For many years, if you entered the United States Postal Service's two URLs into your browser -- sans www. -- you got bupkis:
http://usps.com
http://usps.gov
The United States Power Squadrons at http://usps.org was always more flexible.
Finally, the USPS has decided to conform to more standard notation and have configured their servers so that any of the four variations will deliver you. The two above and the following two all work. And it only took a decade or so.
http://www.usps.com
http://www.usps.gov
p.s. The Google spell checker supplied the following votes for the spelling of bupkis:
Bupkis 76,200
Bupkiss 13,600
Bupkes 11,600
Whatever did we do in the bad old days to answer these vital questions?
Monday, November 28, 2005
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