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From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: ZIP code -> city name blues - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 07:02:56 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 16 07:02:56 1984
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fortune!rpw3    Mar 16 03:17:00 1984

Boulder/Denver is not unique. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, if you
mail from anywhere on the Peninsula to some place half a mile away, it all
gets trucked up to San Francisco (20-45 miles) for sorting. Even if you mail
a first class letter at the 24-hour window at the SFO Airport mail facility,
and even if it's going out of state, it gets trucked back up to San Francisco
(~25 miles) for "sorting", only to come right back to the SAME mail room to
go on a plane.

Certified Mail (and above, including Express Mail) gets sorted there at the
airport, and goes out directly on the next plane with no trucking. So for
most major destination cities, Certified Mail was nearly as fast as Express
Mail, if mailed at the airport (at the window, NOT in one of the "drop boxes";
THEY went to the City, no matter what!).

(Don't ask why it became important for me to know this information :-<  )

Rob Warnock

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