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USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise
fish waffle writes "Suspecting that their strongly branded 'Atheist' products may be treated differently by more religiously-oriented postal regions, Kickstarter success Atheist Shoes conducted an experiment. They sent 178 packages to 89 people in different parts of the U.S., each person receiving one package prominently branded as 'Atheist' merchandise, and one not. The results: packages with the atheist label were nearly 10 times more likely to be 'lost,' and took on average 3 days longer to show up when they did. Control experiments were also done in Europe and Germany — it's definitely a USPS problem."
Maybe they are simply falling prey to Acts of God.
"Control experiments were done in Europe and Germany". In theory that removes the God factor, except maybe USPS is so crappy that only the will of God can get the parcels there on time, and then only the ones he cares about.
Either way I'd be suspicious about the testing methodology. Most athiests are worse than christians about preaching their beliefs at any cost.
Who says they're christians? Maybe they're atheists stealing the products (or just trying to with the "delayed" packages). Apple sends its fancy boxes in plain brown outer wrapping too.