He has no try/catch blocks of any sort.

And I certainly am not qualified to code in C++. But this isn't a company that does software development, for the sake of making money running or selling the software. This is a company that sends junk mail and does fulfillment, and writes software to enable that business activity.

So we have an incredibly low bar at this point for this type of "skill".

Thanks for pointing out the proper way of error checking that.