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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1985)
Williamson County Students Sunday, October 13, 2:00 p.m. 510 Rudder Informal gathering to hear Dr. Jack Reynold’s of the Mentors Program speak. Homemade refreshments and motherly love provided by Williamson County Mother’s Club. Please come, it’ll do your momma proud. RSVP Kent Snead 779-7566 or Kim Woerner 764-0434 ALPHA TALI o JOE KING CARRASCO Y LAS NUEVAS CORONAS • 7:30p.m. Brazos County Pavillion 6.00 pre sale 700 at door also featuring •fr' The Executives o Free Beer • Tickets available in MSC Box Office ifY PRICE S 4 7 0.00 B Y A I R $340.00 BY BUS SAfO IV SKJ CL U8 'SK! THE SUMMIT T rip Deposits due by October 14 2nd floor Pavillion CHRISTMAS 1986 JANUARY 11-17 (6 DAYS OF SKIING) Breckenridge Keystone Copper Mountain A-Basin Includes: Transportation, Lift Tickets, Condominium, Parties, etc. I do my best thinkin’ on the bus. That’s how come I don’t drive. You don’t even know how to drive. I don’t want to know. I don’t want to learn, see. The more you drive the less intelligent you are. fri-sat oct. 11,12 A Universal Picture <£>1984 Universal City Studios, Inc. RUDD€R THeniRe *Fir/t IO curtomerr get moniGHT SI'S k AGGII INI THEY ONLY MET ONCE BUT IT CHANGED THEIR LIVES FOREVER 730& 9:45 # THCflTRC $2.00 THE R E/VKFAST CLUB A UNIVERSAL PICTURE & come Tee the cortoon rhortT! Page 4/The Battalion/Friday, October, 11,1985 State and Local \larf ’yo Campus mail A&M service handles millions of letters eachyt. VllTB ppRr e youR < oUCL' \ VENT 1 ■CX TO By MOLLY PEPPER AV/nu in While not as large as the iederal postal set vice, Texas A&M s Tniver- siiv Mail Service handles approxi- mateh seven million pietes ol mail a vear. the third largest volume na t ion wide, according to a sm v ev. 1 lie Tniversitv Postal Seivite le ceives mail Ironi the I S. i’ost ()like for distribution to the difieient d«' partments on campus. Standard deliverv and pi< k up is piovifled to all departments twice a d.iv and to some selet led adtmnisti a tive depai linents tin ee times a dav 1 he sv stem has nine mail cat t iers w ho tegin t licit two pick tip and dc* liv erv t uns iit S a.m and I pm Mail collet led ironi dcpailmeni oil ices is hrought hack to die office sorted and sent om on die nexl rim. so (here is nevei more ihan a one dav wait lor mail delivered (loin one department lo another. I he svstem functions ellicientlv, savs manager John Stanislaw. lie sav s the workei s are dedicated to the serv ice thev re prov iding and nuclei - stand the importante of it. “We’re good at getting om c us- tomers the liest service foi the liest price,” Stanislaw says. Because about three of the nine mail carriers are students, the svstem lias a complete work forte tor the heavv mail deliverv of the fall and spring semesters and a diminished one during slow tinies sue h as the summer and Christmas break. I bis makes employment In the service cost efficient, Stanislaw savs. I lie service has sev eral people who are well versed in postal dis counts, which saves monev for the service and those who use it. he savs. For instance, most departments and student organizations are al lowed to use non-profit hulk rales to send large mail outs. The service has been compuie- i i/ed with state-of-the-ai t equip ment which allows it to run as rffi- cientlv as possible, Stanislaw savs. For instance, he savs thev have a mailing machine which cuts down on time and a computerized sc ale w hi< h saves money In classifying the exact amount of postage needed. Flie service is beginning a new svstem called First ( lass Pre-Sort w hie h Stanislaw sav s probahlv w ill Ik 1 the linal frontier in mailing cfli- ciency. He savs the system will be starting in die nexl few weeks and could save the Tniversitv thousands of dollars. I lie new svstem will allow letteis to be sent loi 18 cents instead of 22 because the Tniversitv svstem will sort and send the letters instead of sending them to tlie l .8 Post ()f f ici to be sorted and sent Stanislaw savs that the \&M postal service always looks good in Mary Jane Garcia, A&M mail service leader, usescompuitii mail-processing equipment to stamp mail at the Universinltj Service. th •Ifi- and otliet i^utups sc ud l.u ge in,ul outs efficientv surveys. He adc one ol the main reasons it ' c ient is Ik*c ause it’s l.u ge. "We re big. he said, "hut it's no | he univerfitv good lo Ik? big unless v on i r good mnsih h\ the st.ite butilfl Since the postal ieorgatiization m alxuit if) percent u( it the U.MiOs. all new univetsities have limdecl In auxiliary« l»ec*n rec|uired to have thru own the University,sudustlit postal svstems, levs utmeisities still and the ff<>ll couiscl have the U.S. Postal St i vice deliv eiingtheir mail. , )m problem witJn \&M has a large! volume ol m ul iIi.h enieiing and leaving . nnpus dm text t IctWi-<romfrift most umvei sines U i .ms, I die . me s with r.he TM flfl cultmal and eugineeriuu xpen iIh iu sinec irislisteilalatieH: ! mem stations and e xtension se i v i< < s. |„ , s ,, s p,, < a nipusZIPa(■ T nor .win • 111. - Battalion Classified 845-2611 10th Anniversary 5al u 1 s B *'■ § - & jf ,03 cL OiaiEK>iic! \ f Pendant with 14 k Gold Chain $ $ 19 K . / 14 k Gold and Diamond fopSfojh Necklaces with 14 k Chains $ 29 95 - $ 39 95 - $ 49 95 Gold CU 60% I .lOct. tw. Diamond Earrings 0n,i ' Z - egooo Pearl Earrings Smm-na** 6mm-*21’ s Wail 301 Sterling Silver .ffSgk Entire Stock 60% off 14k Gold 7 mm Ball Earrings /“X Very Low 5^500 .25 ct. tw. DiamJ Earrings I SupeiVi ALL OTHER MERCHANDISE 1 40%-50% off 1 ^The Jewelry £toi£ Layaway Now for Christinas 3601 E. 29th St. Brookwood Square (2 Blocks South of Bryan High School)