Page 6B/The Battalion/Wednesday, October 19,1983
Service delivers campus mail by the tons
by Elizabeth Hascall
Battalion Reporter
The University Mail Service
picks up about a ton of campus
mail every day.
The University Mail Service
does all the business with the
U.S. Postal Service for the facul
ty, staff and various depart
ments of Texas A&M, John Sta-
nislaw, director of the service
said. Every morning at 6:30 they
pick up the University’s mail at
the sectional post office in
Bryan, he said.
Picking the mail up instead of
waiting for it to be delivered
saves them about three hours ev
ery day, Stanislaw said.
The mail is then sorted and
sent out to 221 locations around
campus twice a day, he said.
The mail service also delivers
mail between the offices and de
partments of the University, he
said. There is no charge for in
tracampus mail, he said.
The service sends out mail for
the University and bills the dif
ferent departments for postage,
he said.
• “Last year the out of campus
mail bill was close to a million
dollars,” Stanislaw said.
The service sends out about
10,000 pieces of mail a day, he
said. Stanislaw said that they do a
lot of little things too.
“We distribute memos for
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courses,” he said, “we also help
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tion distribute The Texas
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The service is state funded.
“The state pays for 80 percent
and organizations such as the
Texas Transport Institute and
the Texas Agriculture Exten-
tion Service who also use it pay
an annual fee for the rest,” he
said.
The mail service does have
some problems. One of their
largest problems Stanislaw said,
is keeping up with the changing
faculty and staff of the Univer
sity.
Constant construction causes
time schedule problems.
“We have aaded a new truck
this year to cut some of the
routes and save time,” he said.
Bennett Blake, supervisor for
thirteen years, said that the mail
service also does little things for
people. They help parents who
are looking for their childrens’
mail and direct them to the U.S.
Post Office.
The mail service offers every
service a regular post office
does, Stanislaw said. “We offer
registered mail, insured mail,
overnight mail, and lots of fore
ign mail,” he said.
Lilly Johnson, who is in
charge of incoming registered
mail, said all kinds of things
come through her office.
“Once we got a package of live
snakes,” she said. “I can always
tell when we get a new profesor,
because a lot of fetal pigs and
biology specimens come
through here instead of the pro
fessor getting them through a
parcel service. I just call tnem
and tell them to come get it,“she
said.
The mail service is working
on starting a new system, Stanis
law, said. The new system will
help reach all the departments
that have branched out into
separate offices, he said.
The departments are
assigned an additional zip code
number for their mail, he said.
This helps the workers sort the
mail faster. If there is a number
on it a letter without a depart
ment name will get to the right
person, Stanislaw said.
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Blake said that if all offices
and departments would use
their new numbers things would
go a lot faster.
Stanislaw is a graduate of
Texas A&M, and says he enjoys
working here. He began work
ing for the University Mail Ser
vice in 1972 in the work-study
program.
He said the service is here to
serve the University and anvone
who needs help or has a problem
should call.
University Mail Service workers sort tons of campus
Remote broadcasts attract
listeners’ attention, dollars
by Ann Santarelli
Battalion Reporter
Remote broadcasting, a live
radio broadcast from a store,
sale, or a special event, may seem
gimmicky but it does attract
attention and provide name rec
ognition for the advertiser.
And that’s exactly what the
radio station and the advertisers
want.
“It’s beneficial to both the
radio station and the advertis
ers. We’re pushing their pro
duct, services or location to our
audience, but it also gives the
radio station exposure,” said
Dave Barnett, president of
WTAW.
Remote broadcasts are com
mon in all markets large and
small, but they are especially
suited and popular in Bryan/
College Sution.
Because this is a small com
munity they are more afford
able than in a larger market.
Also the broadcast are aimed at
people out driving, in this area
people are usually within a 15
minute drive of any broadcast.
Remotes are often used to
advertise a grand opening or a
special sale. The advertiser
usually gives away freebies like
t-shirts or refreshments, fre
quently beer. So the broadcast
takes on a noisy, party like
atmosphere and the disc jockeys
encourage people to come on
out.
“Remotes are the best adver
tising dollar to be spent in this
area. They by far pay for them
selves. It doesn’t matter if it
turns people off they still re
member the name of the adver
tiser,” said Sally Adams a
KORA-KTAM disc jockey, who
frequently works remotes.
"A remote can be as good as
the advertiser wants it to be. We
can faring in traffic, but what
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there is their business. Very few
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ly get feedback for two weeks,”
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