Post by @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social

2026-11-05 00:22 UTC

Do you know why they call mailed letters snail mail? It's because snails were briefly employed at the United States Postal Service in 1953. This program quickly ended because snails were not only painfully slow, but were also entirely incapable of comprehending their job.

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@UrsaAshBear@mas.to 2026-11-05 00:25

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social "It's time for your 90 day review, Gary, and I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. You're not doing great"*

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@lcwheeler@ecoevo.social 2026-11-05 00:29

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social I'm sorry, but I have to object; this is misinformation. It's a myth created by the capitalist class to obscure the true history of the snail labor movement, not unlike the true history of the Luddites. The snail mail delivery workers were perfectly capable of understanding and doing the job; they simply refused to comply with demands to work under unacceptable conditions, such as dangerously long workdays and frequent exposure to salt.

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@donutage@mastodon.social 2026-11-05 01:51

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social The USPS still employs whales for overseas delivery.

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@hoco@sfba.social 2026-11-05 01:57

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social The snail program was a dismal failure until they put them in tiny cars. The cars were embossed with the letter S, which stood for Snail, of course. Observers were heard saying, "Look at that S car go!"

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@antdude@mastodon.social 2026-11-05 03:44

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ants would be better

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@riggbeck@mastodon.scot 2026-11-05 07:26

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social In customer surveys, many respondents complained about slime trails on their letters.

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