From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #98 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Saturday, April 21 2007 Volume 07 : Number 098 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] pour on the guilt ["Larry Tucker" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:05:43 -0400 From: "Larry Tucker" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] pour on the guilt When I was in college back in the mid 70's I worked at a UPS sort facility in Charlotte. It was really quite amazing to see how many packages were "destroyed". They were usually safe in the trucks and in transit, it was once the package entered the building on to the various belts, slides and chutes that the real fun began. The problem was much worse at Christmas. At the Charlotte hub on a typical late night shift we'd handle about 150K packages in 4 hours which usually went fine, but at Christmas this could turn into 300K packages, which was quite beyond the systems handling capacity and thus package traffic jams ensued. Quite funny to have an Adam & Eve package break open and see dildos scattered all over the building getting lodged in the equipment. Larry On 4/19/07, Michael Mitton wrote: > > > > In other news, my latest CD shipment from Amazon failed to arrive as > scheduled today, and upon checking "track package" at UPS, I was > informed that it was sent out for delivery at 10:52 AM, and then at > 1:25 PM it said "PACKAGE DESTROYED". The more I imagine what could > possibly have happened, the funnier it gets. > > mm > > On 4/19/07, outbound-only email address wrote: > > Semi-educated guess - it's probably roughly the same and almost > certainly > > much better than making 8 CD-Rs or whatever the equivalent is. You do > run > > the laser at burning power longer to make a DVD than a CD, so it takes a > bit > > more power for each one. I don't know how much difference there is in > the > > dye compounds, I'd guess not very much; maybe none. If I had a device > that > > would play DVD-Rs with MP3s on them I'd definitely go that route myself. > > > > np GB 3 _Circlework_ ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #98 ******************************