Frank Cooper Urbana, Il. Zone 5b min. temp -15°F; -26°C Very little snow cover. NARGS, AGS, SRGC, APS, APS, ARS, AFS,American Heather Society, American Hepatica Society, North American Native Orchid Society, Propagation mailing list, Orchid mailing list, Alpine-L, Perennial mailing list, Woody plants mailing list and Prairie mailing list.
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- To: astragalus
- Subject: Re: Crushed Seeds, Sooo Hard to Propogate
- From: F*@webtv.net (frank cooper)
- Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 03:19:02 -0500
What is written on a letter has absolutely nothing to do with whether on not a letter gets damaged. In a 3-4 hour period, three people will typically separate parcels, priority,1st class parcels, flats, non-machinable flats, metered letters, uncancelled parcels and chunks, periodicals, local mail, short paid, wrong meter dates, trash, rocks, labratory speimens, blood samples, water samples, stabs from poor staple jobs, milk shakes coffee, etc. from 150,000 to 200,000 letters These will be cancelled by two peopleat the rate of 35,000 pieces per operator per hour. Obviously when the letters are going across a 36" wide conveyer belt with the letters 6 inches deep they are not going to catch all of he non-machineable letters, especially the ones that are not in envelopes (folded paper). After culling they go on a conveyer that has a spiral roller that nudges out anything over ¼" thick. Anything over this should not make it into the cancelling machine. The very best to use are those little 1x2x4 boxes or the Priority video tape boxes. I have never seen any of these damaged. They would have to be run over by a forklift or tugger to be damaged. The point is, you must assume that nobody will see your letter until the delivery carrier sorts it and much of that is not seen by the carrier until he is walking down the street. If you must use letters, they must be in a SECURE LARGE bundle using good rubber bands, not the skinny ones, criss-crossed both ways. If this scrunches the bundle too much, then you are using a flimsey envelope.i.e. generally a 3 ounce letter cannot go through a machine. Seeds such as daphne must be put in a box. Frank Cooper Urbana, Il. Zone 5b min. temp -15°F; -26°C Very little snow cover. NARGS, AGS, SRGC, APS, APS, ARS, AFS,American Heather Society, American Hepatica Society, North American Native Orchid Society, Propagation mailing list, Orchid mailing list, Alpine-L, Perennial mailing list, Woody plants mailing list and Prairie mailing list.
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