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US Postal Service discriminates against Atheists.
September 17, 2014 at 10:52 am
US Postal Service discriminates against Atheists, the Atheist Shoe company in Germany sent some shoes to the USA with plain tape and some with Atheist tape, more of the Atheist labled shoes went missing or arrived late.
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RE: US Postal Service discriminates against Atheists.
September 17, 2014 at 11:23 am
Damn. Even tape realizes that there is no god!
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RE: US Postal Service discriminates against Atheists.
September 17, 2014 at 11:59 am
I saw this a while ago. I'm torn about it. On one hand, it would honestly bug me if a company sealed up its packages with "Christian!" tape. On the other hand, why would this surprise anyone? It's not like the USPS is run by machines or something. It is run by Americans, with very little supervision once the packages leave the depots. Americans do not trust or like atheists. To expect anything different is naive. This company knew this, and did this little experiment as a publicity ploy. Send 178 packages to the United States with "Atheist" all over it. Surprise! 10% of the atheist packages went missing! Even more showed up late!!! Oh my!!!!
Don't put religiously/politically charging messages all over a package that is being handled by someone else. We don't live in a utopia. If there were Jesus stamps all over the packages, there would be some douchebag atheist who trashed a package or two as well.
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RE: US Postal Service discriminates against Atheists.
September 17, 2014 at 12:23 pm
Quote:10% of the atheist packages went missing! Even more showed up late!!!
Generally, I think the P/O calls that adequate service.
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RE: US Postal Service discriminates against Atheists.
September 17, 2014 at 12:28 pm
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(September 17, 2014 at 11:59 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: I saw this a while ago. I'm torn about it. On one hand, it would honestly bug me if a company sealed up its packages with "Christian!" tape. They do.....You can get anything you want put on your tape - and that can be part of your marketing and branding strategy.
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RE: US Postal Service discriminates against Atheists.
September 17, 2014 at 12:46 pm
(September 17, 2014 at 11:59 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Don't put religiously/politically charging messages all over a package that is being handled by someone else. We don't live in a utopia. If there were Jesus stamps all over the packages, there would be some douchebag atheist who trashed a package or two as well.
How about some comparative numbers.
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RE: US Postal Service discriminates against Atheists.
September 17, 2014 at 12:51 pm
No packages with the Scientology tape were received at all . . .
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RE: US Postal Service discriminates against Atheists.
September 17, 2014 at 12:55 pm
(September 17, 2014 at 12:46 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: How about some comparative numbers.
Not sure such a study has ever been done, I am just hypothesizing here. But I'm not saying that it would be equal, and I'm not saying that it's okay that these asshats are tampering with people's packages. All I'm saying is that there are assholes everywhere, and assholes will be assholes if you give them the chance.
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RE: US Postal Service discriminates against Atheists.
September 17, 2014 at 1:16 pm
(September 17, 2014 at 12:55 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: (September 17, 2014 at 12:46 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: How about some comparative numbers.
Not sure such a study has ever been done, I am just hypothesizing here. But I'm not saying that it would be equal, and I'm not saying that it's okay that these asshats are tampering with people's packages. All I'm saying is that there are assholes everywhere, and assholes will be assholes if you give them the chance.
And I'd say that we know for certain that believers do this kind of thing. Nothing more.
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RE: US Postal Service discriminates against Atheists.
September 17, 2014 at 3:18 pm
There are many atheists out there who consider themselves atheists just because they think it's the new trend. If you look around youtube, you will find several atheists who deliberately lie or make false claims. This forum itself have had members who had claimed that they vandalized churches and christian bookstores. Assholes are in both camps. Now the christians have greater numbers on their team, so obviously the asshole count would be greater on that side too. This doesn't mean the atheist team is clean either.
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