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Bits and Bytes Volume 11, No. 05 (1989-11)(Apple Computing Enjoyment Society)(Side A).zip
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MAILING YOUR DISKS
By Stan Feller
Here's a cutie from Apple Pickers via Poke-Apple:
"When mailing disks through the mail system, you need to do
some special things. The first is that you need to wrap it
in 'tin foil'. This protects the disk from X-ray machines
and any electro-magnetic devices that it may encounter.
Secondly, you should make sure you mail the disk in a padded
or cushioned container, and lastly, mark the package clearly
of its contents so it will be handled correctly. The
information was obtained from the Indianapolis Postal
Service."
Gentle readers, when you receive this disk in its simple
unpadded, un-tinfoiled wrapper, think of the above message.
Does the Indianapolis Postal Service know something we don't
know? Are they rougher in the mid-west than they are here
in the south? A little bit of history about our own mailing
methods might be appropriate at this point. When it was
first decided by ACES that a disk newsletter might be a good
idea, an experiment was tried. A regular 5.25 disk was
formatted and a simple message was imprinted on it in the
context that this disk was being sent through the mail with
NO protection. The bare disk, no sleeve, no anything had an
address label and a stamp affixed and addressed to the ACES
post office box. It was dropped into a mail box, not to a
postal clerk. Upon being received at the box, it worked
perfectly on a IIe. A member, who was returning to his home
in Toronto, Ontario, volunteered to take that same disk, add
his message to it and do the same thing again, dropping it
into a mailbox after affixing a new address label and
another stamp directly onto the bare disk. Yep, it was
completely playable upon receipt.
When we decided to go into this newsdisk format, the mailing
was prettied up a little bit using the original sleeve and a
printed light stock mailer folder such as your copy came in
this time. Sure, we've had some complaints of poor
condition upon delivery, but then some ordinary letters get
received in bad shape too. So who is right - the postal
service of Indianapolis or us naive mailers??? What do you
think?