Disposable camera USPS
January 8, 2005 10:59 AM Subscribe
Late last December, a guy named Kyle Van Horn sent a disposable camera through the mail with a message on it asking postal workers to “help us with our project” and take a picture before sending the camera on to its destination. The camera arrived safe and sound, yet with 27 pictures exposed. The photos are here. (via Gadling)
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no postal tushies?
personally i'm both shocked and disappointed.
posted by wbm$tr at 11:10 AM on January 8, 2005
personally i'm both shocked and disappointed.
posted by wbm$tr at 11:10 AM on January 8, 2005
This is pretty cool. A spontaneous glimpse behind-the-scenes into the postal subculture.
I like it when the nameless and faceless forces in the machinery of our society suddenly hop out to manifest into real flesh and blood people.
Also, it makes you appreciate how cheap 37 cents really is.
posted by darkstar at 11:15 AM on January 8, 2005
I like it when the nameless and faceless forces in the machinery of our society suddenly hop out to manifest into real flesh and blood people.
Also, it makes you appreciate how cheap 37 cents really is.
posted by darkstar at 11:15 AM on January 8, 2005
The pictures leave me disgruntled.
There is absolutely no gruntle left in me whatsoever.
/takes shotgun down from the rack.
posted by 1016 at 11:40 AM on January 8, 2005
There is absolutely no gruntle left in me whatsoever.
/takes shotgun down from the rack.
posted by 1016 at 11:40 AM on January 8, 2005
This is pretty cool. A spontaneous glimpse behind-the-scenes into the postal subculture.
Yeah, I was kinda anticipating that same thing. Some juicy, fly-on-the-wall perspective that portrayed hopes and dreams and mysterious inner workings and...
Hmm.
Did the actual results strike anyone else as pretty...boring?
posted by dhoyt at 12:04 PM on January 8, 2005
Yeah, I was kinda anticipating that same thing. Some juicy, fly-on-the-wall perspective that portrayed hopes and dreams and mysterious inner workings and...
Hmm.
Did the actual results strike anyone else as pretty...boring?
posted by dhoyt at 12:04 PM on January 8, 2005
dhoyt - I'm with you - these experiments (and there are many appearing on the web these days) are provocative in concept and ultimately not that interesting in realization.
I bet the people that do these are totally psyched that they get something back and enjoy the pleasure of randomness and surprise that comes from their own experiment.
I'm not sure how well that pleasure transfers to others.
posted by stevil at 12:08 PM on January 8, 2005
I bet the people that do these are totally psyched that they get something back and enjoy the pleasure of randomness and surprise that comes from their own experiment.
I'm not sure how well that pleasure transfers to others.
posted by stevil at 12:08 PM on January 8, 2005
Did the actual results strike anyone else as pretty...boring?
Sure, but I think you could say that about any corporate entity when you look behind the scenes. Jobs are mundane. Especially sorting for the USPS. They come off as a pretty genial bunch and you can't ask for more than that.
Still, it's a cool concept. I thought it was pretty nifty.
posted by bawanaal at 12:55 PM on January 8, 2005
Sure, but I think you could say that about any corporate entity when you look behind the scenes. Jobs are mundane. Especially sorting for the USPS. They come off as a pretty genial bunch and you can't ask for more than that.
Still, it's a cool concept. I thought it was pretty nifty.
posted by bawanaal at 12:55 PM on January 8, 2005
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