Heathens & Believers

What kind of postal worker heathen processes a magazine by ham-fisting a numerical code onto it with a ball point pen?

Is the mailing label somehow not sufficient to direct The Believer to my home? Or perhaps it is assumed that periodical recipients won’t much care that their edition has been personalized for them by the post office?

I am no stranger to magazines limping in with the sad appearance of having been run over by a dull lawn mower but surely these crude pen marks aiding delivery are, at the very least, redundant?

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