.

  • @aedyaedyaedy
    @aedyaedyaedy 3 роки тому +1

    No no, I don’t think you understand: I’ve thought about this a LOT. Like, every time I write something that another person might read, which is more often than you’d think.

  • @azraelle6232
    @azraelle6232 3 роки тому

    I have worked at the Remote Encoding Center, and you are correct, that test is no joke.

  • @sluggedbacon9255
    @sluggedbacon9255 3 роки тому

    Doctor sends mail. Machine be like:NO JUST NO SEND IT TO THE PHARMACISTS NOW

  • @thepanremastered
    @thepanremastered 2 роки тому

    "ad free access to normal videos"
    Brave Browser: You called?

  • @minecraftminertime
    @minecraftminertime 3 роки тому +1

    Seeing as all the top comments are about doctors, let me tell you that nationwide, doctors pick up an average of $250,000 of debt, or 180 THOUSAND pounds, which, held in the average person's arms, would result in bones being crushed. In order to replace their bones, doctors must pay for new bones, in which one of the ways is by sending a check in the mail, so their pancake arms produce flat handwriting to be read by the REC.

  • @sharathv4527
    @sharathv4527 3 роки тому

    The mail never stops coming

  • @christianhumer3084
    @christianhumer3084 3 роки тому

    1. Write a Mail with not readable handwriting including a picture of Rick Ashley that is clearly more worth than 25$
    2. Add an MP3 Player with "never gonna give you up" that activates by light-input

  • @grantamanh5517
    @grantamanh5517 3 роки тому

    I just sat in my room amazed at my stupidity because I just now realized half as interesting and Wendover productions is the same guy

  • @djturbo88
    @djturbo88 2 роки тому

    AI can write the script for this entire video without making a single mistletoe. 😂 That was smooth!

  • @tncorgi92
    @tncorgi92 3 роки тому

    I once worked for a direct mail firm, if you're ever in need of sleep just start reading through the USPS Domestic Mail Manual.

  • @Hickorypaws
    @Hickorypaws 4 місяці тому

    I just read for five hours straight so this is clearly the best kind of content to consume right after

  • @milseq
    @milseq 3 роки тому

    Jesus Christ that place where they have to read bad handwriting is the actual hell. That's exactly where you go after you die.

  • @stevenc.6502
    @stevenc.6502 Рік тому

    As a Canadian postal clerk; I spent some time in the VES room (don't know what that acronym stood for) where I was presented with images from mail still actually on the carousel of the sortation machine and had a limited time to read and input the correct postal code. If I couldn't do that fast enough or at all, it was dropped into the directory bin. Most of my co-workers hated working there because of the requirement to be both fast and accurate, but I liked working sitting down in a quiet climate-controlled room and I was fast and accurate. However they transferred the work to be done remotely at another location by postal clerks who were assigned there due to disabilities.

  • @JEBavido
    @JEBavido 3 роки тому +1

    I once received a letter from a cousin, long long overdue, that had first been sent to the Dead Letter Office. My cousin had forgotten to put a stamp on it. The To and From addresses were both very legible, but instead of refusing to mail it USPS decided to hold it hostage, and then failed to send a ransom note, and then gave up their poorly conceived kidnapping try and mailed it to me anyway. Weird.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 роки тому +1

      I once paid for rush shipping on a parcel through a commercial courier service. The business gave my parcel, with the courier rush label, to Canada Post. The kind souls at Canada Post delivered *a private business parcel" to me just because they touched a box that had an address on it.

    • @JEBavido
      @JEBavido 3 роки тому

      @@johnladuke6475 , that is so great! We had to tell our local post office that a young friend of my daughter had foolishly mailed her a jar of tiny fish hatchlings and, also, it had not arrived when expected. This was back before tracking was implemented. They checked up the line, located the package, kept us informed of it's progress, and drove it out to our house after hours the moment it arrived. All ten convict fish survived! (They were so tiny it was hard to even see them, just a pair of eye dots each. I shouldn't have been so worried; a pickle jar was an ocean for those little things. LOL!)

  • @humzahbaig28
    @humzahbaig28 3 роки тому +1

    The Friends cameo was a nice touch.

  • @AirWindStorm
    @AirWindStorm Рік тому

    There was a legend about Thailand Post. Someone tried to send a letter to Thailand, but somehow screwed up the printer. The recipient's name and address appeared as dots. Just a lot of dots, with a house number, and 5-digit postal code. That's it! The letter was successfully sent because local post office could guess who the recipient was based on the number of dots on the evelope.

  • @ilikebeans3821
    @ilikebeans3821 3 роки тому +1

    Those guys videos are so sarcastically awesome lol. Flippin witty and makes you actually think lol

  • @yamikirin
    @yamikirin 3 роки тому

    That vid of all the cut jokes is the most compelling reason to get nebula