The truth about the seedy underbelly of the United States Postal Service is finally surfacing. I’m sure we’ve all wondered at some point how our mail gets lost. It seems that your friendly USPS employee may be the culprit behind these horrible crimes. Or at least that’s who GameFly is trying to blame.
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GameFly is a video game rental company that, in my opinion, charges too much and takes too long to ship their games. It seems that out of the hundreds of thousands of games that they send out each month, a whopping 2% are either lost or damaged. They claim that if they were given the same special treatment as Blockbuster or Netflix this wouldn’t happen so often. Their DVD’s are gently hand picked out of the mail and not forced to endure the damaging effects of the mail machines.
Clearly this is a sign of discrimination. The USPS must hate gamers. Or maybe they, like me got frustrated after having to wait weeks to get a game from them and this is their way of fighting back. You go USPS!
In addition to the thousands of games being damaged by the mail machines, GameFly is also blaming the USPS for games that go missing. 19 employees have been arrested so far for stealing games from the mail room. It couldn’t be possible that THEIR customers are receiving games and claiming they didn’t. That would be immoral. Who would do such a thing? I don’t have a copy of Two Worlds for Xbox 360 in my possession that I claimed I never got. Nooooo. It’s easier to blame the poor hardworking USPS employees.
An official complaint has been filed against the USPS. Unfortunately, they claim they never received it. It too must have been lost in the mail.
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WOW…best article ever!
Three of my family members have worked for the USPS in the past. It’s pretty good money, so it makes you wonder why they would resort to stealing games at the risk of losing their job? I’m thinking some evidence must have been presented, not just fingers being pointed by Gamefly.
Oh, and Two Worlds? Really? I guess they didn’t care. “Jax lost Two Worlds? Well, it was broken anyway.” I really wanted to like that game and the concept was good, there were just too many annoying things that got in the way of my enjoyment.
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Good stuff. Love the punchline
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I think there are a few wackjobs and thieves working for the USPS, and they get most of the press, but the vast majority of my experiences with USPS have been very good or at least not worthy of complaint. Then again, it did take about three months to receive that Atari 7800 console I bought online, back in college.
Yeah but didn’t they ship things by horse back then??
Whaha! Awesome article
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hmm…seems you threw a dart and just randomly picked conclusions to jump to. Good job!
I’m sure 19 people were arrested merely because other people made claims that they never got their games. In fact I’m sure the police never investigated it and there’s certainly no possibility that there was anyevidence that these 19 people did in fact steal games.
Also I don’t agree that gamefly is overpriced, though you did state that it’s an opinion so kudos on that. I pay $37 per month and it always works out in my favor. Over the course of that month I get a minimum of 10 games from GameFly. It would cost more to rent them in a store, and I doubt that I need to do the math and point out how ridiculously expensive it would be to buy that same number of games.
19 people were arrested for STEALING VIDEO GAMES.
Random conclusions? sarcasm? What site is this?!?!?
Jax,
By mentioning that 19 people were arrested and following that up by questioning if people could be falsely reporting that they didn’t get a game, you link the two. If 19 people being arrested and accusations that people lie about not getting games, which we all know they do, aren’t linked then they shouldn’t be written out as a part of the same thought.
nobody gets arrested without evidence and if these claims are being made then USPS would find out as they security footage would show them stealing the mail, you don’t have to be paid badly to resort to stealing they might have done it becasue the oppertunity came up and it seemed like a good idea at the time.
It hardly matters as these people aren’t going to be in any trouble unless they actually did steal the video games.
Nick,
You’ve confused me and made my head hurt. I may not have worded it right but I meant that although USPS employees were arrested it probably isn’t always their fault.
GameFly makes it very easy for people to say they never recieved a game and will ship out another one quickly, asking that you send in the first copy if it is recieved later. Honor system is probably losing them a number of games. At $60 a pop it’s awfully tempting for the customers to do this and awfully easy to point the blame at the USPS employees instead of sucking up the loss themselves because of poor policies they have set up.
I’m new to this writing stuff so sometimes my thoughts don’t all get out for sake of keeping it short and funny.
Well, then we feel the same way basically. It just sounded like you were defending the USPS workers. What they did, or “allegedly” did is a federal crime also and very serious due to the implications of it. Customers being fuck-faced liars is a whole other problem and most likely where the majority of that 2% they lose happens.
That said 2% shrink is amazing compared to retail. Sorry that I’m being reasonable, I forgot this was the internet.
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