Won't UPS, Fedex, and Airborne be happy (at least for a while)? Tom C.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Tainter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: rec.photo.film+labs To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 8:41 AM Subject: Irradiation > > "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 .
