The Truth Behind Postal Delays

[KG4CGC]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cWzpxAdzBk&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cWzpxAdzBk&feature=player_embedded

[W1GUH]

Is it the flipping box (huh-huh), or the postal worker off the job shooting the video instead of taking action?

[KG4CGC]

Is it the flipping box (huh-huh), or the postal worker off the job shooting the video instead of taking action?

Don't you just want to reach out and make it sit flat?

[PA5COR]

Shaken but not stirred?

[W1GUH]

Don't you just want to reach out and make it sit flat?

Like someone shouda? Yep! That was my new Orion!

[n2ize]

I must admit it does have a catchy beat. What the heck was in that box ? a column of steel balls ? It reminds my of those plastic jumping beans we used to play with when we were children. You know the kind ? They looked like a plastic pill capsule and they had a little steel ball bearing within. As long as you held them on an incline they would keep on tumbling and tumbling.

[W5GA]

Was there a fragile sticker on that?
There curious want to know...why was that the ONLY box on that line? I'm thinking staged, here.

[ki4itv]

Was there a fragile sticker on that?
There curious want to know...why was that the ONLY box on that line? I'm thinking staged, here.
Yep, I got the impression most of the sorting happens all at once, not one box at a time.

I lived at the end of a FED EX sorting facility Runway in Southhaven (Memphis). In the wee hours of the morning, a thousand screaching, roaring, fire breathing flying machines would descend into the neighborhood only to start departing an hour or so later...
quite an operation.

[kf0rt]

Yep, I got the impression most of the sorting happens all at once, not one box at a time.

I lived at the end of a FED EX sorting facility Runway in Southhaven (Memphis). In the wee hours of the morning, a thousand screaching, roaring, fire breathing flying machines would descend into the neighborhood only to start departing an hour or so later...
quite an operation.

Busiest airport in the world (at that time of day).

[K7SGJ]

I bet it was a dildo with batteries that turned itself on.

[kb2crk]

Don't you just want to reach out and make it sit flat?

Yes, but that would be instant termination for violation of lock out tag out......

[n2ize]

Was there a fragile sticker on that?
There curious want to know...why was that the ONLY box on that line? I'm thinking staged, here.

That makes the video kind of suspect. I think that box was set up for the video.

[W1GUH]

Yep, I got the impression most of the sorting happens all at once, not one box at a time.

I lived at the end of a FED EX sorting facility Runway in Southhaven (Memphis). In the wee hours of the morning, a thousand screaching, roaring, fire breathing flying machines would descend into the neighborhood only to start departing an hour or so later...
quite an operation.

"Yep, I got the impression most of the sorting happens all at once, not one box at a time."

Good call. I installed a few computers in a big sorting facility in Secaucus, NJ, (back when Secaucus was nothing but pig farms and garbage dumps), and the conveyors never looked like that. There would have been mucho other packages to help it along. Besides, there would have been lots of people around to help it along, too.

Yep, staged all the way.

[kf0rt]

If ya only got one box, there ain't much to sort, is there?

[W1GUH]

Yep!

Interesting story from that job, ca 1973. We used HP 2114 computers. I was a hardware jock, but had fun playing with the computers. I wrote a short little program that was geared to one of the cooler electricians on the job. It was a simulation of him calling up a lady for a date.

After a few exchanges, it'd always wind up telling him to "Flake off, snakeshit!"

Now, these guys had never been up close to a computer like that and to them, it was magic. One guy walked away in amazement mumbling, "I didn't know computers could use that kind of language!"

Had a great time working with those hard-working, Union, tradesmen. They usually busted their asses doing whatever it took to get the job done. Hard workers all the way. What was kind of fun was that the job of supporting us geeks (who couldn't touch their work) was seen as a "gravy" job. Made for a beautiful working relationship. They earned every freaquin' penny they earned. Bless 'em all!

[WØTKX]

By your command...

http://d116.com/vcf/east/1.0/hp2114a.jpg

[W1GUH]

By your command...

http://d116.com/vcf/east/1.0/hp2114a.jpg

Ahhhh....thanks for the memories! (Core, of "cores").

Those keys are touch sensitive...don't move at all. When you touch one you hear a "click". Turns out that click comes from a relay mounted on the front panel Serves no other purpose than to make the click sound.

[kb2vxa]

"Was there a fragile sticker on that?"

No, I didn't see any employees (like at UPS) playing football with it.

[ka4dpo]

So that's what happened to my new 3-500 tube...

[NA4BH]

Glad it wasn't a shipment of nitroglycerin.