[at-l] Re: 2002 Hikes

[thornel@attglobal.net (W F Thorneloe)]

I suspect that the lessons learned from the Unabomber will apply. If you 
wish to mail a large package, you will have to have appropriate postage and 
labeling at a post office. You would have to declare its contents if it 
shouldn't be subject to x-ray or other irradiation. This will create more 
lines and inconvenience at the post office. It will also increase the 
likelihood that the other commercial mail services will have their 
procedures probed and tested as we have seen the USPS weaknesses uncovered 
and airport/airline security flaws exploited.

Hopefully for most of us hikers, changes to mail security shouldn't be such 
a major problem. POG has given us very reasonable and safe procedures to do 
mail drops. I wonder if some places holding mail drops will decide to stop 
this service out of concern for their own security. I hope new security 
procedures will provide credible reassurance.

OrangeBug

At 03:41 PM 10/29/2001 +0000, Jim and/or Ginny Owen wrote:
>Maybe they'll come up with a system to allow specific items to bypass the 
>radiation - but I won't count on it.