William Sheppard on sat 9 apr 05
With all this discussion about pots breaking in shipment AND how the
post office wants the bees picked up ASAP, the simple solution to get your
ceramic wares delivered in good shape is to place a large lable
saying "BEES" on a couple of the box's sides. I bet they don't throw "bee
boxes" around very much. Sure would save a lot of double boxes, peanuts,
newsprint, and foam.
William A. Sheppard
http://www.patyoungceramicarts.com
Chris Leake on sat 9 apr 05
I like that idea! It could also become the secret symbol of a clayart potter.
-----Original Message-----
From: William Sheppard
Sent: Apr 8, 2005 11:44 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: "BEES" as a packing lable for ceramics
With all this discussion about pots breaking in shipment AND how the
post office wants the bees picked up ASAP, the simple solution to get your
ceramic wares delivered in good shape is to place a large lable
saying "BEES" on a couple of the box's sides. I bet they don't throw "bee
boxes" around very much. Sure would save a lot of double boxes, peanuts,
newsprint, and foam.
William A. Sheppard
http://www.patyoungceramicarts.com
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pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on sat 9 apr 05
Hi Chris, William, Kelly, Mel, all...
\we may recall, that historically, Bees, or the use of an
image of a stylized mound Hive with a few hovering Bees
around it, conveyed the idea of Industriousness,
productivity, resources, co-operation, and benovelence,
combined.
It was considered for the mascot-symbol of the original
United States, even as was the Rattlesnake, ( which was
used) for other reasons, and the Wild Turkey, for other
reasons yet. While, as we know, the Eagle won out, I suppose
among other things, for it's taloned feets who could hold
both arrows and Olive branches, respectively.
But somehow, I think, the Beehive would have been the more
appropriate and ideal symbol, for what had been...the
aspires of the day.
Phil
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Leake"
> I like that idea! It could also become the secret symbol
of a clayart potter.
Richard Aerni on mon 11 apr 05
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 02:44:17 -0400, William Sheppard
wrote:
>With all this discussion about pots breaking in shipment AND how the
>post office wants the bees picked up ASAP, the simple solution to get your
>ceramic wares delivered in good shape is to place a large lable
>saying "BEES" on a couple of the box's sides. I bet they don't throw "bee
>boxes" around very much. Sure would save a lot of double boxes, peanuts,
>newsprint, and foam.
There aren't "bee boxes"...there are actual bee shipping containers, where
the hive is enclosed in a wooden box with air space for breathing (at least
that's how it was done when I worked at the post office). You would never
mistake any other type of parcel for a shipment of bees. There were always
many bees that had escaped from the hive during shipment which would be
flying around the hive, not wanting to be separated from it. This could get
awfully distracting when you're trying to unload the truck and process the
bees. And, the bees would always come during one short period of the year,
and there would be many, many of the hives on a truck at a time. A bad job
to have in the Post Office was to the the receiver of a truck load of bees
after a long trip. Opening those doors and receiving the thousands of angry
bees could be a real experience...
Richard Aerni
Back from Worcester Ma pottery sale, where things went very well this year.
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