[Dx-qsl] VE3HO QSLing policy

[Tom Anderson]

Brian:

Some time back our local USPS office held an open house and let the
public behind the counter on a Sunday afternoon.  It was a couple days
before the "Publishers Clearing House" big mailer was to be delivered so
space was tight. as there were hampers of presorted mail all from PCH
all over the post office.  

Anyway I asked one of the postal people how they determined/handled
postage due, insufficient postage etc.  They said it was usually your
local postal delivery person who determined when postage was due, not a
robot or someone somewhere in the automated system.  

Also another postal story I enjoy telling is years ago when I went
inside a USPS facility in the Dallas/Fort Worth area to mail a letter
because I didn't have any change to get a stamp in the lobby machines. 
The postal clerk I ran into was kind of smart alecky and said my
envelope felt like it was over an ounce.  The first scale he measured it
on showed exactly 1 oz, as did the second one.  He still wasn't
convinced so he went to a third and it said 1.1 oz so he charged me for
2 ounces.  I almost told him what he could do with that letter, but I
needed it mailed.

When I spent a month in the UK in the summer of 1995 I often used the
Royal Mail Post Office just down from the college where I was taking a
graduate course.  When I mailed a package back to the states the clerk
would weigh it and then give me the package back with umpteen stamps
that I had to lick and put them on the box myself and then hand it back
to him.  No printed postage meter stuff, just lots of stamps you have to
lick yourself.  Also at the Royal Post Office you could renew your
car/truck license plates, pay your "TV" tax 150 pounds a year for a
color TV and 50 or 75 pounds for a black and white and a whole bunch of
other things.    


Tom, WW5L



marinxs@webtv.net wrote:
> 
> I am trying to picture in my mind a number of postal employees holding
> up a letter in the light and looking at it from all angles for the tell
> tale verbotten sign of a drop of Elmer's glue on the corner of a stamp
> to account for the failure of their own highly automated (expensive)
> system to cancel stamps
> 73
> Brian
> KI6HT
>