MPhasis Labelling Party, June 26, 2001

 

MPhasis Labelling Party, June 26, 2001

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The labelling party was held at Susan's coop. That page shows many pictures of her coop. Here is a little movie (10 seconds, 220K bytes) of my mom and Claire applying labels to the newsletters.
Mom (Bertha) and Claire. If your browser is not set up to show movies you will get a dialog box instead of a player and can just press cancel.
Opposite my mom was Marty and an unidentified party (she didn't want pictures taken of her) diligently at work. Marty.
Here is a still shot of mom and Claire working. In the center of the table there are unlabeled newsletters and rubber bands. Claire is getting an unlabeled newsletter. Mom (Bertha) and Claire. At the end of the table (opposite me) and between my mom and Marty was Cleo. After a bundle was labelled, we would put two rubber bands around them like this. Cleo.
Here is Marty putting a second rubber band around a bundle. Marty wrapping bundle. Later Jay arrived and Susan took a break while Jay had some of the lemon cake (sitting to my left). Doesn't it look yummy. Jay.
After a bit, Marty took a break and Rich arrived. Jay and Rich then set about labelling. Jay and Rich. Here's another picture of Claire, an experienced programmer, continuing with the labelling. Claire.
After each bundle was done, it would be put into a mail bag until that zip code group (first three digits) was done. Here's another picture of Jay. Jay getting label. The full bags were carried out to the hallway until all the labels were done. Here I am carrying a full bag. Brian picking up bag.
Then we would carry all the bags out to the elevator. My mom supervised the carrying and took pictures. Brian carrying bags. We took the bags out to Rich's SUV and loaded all 27 bags (2,000 newsletters) in. He drove them to the Post Office. Brian (hidden) and Rich.
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