Marjorie-
Our mail has also been somewhat light during the past two weeks.  It seems
to me that it is just an end of the summer thing.  If my memory serves me
correctly, it's usually slow about this time of year.  Our situation may
be different here in Alaska as we often get our 4th class mail 1-2 weeks
later than most of the country.  I haven't heard about any slowdown of 4th
class mail at the post office, but that wouldn't surprise me either with
the UPS strike.  Good luck on getting your mail!

Freya Anderson                          anfna@uaa.alaska.edu
Serials Clerk                           phone:(907)786-4627
University of Alaska Anchorage          fax:  (907)786-6050
Consortium Library

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On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Marjorie Wilhite wrote:

> Our serials acquisitions mail seems to be very sparse during the past week.
>  I checked with our local post office and they do not believe shipments of
> journals are being held back to allow staff to handle other kinds of
> packages being shipped by US mail because of the UPS strike.
>
> Does anyone have an official word to the contrary on this?
>
> Marjorie Wilhite
> Serials Acquisitions, University of Iowa Libraries
> <marjorie-wilhite@UIOWA.EDU>