> "The Postal Service yesterday awarded a contract to the Titan > Corporation of San Diego, CA, to provide electron beam systems and > services to sanitize mail. Titan will subcontract with its subsidiary > SureBeam to provide the proprietary electron beam systems.
Good Morning America interviewed the head of the company this morning. He said that electronics and undeveloped film will be zapped. Presumably places like B&H and Adorama will not ship film through U.S. mail any more. The difficulty will be pre-paid film mailers for Quaalex or Fuji, or sending film to a place like Dale's. > According to PMG Jack Potter, one of the first areas to receive > equipment will be the greater Washington Metropolitan Area, when > delivery of the systems begins next month." He also said that the plan is to have these machines eventually (w/in a year?) at all sorting facilities. Joe - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
