[anonymousiam]

Couldn't read the Twitter post with NoScript, and didn't want to turn it off, but I verified the claim. Forgive me for working in cubic inches, but those are the unit measures specified on the USPS web page: https://store.usps.com/store/product/shipping-supplies/prior...

So the volume of the box is 82.6669921875 cubic inches. Assuming we're shipping a block of Tungsten at 0.7 lb/in^3, then our shipment would weigh 57.86689453125 lbs, which is less than 83% of the maximum allowed weight of 70lbs.

I wonder how closely my results agree with the Twitter post...

[gruez]

>Couldn't read the Twitter post with NoScript

FYI next time you can use something like nitter (eg. https://nitter.net/PaulMSherman/status/1516936733769801734) which works with scripts disabled.

[krallja]

« It is physically impossible to exceed the 70-pound domestic weight limit for a small flat rate box.

The interior dimensions (8 5/8" x 5 3/8" x 1 5/8") are ~75.333 in^3.

If you filled the box with pure osmium, the densest substance known to man, it would weigh ~61.48 lbs.»

[meinersbur]

Followup Tweets:

Should have said densest substance on Earth. Fill it with neutron star and you’ll be approx. 30 trillion kg overweight.

Had to post this correction before @neiltyson popped in with an "Actually..."

I don't have anything to plug, so just try to be a little bit better than normal if you happen to think of it, but don't make a big deal out of it--no one's asking you to be a saint.

[dylan604]

>Had to post this correction before @neiltyson popped in with an "Actually..."

Or you could have not and actually let him do it, then you could say it happened.

[edgyquant]

I was about to comment that myself here