U.S. Postal Service Secretly Tracked Almost 50,000 Packages Last Year
Andy Cush · 10/28/14 09:30AMCongressmen Just Can't Stop Getting Porn in the Mail
Adam Weinstein · 04/17/14 09:15AMMan Finally Receives Postcard Sent in 1940
Jordan Sargent · 04/16/14 05:05PMSmall Cat Terrorizes Mailman
Gabrielle Bluestone · 01/29/14 06:55PMBurglar Walks Out of Prison, Found Buried In Backyard 28 Years Later
Ken Layne · 01/24/14 03:20PMDennis "Slick" Lilly put on a prison guard's uniform and walked out of jail in December 1986, and that's the last the cops ever saw him alive. Despite being on the FBI's list of Most Wanted Criminals, Lilly was so slick that he disappeared into the life of a law-abiding small businessman in a woodsy town near Seattle.
Sarah Hedgecock · 12/11/13 01:37PM
Hamilton Nolan · 11/11/13 10:27AM
The U.S. Government Is Spying on Your Goddamn Snail Mail, Too
Cord Jefferson · 07/03/13 03:43PMPerhaps you are under the impression that if you do not use email or the telephone, both of which we now know subject you to government surveillance, you can fly under the spies' radar. Perhaps you think a postcard sent to your sick grandmother in Ohio is free from bureaucratic scrutiny. You are wrong.
Introducing "Tom Tips Back"
John Cook · 05/31/13 03:42PMHow Doomed Is the U.S. Postal Service?
Hamilton Nolan · 05/28/13 08:02AMPolice Arrest Taekwondo instructor in Connection with Ricin Letters
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 04/27/13 11:33AMNo, Matt Drudge, Drones Are Not Delivering Newspapers in France
Max Read · 04/01/13 02:58PMFor about 20 minutes this morning, the top headline on the Drudge Report was "DRONES TO DELIVER NEWSPAPERS." It was a nice bit for Drudge, one that satisfied both his obsession with drones and his obsession with media, and had a good future-shock value for his aging, perpetually terrified audience. It was also, obviously, an April Fool's Day joke.
Hundreds of Unopened, Glittery Letters Addressed to Taylor Swift Discovered in Nashville Dumpster
Caity Weaver · 03/12/13 12:15PMNeither Snow, Nor Rain, Except on Saturdays: USPS to Cease Weekend Mail Delivery
Neetzan Zimmerman · 02/06/13 09:17AMDid You Just Mail a Human Foot to Canadian Governmental Headquarters? If So, Thank You and Why? (UPDATE)
Caity Weaver · 05/29/12 06:25PMYou know how sometimes you get a package in the mail but you don't remember ordering anything and then you open up the box and it's, like, adorable vintage salt and pepper shakers from Etsy and then you post on Facebook "I guess that bottle of pinot grigio decided to take me on a shopping spree last week LOL" and all your friends are like "Haha <3"?