Re: [photo-3d] Fear of losing stereo images in the mail

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

George wrote:
> >Well I beg to differ, a lot depends upon the town 
> >you live in as well.
> 
> I have noticed people from New York City have this fear
> more than others... even if they move away to, say,
> San Diego.
> 

I guess that's my cue to speak up.

US Postal service in NYC is really bad.  From personal experience, it
is not uncommon for birthday cards and the like to take a week or more
to go from the Bronx (where my Grandmother lives) to Queens.  That's
intracity.  I had warehouse rents check go "missing" three months in a
row (I actually suspect the warehouse staff of losing the checks,
either through neglect or to collect late fees), but when I switched
to sending rent checks via certified mail with return receipt the
receipts started to disappear.

Recently there was (yet another) scandal when a large number of people
complained that the IRS was charging them late fees for non-payment of
back taxes.  It winds up that there were bags and bags of undelivered
tax forms (with April 15 postmarks) sitting in a corner of one of the
Post Office sorting facilities (in Brooklyn I think).

Having said all that I have sent originals (including one from my
honeymoon) to both Joel Alper's MF folio and the Paul Talbot's MF Expo
2000.

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