Postal Worker Shoves Irate Customer’s Package Up Own Sleeve, Insists It’s en Route to 'Sorting Void'
CHICAGO, IL — In a scene that has mail carriers everywhere nodding in grim solidarity, a viral video shows a U.S. Postal Service employee nonchalantly inserting a squirming, living package—a nesting hamster—directly into the sleeve of his uniform jacket. When confronted by the customer, he reportedly sighed and said, “Ma’am, once it enters the sleeve, it enters the system.” The video, titled “Paws and Effect,” has sparked a movement where disgruntled workers are documenting their own “sleeve-shipments” of items like bubble mailers and even a single flip-flop. Internet historians are calling this the “hottest callback to the 1997 *Seinfeld* mailroom episode,” reminding us that the line between satire and reality is, apparently, a thin envelope.