Haha, I picked that years ago, before working there. I don't even intend on being there long from now. And drop one of the e's. It generally depicts how I play in FPS games.
Note - The problem is the VOLUME of people that do not add St or Avenue.
When I mentioned Kansas City metro as being frustrating. I MEANT IT! The number out of the facility itself is 72% of inter-KCmetro addressing drops off the suffix.
BIG Misconception - We don't give a damn about anything above the address line unless it is a business/non-person entity, or a building (by name).
You could be John Smith Jr and get mail addressed as Michael Jackson. As long as the address is correct, it goes there.
I said specifically, MOST of the problem lies with bad addressing. Granted things happen like letters getting stuck in mail trays at facilities and not being discovered for a few days, but putting mail through manual sorting because some dumbass neglected to add a St or Ave and we have to hunt down a solution is extremely time consuming.
Actually, yeah. That'd help a lot. Most printed mail gets through the software. We still get a lot of it, usually if the camera is dirty, but not nearly as much as handwritten mail.
The biggest problem with mail arriving late lies with people unable to write, unable to address, and unable to even stamp mailpieces properly.
How the badly addressed mail process works in short:
Mail is brought to the General Mail Facility, where it is run through machines that attempt to read the addresses. The software isn't perfect, quite a few aren't readable to it. The digital image is sent to various Remote Encoding Sites in which people (like me) try to decipher the addresses and input them properly. The information is sent back to the GMF, barcode is printed on, and the piece goes its way. If we cannot decipher it, the image gets rejected, and the mailpiece goes to manual sorting.
Why it takes so long sometimes
A tremendous amount of people do not know how to address. They do not include directionals. They do not include street suffixes. Transposition of zip codes, or downright incorrect ones in contrast to the city destination. If you want your mail to get somewhere fast, place a Zip+4 and make sure it is correct. That is the first number we look at.
Directionals and suffixes are important. An especially frustrating case is the Kansas City metro area. Where there can be a 31st Street, Place, Avenue, Road, Circle, Court, Terrace. On top of that, North/South/East/West.
Abbreviation of streets and cities is another frustrating issue. I work in Wichita, KS. We receive images from facilities in Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, and New York. Some street in Minneapolis with a long name that is routinely abbreviated by residents is foreign to those 800 miles away. Please write the street in full.
Zip Codes. These are very important. The computers read these first. We read these first. An irritating tendancy for people in the northeast is to drop off the 0 in their 5 digit zips. This is especially true in Connecticut. Ever wonder why sometimes it really takes 7-9 days for something to go across town? Because its getting sent to Kansas City and run through the system before it gets straightened out and sent back.
Lastly, bad handwriting. Try to be careful about 5 and S, Zero and O, and 9 and 4.
Its not the method or length of the period I'm pointing out, its how long ago it happened and poking fun at/.'s consistent way of putting out ancient information... in this case, years old.
I still use a perfectly functional 13 year old Citizen GSX-130 dot matrix. And I'm pretty sure the 21 year old Commodore printer would still work if I hadn't dismantled it years ago, hehe.
1940-1975 was about the same time when the "Global Warming Crowd" was the "Global Cooling Crowd"
But because of junk science and twisted media, they are allowed to have it both ways.
However, I'm bringing several more systems online to work the data over as well, to give credit to myself =)
I seriously can't wait to see the new Aussie telescope data, I spend a lot of time pouring over the data chunks I get out of Arecibo on my own, its really fascinating stuff.
There is no logical reason why one part of the sky will have more chance of detecting a signal than any other.
Yes there is. The Arecibo radio telescope is situated in the northern hemisphere, which can only view the outer arms of the Milky Way. Not only that, Aricebo can only sweep 30 degrees of the sky with 1 beam.
Parkers is in the southern hemisphere, which can view the central dense mass (laymans' term - lots of freaking stars in the middle) of the Milky Way, and sweep 70 degrees of the sky with 13 beams.
In other words, we went all over 30 degrees in the northern hemisphere, lets take a look at the highly populated (star-wise) section of the Milky Way in the unscanned southern hemisphere with a bigger and better telescope.
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Haha, I picked that years ago, before working there. I don't even intend on being there long from now. And drop one of the e's. It generally depicts how I play in FPS games.
Note - The problem is the VOLUME of people that do not add St or Avenue.
When I mentioned Kansas City metro as being frustrating. I MEANT IT! The number out of the facility itself is 72% of inter-KCmetro addressing drops off the suffix.
Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong
BIG Misconception - We don't give a damn about anything above the address line unless it is a business/non-person entity, or a building (by name).
You could be John Smith Jr and get mail addressed as Michael Jackson. As long as the address is correct, it goes there.
I said specifically, MOST of the problem lies with bad addressing. Granted things happen like letters getting stuck in mail trays at facilities and not being discovered for a few days, but putting mail through manual sorting because some dumbass neglected to add a St or Ave and we have to hunt down a solution is extremely time consuming.
Actually, yeah. That'd help a lot. Most printed mail gets through the software. We still get a lot of it, usually if the camera is dirty, but not nearly as much as handwritten mail.
The biggest problem with mail arriving late lies with people unable to write, unable to address, and unable to even stamp mailpieces properly.
How the badly addressed mail process works in short:
Mail is brought to the General Mail Facility, where it is run through machines that attempt to read the addresses. The software isn't perfect, quite a few aren't readable to it. The digital image is sent to various Remote Encoding Sites in which people (like me) try to decipher the addresses and input them properly. The information is sent back to the GMF, barcode is printed on, and the piece goes its way. If we cannot decipher it, the image gets rejected, and the mailpiece goes to manual sorting.
Why it takes so long sometimes
A tremendous amount of people do not know how to address. They do not include directionals. They do not include street suffixes. Transposition of zip codes, or downright incorrect ones in contrast to the city destination. If you want your mail to get somewhere fast, place a Zip+4 and make sure it is correct. That is the first number we look at.
Directionals and suffixes are important. An especially frustrating case is the Kansas City metro area. Where there can be a 31st Street, Place, Avenue, Road, Circle, Court, Terrace. On top of that, North/South/East/West.
Abbreviation of streets and cities is another frustrating issue. I work in Wichita, KS. We receive images from facilities in Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, and New York. Some street in Minneapolis with a long name that is routinely abbreviated by residents is foreign to those 800 miles away. Please write the street in full.
Zip Codes. These are very important. The computers read these first. We read these first. An irritating tendancy for people in the northeast is to drop off the 0 in their 5 digit zips. This is especially true in Connecticut. Ever wonder why sometimes it really takes 7-9 days for something to go across town? Because its getting sent to Kansas City and run through the system before it gets straightened out and sent back.
Lastly, bad handwriting. Try to be careful about 5 and S, Zero and O, and 9 and 4.
ATI had their own cheating debacle a few years back.
Quake 3 vs Quack 3
Guess that clinches it. We can finally digitize every Playboy printed.
Its not the method or length of the period I'm pointing out, its how long ago it happened and poking fun at /.'s consistent way of putting out ancient information... in this case, years old.
There was a sudden mass extinction of dinosaurs. More on this as it develops.
I knew /. liked to post old stuff, but its starting to get out of hand
Check out The RIAA's Website Unresponsive. Looks like we got the opening salvo.
I still use a perfectly functional 13 year old Citizen GSX-130 dot matrix. And I'm pretty sure the 21 year old Commodore printer would still work if I hadn't dismantled it years ago, hehe.
1940-1975 was about the same time when the "Global Warming Crowd" was the "Global Cooling Crowd" But because of junk science and twisted media, they are allowed to have it both ways.
Guess not. Maybe I should RTFA. I was thinking of another tank thingie. I didn't want that karma anyway.
I know its a dupe, I remember seeing it, I just can't find the damn article in the archives [yet].
Were running a webserver after we're through with it.
I also vote for going to the bathroom more frequently.
Ahh, Slashdot. Flamebait through truth. Someone's got a political bone to pick to mod that one down.
Tritium is highly radioactive.
Deuterium is not.
And they're the elements needed to undergo fusion, not byproducts.
Byproduct of fusion of that sort is a neutron and a helium atom.
IMs are already spammed to death. Load up ICQ, AIM, YIM, MSNIM - get spammed.
I get more spam through messengers than email, oddly enough.
Nobody.
They probably write in special clauses that include transfer of ownership of soul and all worldly possessions etc etc.
But chicks apparently dig guys who try to define what the meaning of "is" is.
So do we find some sort of happy medium?
Parkes telescope.
Bah, I cannot type at 5:30 in the morning.
2618? Nice, I'm up to 2794.
However, I'm bringing several more systems online to work the data over as well, to give credit to myself =)
I seriously can't wait to see the new Aussie telescope data, I spend a lot of time pouring over the data chunks I get out of Arecibo on my own, its really fascinating stuff.
There is no logical reason why one part of the sky will have more chance of detecting a signal than any other.
Yes there is. The Arecibo radio telescope is situated in the northern hemisphere, which can only view the outer arms of the Milky Way. Not only that, Aricebo can only sweep 30 degrees of the sky with 1 beam.
Parkers is in the southern hemisphere, which can view the central dense mass (laymans' term - lots of freaking stars in the middle) of the Milky Way, and sweep 70 degrees of the sky with 13 beams.
In other words, we went all over 30 degrees in the northern hemisphere, lets take a look at the highly populated (star-wise) section of the Milky Way in the unscanned southern hemisphere with a bigger and better telescope.
Common sense, really.