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Going postal discworld5/26/2023 ![]() For a while, Postmaster Cowerby supported this because he believed it enabled the Post Office to deliver mail before it was posted which seemed the mark of efficiency. There were letters from the future, mail from alternate universes, and notes that people swore they had written and posted but had never, really. ![]() ![]() This led the Engine to tap through many layers of the space-time continuum, and the Engine spewed out mail that the postal workers hadn't even put into it. The wrong-ness of the Engine went beyond serving a different purpose than originally intended and arose because BS Johnson disapproved of the mathematical concept of pi being an irrational number and had therefore based the engine around a non-Euclidean wheel, on which the radius divided into the circumference exactly three times, thereby creating an area of dimensional instability. He was a man devoted to efficiency, so he acquired a Mail-Sorting Engine it had been designed by Bergholt Stuttley Johnson, aka Bloody Stupid Johnson, who originally intended it to be an organ (musical instrument). One day, disaster struck, or rather, was acquired by Postmaster General Cowerby. ![]() There were branch offices throughout different areas of the city. The place bustled with customers and employees. Many decades ago, the Post Office was a proud institution where the Postmaster General, Chief Postal Inspector, and everybody working there wanted to provide good service to the citizens. ![]()
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