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NW employees trash Christmas gifts problem ?
Airline Workers Toss Christmas Packages
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Northwest Airlines said Tuesday it may
punish baggage handlers caught on television treating holiday packages
like basketballs.
Footage shown by KSTP showed three workers taking packages off
a plane at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Monday, tossing
them over their heads and behind their backs or high into the air and
into a storage bin.
One package is seen crashing to the ground while others land on a pile.
Northwest officials who were shown the tape called it disturbing.
"We're going to want to follow up with these employees, find out what
they thought they were doing,'' said Northwest spokesman Jon Austin.
"This isn't how we want to do business.''
Northwest, along with other airlines, carries millions of pounds of mail
every year under contract to the Postal Service.
KSTP said its crew had stumbled onto the pre-Christmas scene while
working on another story. It said the airline workers were playing with the
packages in plain view.
Postal Service officials called the footage "very upsetting.'' |
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-So what? It is SOP to throw parcels from conveyor belts
into cages or "Westpaks" (large cardboard bins) during sorting at mail
processing plants. This is how parcels are sorted, and one should
expect one's parcel to be thrown and pack it accordingly.
At least when these missed they landed in the soft snow. When you
throw a parcel toward a mail cage and miss at a postal plant it lands
on the hard concrete floor!
Why is this even news? -That explains (at least partly) to me why I've found the US Postal Service
to be so bloody bad then. In all my time in Australia (20 years) and Europe (10 years) I have not had a single letter go missing or package get damaged.
Since my arrival in the states (9 months ago) this has happened to me 4
times. |
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