[Dx-qsl] Snail Mail Woes

[BILL-W2AY]

 To add to your stories,  I am a Ltr. mgr in the W2  incoming bureau &
several members
also work for the U.S.P.S. in ssome large sorting bldg in N.J. (  a bldg
such as you describe- with conveyor belts, etc.)  some of the horror stories
they tell at the meetings
 such as when these pkgs of incoming cards"explode" or chewed up on the
conveyor systems, and qsl cards all over the place.  They have informed
their supervisors  as to what these cards are and know exactly what to do
with them, they are told only to sweep them up and trash them. if you do
anything else, you're fired.   They have to trash them because they  are not
individually addressed.                    ....Bill / w2ay

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Anderson" <ww5l@gte.net>
To: "Ron Notarius WN3VAW" <wn3vaw@fyi.net>
Cc: "DX QSL" <dx-qsl@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Snail Mail Woes


> 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
> >
>
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