USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise

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USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @07:25PM from the heathens-don't-need-shoes dept.

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."

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Maybe... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-26 19:32 · Score: 5, Funny

Maybe they are simply falling prey to Acts of God.
1. Re:Maybe... by AK+Marc · 2013-03-26 21:16 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  "Control experiments were done in Europe and Germany". In theory that removes the God factor,
  God only lives in the US now.
  
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2. Re:Maybe... by Chrisq · 2013-03-26 22:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Maybe God hates USPS.
  Well everybody else does
3. Re:Maybe... by conspirator57 · 2013-03-27 00:31 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  why not? the people @ atheist shoes obviously believe in soles.
  
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4. Re:Maybe... by hawkinspeter · 2013-03-27 01:31 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Well, I've just had a look at the birth rates of various countries and it doesn't look good for christians! The two countries with the highest percentage of christians are Vatican City and the Pitcairn Islands (both with 100% christian) and as far as I can tell, they have zero births between them!
  
  Extrapolating those two data points, I predict that in about 80 years or so, there will be zero christians born.
  
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More testing required by moderators_are_w*nke · 2013-03-26 19:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Need to post some boxes that say 'contains god' and see if it gets there quicker than the control.

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Re:Much ado about nothing. by zAPPzAPP · 2013-03-26 19:59 · Score: 5, Funny

Something with good enough QA that you do not need to pray it keeps working.
Atheist Shoes? by largoyle · 2013-03-26 19:59 · Score: 5, Funny

Does that mean ... they have no sole?
Re:Much ado about nothing. by bfandreas · 2013-03-26 20:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Most products are agnostic, really.
but these are shoes. they can go to either heaven or hell 'cause they've got soles.

Kudos to Red Dwarf.

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Re:moral luxury by Adambomb · 2013-03-26 21:08 · Score: 5, Funny

Cast off the shoe, Follow the gourd!

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Re:Much ado about nothing. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-26 22:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Lister: Sometimes, I think it's cruel giving machines a personality. My mate Petersen once bought a pair of shoes with Artificial Intelligence. 'Smart Shoes' they were called. It was a neat idea. No matter how blind drunk you were, they could always get you home. But he got rattled one night in Oslo and woke up the next morning in Burma. You see, his shoes got bored going from his local to his flat. They wanted to see the world, you know. He had a hell of a job getting rid of them. No matter who he sold them to, they'd show up again the next day. He tried to shut them out, but they just kicked the door down.
Rimmer: Is this true?
Lister: Yeah. The last thing I heard, they sort of... robbed a car and drove it into a canal. They couldn't steer, you see.
Rimmer: Really?
Lister: Yeah. Petersen was really, really blown away about it. He went to see a priest. The priest told him... he said it was alright and all that, when shoes are happy that they'd get into heaven. You see, it turns out shoes have 'soles'.
Rimmer: Ah, what a sad story. Wait a minute.
[Thinks for a minute]
Rimmer: How did they open the car door?
Re:Maybe it was the labelling by GungaDan · 2013-03-26 23:18 · Score: 5, Funny

I think you missed the point of the story - USPS cross-checked the packages and finding no cross, discarded them.

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