Postal blunder

[Ajmukon]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071214/ap_on_fe_st/odd_long_lost_card


opps..
but what i want to know is: where was it?? for 93 years?!!

[saphalline]

Spooky....

[PrntRhd]

Better than the mistake made for parking your car in Norway:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/12/14/international/i071206S12.DTL&feed=rss.news
At least 26 motorists were left baffled and broke when they used their bank debit cards to pay for street parking in municipal spots in the central Norwegian city of Trondheim last week.

Because of a computer glitch, the machine dispensing windshield parking permits multiplied the amount of time they bought by 10,000, and automatically deducted it from their bank accounts, the city-owned parking company said Friday.

Motorists who parked were charged between $37,000 and $148,000, parking official Steinar Myhr said on state radio network NRK.

:eek:

[deddard]

Then there's the medical scanner destined for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kings Lynn (England) that ended up in Australia....and the One destined for Australia ended up in Kings Lynn:D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7145664.stm

[Ajmukon]

well, those can attributed to computer error: 93 years ago, there were no computers.

[Rick]

I can't find a link to it
But many years ago a railcar that had been lost / sitting on a siding up in Canada
Contained a paper making machine

Once found the car was moved to the mill in Wisconsin
A Little late ( 40 plus years as I recall ) and outdated to say the least

Kind Like your New PackardBell 80286 showing up for Christmas in 2007 :)
Via ground shipment

[PrntRhd]

well, those can attributed to computer error: 93 years ago, there were no computers.
Yeah, that is why it is referred to as "snail mail".
:)

[Whyzman]

This one definitely needs to be called something more apropos..."snail mail" doesn't seem to do this one justice... :D