The Daily WTF: Similar to Snail Mail

‘Reggie’s company assembled a new release of their web application for generating address lists. The previous release had allowed customers to retrieve names and addresses, but many customers had lobbied for a cheaper (for them) alternative. They wanted just the addresses and a “slug”, like “To our neighbor at”, “To the petlover at”, or “Resident”, and they wanted to be billed accordingly.

…The requirement seemed straightforward enough, but….’