Ya gotta be Frooklny jokin’!
IT’S A LONG WAY from Brooklyn to Frooklny.
But that didn’t stop a Brooklyn post office from distributing 1,000 notices to customers before noticing the mighty misspelling of the borough’s name.
Employees at the troubled Kensington branch had to junk the remaining 9,000 spelling-challenged slips, a postal official said.
“We really wanted to get this out of circulation as soon as we found the error,” said Darleen Reid, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Postal Service. “We recycle all paper,” she added. The tremendous typo, first reported in the Brooklyn Paper, appears as part of the post office’s Mcdonald Ave. address on slips alerting customers they have a package to pick up.
“I just want to know who does these things,” said Simon Kisheyev, 22, a student picking up an online purchase with a misprinted notice.
“I thought it was really weird. Who’s actually typing this up? You misspelled two letters. You can’t even say, ‘My fingers slipped.’ There’s no excuse for this.”
An employee at the Kensington branch filled out an electronic form ordering 10,000 slips printed and sent it to the Government Services Administration in Topeka, Kan., Reid said.
She laid the blame on the printing company the government hired, but said there was no immediate way to know which company was used.
“The local post office checked the form to find out if it was filled out correctly and indeed it was,” Reid said. “The error had to be made at the time of printing.”