THE POST OFFICE

[asher]

Ohhh, I've heard. I'm getting ready to work relief for my reg. carrier...8 days on...we'll see how I like it after that. ;-)

 

[pips&peeps]

I was talking to my husband tonight about the aluminum foil thing and how the post office scans items now. Since he works with a supplier to Smith's Detection which makes most of the scanners used in todays market.

It is pointless to wrap your eggs in aluminum foil because:

The system is filmsafe and able to penetrate steel up to 30 mm. Objects of 60 cm width and 40cm height and unlimited length can be scanned routinely. HI-SCAN 6040ds is very easy to operate. The scanned objects can be visualised as classified material groups allowing the operator to identify the contents easily and precisely.

A quote on a product specification on used to scan mail and packages. It gets penetrated anyway.

He also said that the radiation given off by one of these scanners is way beyond minimal. It's not an x-ray machine like they used 20+ years ago. They are not real x-ray machines we picture at the Doctors office. Remember you couldn't run high speed photo film through the baggage scanners, but things have changed.

So, you can't blame scanners for your eggs being infertile when they arrive at their destination....​

 

[conny63malies]

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aluminum foil wont help. You would have to wrap them in lead.

 

[duckman]

well it all depends on the postal carrier.

once a feiend of ours had some shipped and the post man left the eggs on the cement floor in the grage in the winter because no one was home. they sat there almost 2 days and only one hatche.

 

[asher]

Hmmm...technically, he didn't even have to do that and could have left them outside. Was the friend of yours on vacation at the time or just didn't know they arrived? (I don't go inside at all, I'll leave packages at a door or overhang or carport (open), but I won't go inside. Too many unknowns (hiding dogs? freaky people? snakes?

).

 

[pdsavage]

wow my postal carrier would never leave my packages they leave me a uhm what ever that little note is called and tell me i have a package that needs picking up.
unless it fit in the mail box.....

 

[msrma7670]

After working for the state of Georgia for a few years I have seen all types of people. It just seems to me that the ones that do the poorest jobs at work are often the ones that will never be fired and they know it. However there is a gentleman in our post office that took my tracking number and telephone number to call me when my eggs showed up (ON MONDAY) yesterday afternoon he called to just tell me he checked on my package and where it was. I was rather impressed b/c normally at that post office it is very much the attiude
GO home and don't bother me. Customer service is very hard to come bye espically when you know your job is secure no matter what. Not everyone is like that I just wish there were more of them that treated stuff the way they wanted there stuff treated. I do apreciate the good postal carriers maybe ya'll could relocate down near my house!

 

[asher]

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It may depend on what they are taught and that particular office. As a relief carrier, I do what the reg. guy on my route tells me to do as he knows our customers better than I do. Also generally when someone moves in, they have you fill out a form about your preferences, where/if to leave packages, etc.

 

[Homegroanacres]

Can one of you PO workers speak to this.........

"Also dont send eggs express-they will end up in the bad part of the airplane.np pressure,heat ect"

If ya agree I need to get in touch with my next egg shipper and
change the shipping to something else.

Thought I was being smart to ship express!


John

 

[shortcake1806]

Sorry, Homegrown I don't know.