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MagickalMemories wrote:HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

um, what they said... ^ ^^ & ^^^

(I couldn't have said it better myself)

Happy new years, everyone.

I think mm started hitting the sauce early this afternoon...

by MagickalMemories » Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:03 pm

happy 2 years till the end of the world!

EZ mac wrote:happy 2 years till the end of the world!

On that happy note... ...Happy New Year anyway!!

AJC

EZ mac wrote:I think mm started hitting the sauce early this afternoon...

by MagickalMemories » Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:03 pm

happy 2 years till the end of the world!

If you truly beleive that, then run up your credit cards & take out as many loans as you can & live well for 2 years. You wont have to pay it back if you are right.

But remember Y2k ??

Im hoping for the Zombie Apocalypse myself. Then I can shoot my neighbors without any legal repercussions!

We got a new year? What bottle was I stuck in last night?

EZ mac wrote:I think mm started hitting the sauce early this afternoon...

by MagickalMemories » Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:03 pm

happy 2 years till the end of the world!

No. No. I was just getting an early jump.

I knew that I would not be in ANY position to operate a computer, much less Administrate a web site, at ANY point after about 8pm last night.

Woo hoo.


Eric

Some of us worked THROUGH the new year. [and xmas].

kturock wrote:Some of us worked THROUGH the new year. [and xmas].

Then where the hell is my package?!! I'm sure you saw it as it was being raced down one of those conveyer belts.


For those of you that don't know, K works USPS as he is our resident PostMasta Blasta. No trade involving K and I have occured, so don't think I am sniping at him!

Stanislav wrote:

kturock wrote:Some of us worked THROUGH the new year. [and xmas].

Then where the hell is my package?!! I'm sure you saw it as it was being raced down one of those conveyer belts.


For those of you that don't know, K works USPS as he is our resident PostMasta Blasta. No trade involving K and I have occured, so don't think I am sniping at him!

I think it was the one that the machine ate.
Each section of the conveyor system that 'feeds' the parcel sorting machine is 6 feet whide and 10 feet long. They raise and lower 5 feet. There are 6 sections that size that are in-line and fed by another section that is 50 feet long, on an incline. When each section lowers, the ground shakes below. They are 10+ feet up in the air. The ground is poured concrete with asphalt tiles on top. I have no idea how heavy they are, but when it jams open or closed, we can't move it by hand. So if it jams on your package, "remains non-viewable' comes to mind.

The sorter machine itself, has been on a steady diet of styrfoam wrapped coffee mugs. They're just light enought to literally float on the belts until the get stuck and go over the end of the belt/chain. Then they get crushed in about 2 seconds and stop the system.

New Years Eve the multi-million dollar mail transport system ate a bucket of mail, 2 stories up. Then it broke a coupling. Picture school desk style table tops being pulled around on a chain-track. The mail survived. the chain broke a link. It won't be in until Sunday morning. We got to unload the entire system about 2000 trays and buckets. It took over 10 hours to empty. Fun, fun.

If you ever saw how mail gets processed. You'd be amazed; that it works. and THAT IT WORKS?

2 saturdays before xmas, we handled, in my facility, 1.5 million pieces of outgoing mail. THats 1st class mail that was mailed from people and businesses. NO the bills any ads you receive, but the payments and cards. Incoming isn't counted as closely. We're still getting and processing packages. When the airlines stop flying, the mail stops moving.