sorter
47 photos tagged sorter, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.
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Related tags
Tags that often appear on the same photos:
- conveyor
- qiktip
- uspostalservice
- rohr
- unknownlocation
- mailsorting
- materielhandling
- postoffice
- 05231973
- esbrower
- 05151973
- portland
- oregon
- 1972
- portlandpostoffice
- chute
- materialhandling
- 1974
- stayclear
- jimwilson
- post
- machine
- data
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Recent uploads
The last upload was 28 April.
26_0074861 Rohr Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded 28 April
26_0074859 Rohr Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded 28 April
26_0074860 Rohr Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded 28 April
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26_0074856 Rohr Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded 28 April
26_0074857 Rohr Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded 28 April
26_0074855 Rohr Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded 28 April
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26_0074852 Rohr Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded 28 April
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26_0074851 Rohr Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded 28 April
26_0074849 Rohr Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded 28 April
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26_0074848 Rohr Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded 28 April
26_0074845 Rohr Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded 28 April
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26_0074826 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
This is like a railroad siding. Those wheeled conveyor things drop off and park.
26_0074831 Rohr Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Chuck Walla said:
Reminds me of "Naming of the Parts," by Henry Reed.
Guess: this is a bidders' tour. People who are interested in bidding on whatever postal contract is being let attend this in order to construct costs and a timeline.
The wheeled conveyor parts look like something built by an aerospace company. Some public news articles suggest Pitney-Bowes and Lockheed were awarded contracts by the Postal Service over the years.
If you support this thing, you have a tough logistics problem.
How do you make all of this work with no bar codes and no optical character recognition?