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i'd bet the gov is to broke to implement everything they claim they have, i got some tomatoe seeds through mail and they are good, well about half anyway, some germinated while others didnt, but thats natural and coulda been from many causes, radiation would have killed them all
Never enough time to do things right but theres allways time to do it over... If it aint broke dont fix it !!! We dont plan to fail, instead, we fail to plan. You can either wait in the sittin room, or sit in the waitin room. There is no blood in my viens, its, its, its, its chlorophyl. My thumb aint allways green !!!!!!!!!!!!!. My thumb, my thumb, its turning green.
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Posts: 1584 | Location: North Central Illinois , zone 5, Morrel mushroom country, The land of Corn and Soybeans | Registered: January 19, 2008
So far as I know, the only mail they are nuking is what comes into federal offices (FBI, CIA, politians, etc). And the "success" rate of that is only 30-50% (depending on who you talk to). I also hear (and I think this is amusing) all tax returns get nuked, TWICE. You suppose the IRS is paranoid?
As I always say, just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't actually out to get you.
Bill Griffin
Even Ham Radio operators love organic food. Especially here in SW lower MI.
Posts: 1607 | Location: Edwardsburg, MI Zone 5/6 | Registered: December 08, 2004
All I know, is that my little town didn't have enough money for 'the machine'. So all mail is shipped up to Anchorage to go through 'the machine' and then shipped back to our little town (if it is local mail).
But other than that...I have no idea what is going on...maybe it is just a mail sorter. *shrug*
Alaskan (gardening in zones 2 to 5)
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Posts: 1811 | Location: Alaska | Registered: January 22, 2003
It's possible that the "machine" in question is a cancelling machine but probably the machine that your little town (as well as almost every little town in the US) doesn't have is a letter sorting machine. (I do know it's not a mail microwave oven.) It's not likely that the the reason you don't have one is due to money but due to the huge volume of mail that is necessary to "feed" one of these machines. When I worked in a facility with these machines, it consumed nearly the entire volume of unsorted first-class mail for every Post Office in the Zip Code area starting with 109, the over-populated area I grew up in within sight of the Manhattan skyline.
This is a huge machine with a number of operators sitting at small keyboards where letters are fed to them at the rate of about one per second during which the operators key in parts of the zip code (down the mail-stream, usually the first three digits of the zip code, and later, closer to home, perhaps the final digits.) The operators never touch the letter and it zips off to a bin designated by the operators keystrokes. These sorting machines are operated throughout the day and night at large processing centers across the US.
It really is (or at least was, when I was a postal employee) an efficient and cost saving method of processing huge volumes of mail, despite a perceived lunacy many people have of shipping local mail a hundred miles or more only to feed it through "The Machine" and ship it right back.
(I was offered the "opportunity" to work at one of these machines and after a few half-hour sessions found the whole idea to be incredibly mind-numbing. The one extra level of pay given to the machine operators was not worth putting my mind on hold for such a large part of my life.)
Wayne
"If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
Posts: 1425 | Location: Zone 4a, transplanted to the hills of Western Maine. | Registered: October 07, 2005
I always wondered.....it used to be that we had a 'local mail' post box, and an 'other cities' mail box. Then they changed that, and I simply thought it must be a giant waste of time and gas money.
I can't imagine that we can get *THAT* much local only mail...but maybe we do *shrug*. I thought I had heard it was a giant X-ray machine.
But then, the town I live in is lovingly referred to as "the free range asylum". So, I can't really take stock in anything I hear.
Alaskan (gardening in zones 2 to 5)
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Posts: 1811 | Location: Alaska | Registered: January 22, 2003
I still don't know aboout efficient. It adds an extra 1-3 days for local mail to be delivered locally (depending on what day of the week you mail the letter - one of the sorting centers shuts down on weekends and the mail has to be passed on to another center that is open 7 days a week). And some of the mail simply disappears in the transfer process. My mother is still waiting on the High School Graduation notice for one of my nephews who will be graduating college this year.
Bill Griffin
Even Ham Radio operators love organic food. Especially here in SW lower MI.
Posts: 1607 | Location: Edwardsburg, MI Zone 5/6 | Registered: December 08, 2004
It's possible that the "machine" in question is a cancelling machine but probably the machine that your little town (as well as almost every little town in the US) doesn't have is a letter sorting machine. (I do know it's not a mail microwave oven.) It's not likely that the the reason you don't have one is due to money but due to the huge volume of mail that is necessary to "feed" one of these machines. When I worked in a facility with these machines, it consumed nearly the entire volume of unsorted first-class mail for every Post Office in the Zip Code area starting with 109, the over-populated area I grew up in within sight of the Manhattan skyline.
This is a huge machine with a number of operators sitting at small keyboards where letters are fed to them at the rate of about one per second during which the operators key in parts of the zip code (down the mail-stream, usually the first three digits of the zip code, and later, closer to home, perhaps the final digits.) The operators never touch the letter and it zips off to a bin designated by the operators keystrokes. These sorting machines are operated throughout the day and night at large processing centers across the US.
It really is (or at least was, when I was a postal employee) an efficient and cost saving method of processing huge volumes of mail, despite a perceived lunacy many people have of shipping local mail a hundred miles or more only to feed it through "The Machine" and ship it right back.
(I was offered the "opportunity" to work at one of these machines and after a few half-hour sessions found the whole idea to be incredibly mind-numbing. The one extra level of pay given to the machine operators was not worth putting my mind on hold for such a large part of my life.)
Wayne
I dunno Wayne, A practical prankster like myself could have some fun. There is no telling where I would send stuff just hitting a few keys. I'd be like Lucy at the Chocolate factory.
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Posts: 1047 | Location: Texas Zone 8 | Registered: March 06, 2007
I dunno Wayne, A practical prankster like myself could have some fun. There is no telling where I would send stuff just hitting a few keys. I'd be like Lucy at the Chocolate factory.
Actually, a supervisor sat at the end of the letter sorting machine and would regularly select an operator to check on. A number of letters would be diverted to the supervisory bin along with a print-out of what the prankster operator keyed in.
Wayne
"If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
Posts: 1425 | Location: Zone 4a, transplanted to the hills of Western Maine. | Registered: October 07, 2005
