[SOC] US State Codes

[Bob N0UF]

> Bob (who must work for the United States Postal Service), N0UF wrote:

Sorry Todd,

This knowledge comes more for the category of "Know Thy Enemy."
I've had an ongoing battle with the local post office about several issues.

1. A local radio club sends it's hamfest mailer out of a post office
about 5 miles from my home.  We usually get request for tables and
advanced tickets from other states before I ever get my copy.

2.  The same clubs News Letter and a qsl from Spain arrived on the same day.
They had also been mailed the same day, 8 days earlier. The post office
worker's
comment when asked to explain was:  "That's pretty good service from Spain."

3. I sent a QSL to VR6MW:
Meralda Warren
Box 37
Pitcairn Island via New Zealand

It was returned two weeks later with the notation:
Incomplete address, need city, state and zip code.
This has happened with other countries as well.

4. Not to mention the fact that my grandfather move faster than most of the
counter workers at my local branch and he's been dead since 1963.

Now on the positive side,  My father in law was a rural mail carrier and
then
the Postmaster of the small town where he lived,  he and his carriers
did a great job.  Likewise my local carrier, Paul is a super guy, a hard
 worker and does an outstanding job also.  95% of the postal workers
are great people the other 5% seem to be the ones I get stuck with.

73
Bob N0UF
http://bobs-web.com
Retired AT&T & US Army Reserve, currently with IBM

----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Butler" <n0ncl@earthlink.net>
To: <soc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: [SOC] US State Codes


> Bob (who must work for the United States Postal Service), N0UF wrote:
>
> > Good Morning,
> >
> > Please check out
http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub201/yourmail.htm#abbr
> > for a complete list of the US two letter codes including the ones for,
Puerto
> > Rico, Guam and the other US Island possessions and military addresses
61
> > total.
>
> Anyone else ever notice as the cost for mailing anything continue to rise,
the
> quantity and quality of service continues to fall?   My dentist recent
sent a
> post card with my address clearly imprinted (less my apartment number) and
it
> was not delivered due to "insufficient address" --- but over last weekend
an
> unsolicited (a la junk mail) catalog was sent to me with the street number
> transposed (it had 4707 which is a Des Moines, Iowa address instead of
7407
> which is a different post office in the city of Urbandale, with different
> carriers, the dividing line according to the post office is the 6500
block) and
> yet it reached me without any problem.....
>
> Of course these are the same people (whom I have asked no less than twice
a
> year since June of 1998) not to force an 2� by 8�" by 11" (600 pages)
seasonal
> retail catalog into a 3�" by 4� by 11" mailbox.  The catalogs continue to
get
> mailed, and continue to get mangled prior to my possession of them.....and
they
> call this the finest in the world.....I shudder at the thought of other
> countries.  On the other side, I do recall when my older sister got with a
> group of local women in a small community in north central Indiana (in
1973
> through 1975) and baked cookies to mail to service people (guys like me
> participants in the Cold War) from the town on Friday.  The packages were
> assembled in the afternoon, and delivered to the post office just prior
> to 5 PM Eastern Time. From there the packages were loaded on a truck (with
many
>
> other parcels) and driven about 75 miles to the Indianapolis airport.
The
> packages were loaded on a plane and flown to New York City.  In New York
the
> package would be taken to Fleet Post Office, and routed on a plane bound
for
> Germany.  Once there the package was sorted and placed on another plane to
be
> delivered to the aircraft carrier which I served aboard (USS Independence)
in
> the Mediterranean Ocean off the coast of Italy (or France, or Greece, or
> Israel, or Egypt, or Libya, or
> Malta (well you get the idea) and then unloaded with other mail, sorted by
> ship's mail clerks, and picked up by the assigned departmental "flunky" to
be
> passed out early (way before lunch) on Monday.....actual time in total in
> transit about 58 - 60 hours, halfway round the world, for about $1.75
> postage.....Now days, the minimum cost for that kind of service (Priority
Mail
> to FPO, NY 095XX) is $ 4.95 with no guarantees on prompt delivery.
>
> Remember:  Mail early in the day, before they raise the rates AGAIN!
>
> Todd       N�NCL     SOC # 533
>
>
>
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