From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/11867 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin.Christian@symbios.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Caps postage Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:07:57 -0600 Sender: kchrist@arrakis.co.symbios.com Message-ID: <376.718238885765$1042185724@news.gmane.org> References: Reply-To: Kevin.Christian@symbios.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151507 485 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:05:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:05:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id MAA04010 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 12:03:28 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA01060 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 13:58:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 19:08:18 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 2221 invoked by uid 504); 12 Aug 1997 17:08:13 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 2218 invoked from network); 12 Aug 1997 17:08:13 -0000 Original-Received: from mpdgw2.symbios.com (204.131.200.2) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 12 Aug 1997 17:08:12 -0000 Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by mpdgw2.symbios.com (8.6.8.1/8.6.6) id LAA26757; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:08:09 -0600 Original-Received: from aztec.co.symbios.com(153.72.199.214) by mpdgw2.symbios.com via smap (V1.3) id sma026727; Tue Aug 12 11:08:01 1997 Original-Received: from arrakis. (arrakis.co.symbios.com [153.72.176.240]) by Symbios.COM (8.6.8.1/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA20082; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:08:00 -0600 Original-Received: from arrakis by arrakis. (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA27061; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:07:57 -0600 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 Original-To: Jason R Mastaler In-reply-to: Your message of "12 Aug 1997 10:33:33 MDT." Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11867 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:11867 In message , Jason R Mastaler writes: > Danny Siu writes: > > > BTW, UPS (United Postal Service), the US mail service is on strike. Today > > is their 9th day on strike and there is no resolution yet. But hopefully, > > by the time I receive the capp package, they will be back working and we al > l > > will have a cool capp for the rest of the summer. (:-P > > UPS stands for "United Parcel Service" and is a corporation. It is a > seperate entity from the United States Postal Service which is > government run. This strike won't affect our caps luckily. :-) > > Jason R. Mastaler jason@mastaler.com > Well, UPS and USPS are different things but chances are it will affect caps delivery. UPS had so much traffic going though it that other carriers can't simply split it among themselves. If I remember correctly, as soon as the UPS strike started the US Postal Service put a 4 package per visit limit on their lines. This may mean several trips to the post office for whoever plays the role of postmaster for distributing US caps. Better to hope that the strike will be over by September. Lars: Instead of a single distribution point for the US, how about multiple points per urban center? Not as effective but maybe a single drop at a university dorm can cover several people. Kevin