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Slices | February 15, 2013

Son’s Postcard Reaches Mom After 46 Years

When 13-year-old Bert Jacobson sent his mother a postcard from a stop in Pennsylvania on a road trip in 1967, he fully expected it to reach its destination, a P.O. Box near the family home’s in Oklahoma. And this week, it finally did. After 46 years, Jacobson's mother received the card. When asked where the postcard had been all these years—and why it took almost four decades to deliver a simple postcard—a postal worker who would only be referred to as “Mr. N” maniacally retorted, “It must of have gotten …. lost in the mail!” … Discuss

 

Slices | August 22, 2012

We All Should Have Bought More 'Simpsons' Stamps

The U.S. Post Office is saying they printed up 1 billion Simpsons stamps, but they've only managed to sell 318 million of them, leading to a shortfall of $1.2 million. Everyone shoulders a little bit of blame here. Sure, the U.S. Post Office should have considered the fact that 1 billion is just so many stamps, but, if we're being honest, we all could have stood to put a few more Simpsons stamps on all the letters we send every single day. Too late to do anything about it now except move on sadder but wiser, promising to do our part by purchasing boxes of any and all novelty stamps the U.S. Post Office decides to print in obscene quantities ... Discuss

 

Slices | August 14, 2012

The Long Awaited Return of 'You've Got Mail'

For those of you who are nostalgic for the good old days when emails came from family members and every new entry into your inbox triggered AOL's cheery little tagline, you can have it all back with this new Chrome extension. Of course, now it will be more useful for telling you that Land's End is having another End of Summer sale and a Rwandan prince has another fortune to give away, but you can't be picky with your electronic nostalgia ... Discuss