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A former co-worker once told me his father had been a "maintenance technician" for the Universally Stupid Postal Service before he retired, and that on more than one occasion he had arrived at a facility to fix a "problem" only to find one of the sorting machines shredding rather than sorting almost every piece of mail being forced through it. He added that when his father asked the obvious question "Why didn't you shut that line down?" the response was almost always something to the effect of, "Oh, we can't do that; we have too much mail to sort."The USPS. I bought a couple of old topographical maps on Ebay. They were shipped in a tube suitable for the purpose and should have arrived in good condition. Unfortunately, either they were run over by a mail truck or were used in a light saber competition in transit. Now my formally near pristine 100 year old maps have damage at the spot where the tube was crushed.