I’m surprised this didn’t happen sooner  — the Smoking Gun has posted the plea agreement struck between the Commonwealth and a guy who worked at a Springfield Postal Service processing center, who had been making Netflix DVDs disappear from the mail. The former post office worker had reportedly lifted more than 3,000 DVDs, which added up to more than $36,000; the Smoking Gun says he can expect to do about a year in jail.

Last week, Netflix gave a group of coders $1 million for improving their recommendation algorithm by at least 10 percent.

Back in 2007, the Globe toured California-based Netflix’ ultra-secret, unmarked processing center in Northborough, where identically dressed employees sort copy after copy of Crash, the Departed and the Bucket List every day. But all the secrecy and algorithms and matching t-shirts in the world won’t help you once envelope leaves the building.