On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 04:07:04PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
> Ethan Dicks wrote:
> >On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 08:52:12PM -0700, ed sharpe wrote:
> >does ups pick up at the south pole? <grin>
> >
> >Ah, no. USPS only, and not for 5 more months.
> >
> I figured they would leave that task to the New York Air National Guard,
> the folks who support Operation Deep Freeze down there at the bottom of
> the world.
NYANG does the flying, but the USPS accepts the packages before they enter
the Military APO system at SFO.
It makes some things a pain, like when I was ordering parts this summer
to build my Popular Electronics Elf... I had to use vendors that were
willing to put a package in the U.S. Mail (B.G. Micro was great about it).
I ordered a lens for my digital camera, and it had to go home first (Olympus
America only ships UPS), then _they_ put it in the mail... took weeks longer
than it needed to, and I had to pay shipping twice!
-ethan
P.S. - Operation Deep Freeze is no longer - the Navy disbanded its
detachments about five years ago, after they handed all the land-based
operations to civilian contractors, and the flying to NYANG (LC-130s)
and PHI (helos).
--
Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 15-Jun-2004 03:20 Z
South Pole Station
PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -83.5 F (-64.2 C) Windchill -117.5 F (-83.09 C)
APO AP 96598 Wind 7.7 kts Grid 062 Barometer 684.3 mb (10464. ft)
Ethan.Dicks_at_amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html
Received on Mon Jun 14 2004 - 22:28:16 BST