Please forgive me a little preaching; I have thought about this and
it has to be said...
"Smart bombs", like computers, will only do as they are told by their
(generally) imperfect operators. I have seen the results of
imperfect operators' work - it is just as devastating as those who
did their jobs properly, or who were luckier than their colleagues in
the other aircraft. And this assumes that the intelligence troops
and the target pickers were doing their jobs properly!
"Bureaucrats" like any other functionary, will only do as they are
told by their policy-makers. I would venture to suggest, that since
it is the postal workers who are in the front line at home, as it
were, that you offer them advice on how to satisfy their customers
without risking their lives or those of other customers.
I think that you will find such advice difficult to formulate - and I
write from the relative safety of the other side of the pond ...
Chris
At 12:47 -0800 8/11/01, Timpe, Jim wrote:
We can make 'smart' bombs, but the bureaucrats....
-----Original Message-----
From: M. Royer [mailto:royer007@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 12:46 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Postal Radiation
Don't you just love beureacracy and nonsensical rules
:)
Mark Lloyd
--- Tom Scales <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So, in other words, if I am a terrorist, I should
send everything in photo
mailers?
Tom
> My regional postal center tells me that they will
distinguish between
> film and processing mailers if clearly labeled
when they irradiate
> the mail to kill any bacteria/viruses. I am not
sure how that will
> prevent a mailer from recontaminating the other
mail. So I am not
> sure whether to believe it.
> --
> Winsor Crosby
> Long Beach, California
>
>
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