Re: Postal 'sanitizing' and plant/seed safety
- Subject: Re: [SG] Postal 'sanitizing' and plant/seed safety
- From: B* N*
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:23:01 -0500
As a worker for Canada Post, going on 30 years, I would like to suggest
that millions of letter-mails are moving through letter-sorting-machines in
any given hour of the day, in any given Mail Processing Plant in North
America therefore, how in the heck would they begin to irradiate letter-mails?
Parcels, may be another story, but letter-mails? ..I think not!
Bill Nash Guelph Ontario Canada Zone 4
`````` and an average industrial worker, at KMPP (Kitchener Mail
Processing Plant)
At 10:44 AM 10/29/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Cross posting from another list...
>Ok campers,
>I delved into the subject of these Gamma (and x-ray irradiators) with Doug
>Huston head of the State of Oregon Department of Energy (Nucleur Safety).
>Sit down.
>You remember my chart of dosages- what causes mutations/ what causes death.
>My worst fears are being confirmed.
>He is talking exposures in Krads and had even heard of a Megarad dosage.
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>This will kill:
>All seed
>All plants
>All animals and pets
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>This will scramble:
>Credit Cards
>Computers, PDAs
>All magnetic media
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>This will expose:
>Any undeveloped film.
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>My suggestion of a lead-lined film pouch for protection was put aside. Two
>INCHES
>of lead would be required to protect from these dosages.
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>We will persevere, but until this lunacy ends -use UPS or Fed-Ex or DHL.
>(then again, how many
>tainted packages would it take to force them to use the same equipment?)
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>How many liberties are we willing to give up?
>Doug said the US Post Office is the place to respond.
>What is YOUR response?
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>>Hope this is off topic to the various lists..
>>If you are concerned why not contact your favorite seed source and
>>confirm their findings.
>>Connie
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