[Dx-qsl] 5R8NL PO Letter Theft

[Tom Anderson]

As an aside from stateside:

Years ago when I was the troop committee chairman for a Boy Scout troop in Hurst TX we had a number of fathers of scouts in the troop who were supervisors at the USPS' North Texas Sectional Mail Processing facility near DFW International Airport.

The horror tales about mail would make you wonder sometimes how the mail ever got through, but I know the USPS does a better job than any other postal agency in the world (my opinion).

Their favorite tale would be when several of what they called "flats" or the rectangular boxes that mail is stacked in would collide on the conveyor belts or elsewhere in the building.  Suddenly it would rain mail down everywhere (from overstuffed flats colliding) like snow and they would have to stop all the sorting and resort the mail, unclog the belt machinery, etc.  Of course some letters, etc. would get mangled in the process.  However, I've gotten letters before with a USPS purple stamp explaining the letter was "damaged" in the sorting process.  

Of course one month, the city water department where I live, called me about the "tire tracks" on my water bill payment.  All I could tell them there weren't any tire tracks on it when I mailed it.  

But when you process billions of pieces of mail a year, there's bound to be problems occasionally.

Of course in most foireign countries, the postal officials I'm told suddenly get "interested" when one address suddenly starts getting mail from all around the globe.  They seem top know who the hams are.

A former postal delivery person we had I kept happy because he collected stamps and I'd periodically give him the foreign stamps off of my QSL returns. 

Tom, WW5L 

--- On Sat, 4/9/11, Doug Renwick <ve5ra at sasktel.net> wrote:

> From: Doug Renwick <ve5ra at sasktel.net>
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] 5R8NL PO Letter Theft
> To: "'tom wylie'" <thomaswylie at sky.com>, dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Saturday, April 9, 2011, 8:44 AM
> 
> Is it possible that a 'machine' trashed the letters or is
> the evidence clear
> that a human did the job?
> 
> Doug
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >
> >A very sweeping statement Robert.    I am QSL
> Manager for 61 calls and
> >recently I have had 5 envelopes arrive in  Postal
> Authority
> >polythene bags having been trashed and opened with the
> contents all of
> >or some of missing.    4 came from USA and 1
> from Canada.
> >
> >Third World Countries?
> >
> >
> >Tom
> >
> >GM4FDM
> 
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