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Mech!

Postal workers discussion forum. Discuss the day to day life in a Blue Shirt.
doorstepped
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Mech!

Post by doorstepped »

so we have these wonderful mech trays that come in every morning full of walksorted mail.

however all the envelopes are either white or brown.

so with all this money that was spent on the sorting machines why can't they read off red, blue, green envelopes etc!!!

millions and millions spent on a colour blind computer system!!
Brain Fury
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Re: Mech!

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doorstepped wrote:so we have these wonderful mech trays that come in every morning full of walksorted mail.

however all the envelopes are either white or brown.

so with all this money that was spent on the sorting machines why can't they read off red, blue, green envelopes etc!!!

millions and millions spent on a colour blind computer system!!
Do you know of any that can? All the mail handling companies I know specify that dark coloured envelopes cannot be machine read.
doorstepped
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Re: Mech!

Post by doorstepped »

no I don't but you would have thought that someone would have sorted one out :)
Brain Fury
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Re: Mech!

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doorstepped wrote:no I don't but you would have thought that someone would have sorted one out :)

I know and where's that cure for cancer too! It can't be that difficult
doorstepped
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Re: Mech!

Post by doorstepped »

nice answer :thumbup
Tman
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Re: Mech!

Post by Tman »

Brain Fury wrote:
doorstepped wrote:so we have these wonderful mech trays that come in every morning full of walksorted mail.

however all the envelopes are either white or brown.

so with all this money that was spent on the sorting machines why can't they read off red, blue, green envelopes etc!!!

millions and millions spent on a colour blind computer system!!
Do you know of any that can? All the mail handling companies I know specify that dark coloured envelopes cannot be machine read.
Millions of red (this year's predominant colour) etc Xmas cards get processed OK, as do orange, brown and just about any other colour the designers seem to come up with in the rest of the year. Poorly printed CBC codes are a bigger problem.