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Originally Posted by M_Six
My sister in FL once shipped me a hard drive via USPS to rescue some data. She screwed up the first digit of my zip code, but otherwise had the address right, including a clearly written town and state. Nonetheless, it roamed around the country for two weeks and was twice in a post office an hour north of us, both times getting shipped back out to the mis-typed zip code. I attributed it to some machine reading the zip and routing it accordingly. Finally someone actually looked at the city and state and delivered it to our house.
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I'd call that luck. Zip code is what gets it close. Some poor schlub sits there reading zip codes and pounding on a keypad. My guess would be that someone recognized the package the third time through and thought, WTF.