Funny comment from New York Nerd on the New York magazine story about postal workers who route Netflix discs through their own DVD player before delivering them.

I haven’t experienced the missing disc problem on the receiving end, although I’ve had a few discs go missing for a couple of days on the way back. That actually makes sense in a way, since a disc coming back from a subscriber has to go through a facer-canceller, which it doesn’t on the way out. One more high-speed collection of belts and rollers means one more chance for that flimsy envelope to get shredded. So the disc ends up dressed only in it’s sleeve, and takes a while longer to get back to Netflix and logged in.

As far as discs arriving open but on time, the real explanation is probably benign- most of the discs on the outbound trip still have to go through at least one sorting machine. It really doesn’t take much to tear the Netflix mailers, but as long as the to: address part is still attached, the piece gets delivered as is.

That’s my theory anyway. Then again, I did notice that my rural carrier’s Subaru does have one of those little DVD screens in it…

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