Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!fortune!rpw3 From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: ZIP code -> city name blues - (nf) Message-ID: <2766@fortune.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 07:02:56 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2766 Posted: Fri Mar 16 07:02:56 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Mar-84 02:41:30 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 25 #R:mhuxj:-122900:fortune:39400002:000:1062 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 UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3 DDD: (415)595-8444 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065