At 14:49 1/29/02, Joel wrote:
While doing a brief google search in the abortive attempt to find the
source of the article, I see that the USPS is trying to get out of the
responsibility of irradiating mail altogether. Personally, I think the
irradiation scheme is falling apart.
Daring to be hopeful,
Joel W.
Joel,
Wrote what I did with a little tongue in cheek, but feel as you do. The
ill-conceived scheme is falling apart. Plain letter mail is being singed
which embrittles the paper, windows on "window" envelopes are melting to
the mail underneath, etc. I called my congressman's office last Fall just
after the USPS announced their plan to implement the electron bombardment
scheme. I expressed my concern it was a rush to implement a radically
severe and potentially very damaging (to the mails) technology with ZERO
testing for unintended consequences. Electron beam irradiation isn't just
an electro-magntetic field akin to X-Rays. That's actually a "side effect"
from the massive quantities of charged particles flying around
(eletctrons). It's really an extremely high energy atomic particle
bombardment (big, big difference).
It's my strong suspicion (without any inside knowledge) the USPS and a
number of others on Capitol Hill are looking for a very, very quiet way out
after having gotten an initial sampling of what the equivalent of an
molecular level machine gun does to common objects and materials.
-- John
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