January 08, 2009

Ouch.

"Army sends 'John Doe' letter to 7K relatives of Iraq, Afghanistan war dead"

I know that this is simply a mail-merge gone wrong, but it also fits nicely into my stereotyped vision of internal military functioning. Seriously, though, how did the 'culprit' mail 7,000 John Doe letters without at least noticing that two of the names are the same?

2 comments:

  1. Wow. Learn some Excel, people.

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  2. Mail merge is really hard for me.

    But that's why I don't have that job.

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