I saw a news report of a company in Vancouver BC, Canada who has, what was referred to as the largest facility in North America at this time for this sort of thing. The company has had some dialogue with Canadian and US postal services and in the report they specifically mentioned that film going through the process would be ruined.
From the news reports this kind of system, is still not capable of handling the high speed processing that the automatic mail handling equipment employs. So I don't think we will be seeing any kind of process on a mass scale any time soon. Perhaps at strategic destination locations, but not in the general mail sorting equipment. Cheers, Mike. Cheers, Mike. Shel Belinkoff wrote: >Has irradiation, of the type proposed to be used by the USPS, been shown >to cause problems with film? If so, what problems? Or is this another >"internet-sky-is-falling" worry based on assumption rather than fact or >even anecdotal evidence. What's being proposed is not X-rays, which can >sometimes cause problems, but something other. > >Eric Lawton wrote: > >>I was reading the news regarding >>the USPS begining to irradiate our >>mail and I got to thinking about >>the problems that would cause when >>sending undeveloped film through the mail. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
