[FedCom] Re: USPS

[Chris Parris]

I think it's more than likely that they have moved to Nextel. While I don't
know that all of the USPS truck operations are moving that way (I still hear
a LOT of postal service operations on the VHF or UHF land mobile bands in
other areas), the Postal Service truck operations in Portland have definitly
moved. We'll have to see if we can spot a yellow phone/radio kind of thing
on one of the driver's belts. ;-)

- Chris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rod jones" <rj_721 at yahoo.com>
To: "Discussion of Federal Government Communications"
<fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [FedCom] Re: USPS


> Can you say iDen?
>
> Starting to look like, and smell like a NexTel (or is that Sprint now).
>
> Rod
> Atlanta
>
> --- KD7JYK <kd7jyk at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > I can't say for certain, I don't even recall the list, but a few years
ago
> > someone was mentioning talking to a postal worker and mentioned they had
> > switched to some sort of phone or walktie-talkie-data device.  They said
> > some of the trucks still had radios in them, I want to say around 168
MHz or
> > so, but they weren't used, or if they were, only as a back-up.  I seem
to
> > recall the worker said he didn't recall the radios being used while he
was
> > there.  Your mentioning of UPSP and Nextel made me remember the thread.
> > Around here, well, in the big city 25 miles west, postal workers carry a
> > yellow cell-phone looking device on their belts.
> >
> > Kurt
> >
>
>
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