USPS Calendar Fail

On the 31st of November, the world ends.

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~~I know what I’ll be doing on November 31st.~~ Spoiler Alert.
BillGlover

I just don’t understand all of this superstition about Friday the 31st… ;)
theophrastvs

were i potentate every month would have 30 days; then there would be a 5 or 6 days of airing of grievances, feats of strength, and dance’n.
- Ashley Yakeley
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar
- Jonathan Badger
  
  As mentioned, that’s the French Republican Calendar, but an even better suggestion is the Positivist calendar, with months of 28 days. Yes, 28 doesn’t sound like a nice round number, but it means that only one day a year (or two in leap years) are outside the month structure.
  - http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Randal L. Schwartz
    
    But we’d have 13 months, and that’d be all kinds of crazy for most people.
http://www.facebook.com/fritterfae Eric Riley

The thing I find the most surprising is that the calendar for December is actually accurate to the day. Just the November one which is not.
- Joshua Ochs
  
  And the small November inset calendar is correct as well. It’s just the large trailing numbers leading into December that are off.
  - bumblebeeeeeee
    
    hardily a calendar fail as headline suggests, december, which is the page this is for, is perfectly fine.
    - awjt
      
      Perfectly fine, mine arsh. This is the most thoroughly busy, confusing, factually inaccurate crap calendar I’ve ever seen.
http://mooseyard.com/Jens Jens Alfke

Hey, my birthday is November 31st. Do you know how rarely I get to celebrate it? So stop complaining about this.
- http://redesigned.com redesigned
  
  Lucky…I was born on Feb. 31st.
  - http://mooseyard.com/Jens Jens Alfke
    
    Even worse, there was a whole generation of people born in post-Revolutionary France whose *entire birth months* disappeared, so they never got to celebrate more than 12 birthdays in their lives!
    
    [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar]
    - http://redesigned.com redesigned
      
      This makes me wonder why we have months at all…wouldn’t it be simpler to be born on the 273rd of 19XX?
      - Boundegar
        
        No. Go back to Zeta Reticuli.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Forposting/100002531076048 Justin Forposting

This is not new. USPS, UPS, FedEx… all of them regularly invent days: Nov. 31, Oftember 18, Fringday. This helps them get the packages delivered on time and is considered to be one of the most important innovations in the parcel delivery service since the invention of the electronic signature pad that documents the delivery in no verifiable way.
Antinous / Moderator

This is Old Style; they changed the calendar in the 19A0s.
- http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza
  
  How did I forget to use that rubric in this post? Gah