[Dx-qsl] Snail Mail Woes

[Tom Anderson]

Ron:

The father of one of the scouts in my Boy Scout troop is a supervisor at
the North Texas Mail Processing Center north of D/FW International
Airport and has told me horror tales about what goes on there.

His favorite tale is when those boxes/containers of sorted mail
"explode" as they're going around the center on a conveyor belt.  He
said it was sometimes like an inside snowstorm when some of those
tightly packed rectangular cardboard boxes (I'm sure the USPS has
another name for them, "flats" I think) collide on the conveyor belts or
rollers and mail goes everywhere and they have to stop everything,
pickup all the mail they can find, ungum the conveyor belts and then put
the mail back for sorting again.

I've often wondered how a bunch of my envelope mail seems to have tire
tracks all over one side or the other, and its not the marks of the
USPS' canceling machines, the treads are too easy to see.

Tom, WW5L 

Ron Notarius WN3VAW wrote:
> 
> I talked to the local postmaster today, and after getting a lecture on "how
> they do things with 100,000 pieces of mail at the Pittsburgh General Mail
> Facility," I've been reassured that I will get all of my mail.  Eventually.
> Just might take a week to 10 days to process...
> 
> Thanks to all who were concerned.  I'm just glad that my various incoming
> QSL cards won't get returned to sender!
> 
> 73, ron wn3vaw
> 
> "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood... won't you be my neighbor?"
> Fred Rodgers, "Mister Rogers Neighborhood," SK, 27 February 2003
>