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My office is in a building with a Cutler Mail Chute in active service with daily pickup service from the Postal Service. It just adds that extra bit of charact
by OldHand2018 6y ago
My office is in a building with a Cutler Mail Chute in active service with daily pickup service from the Postal Service.
It just adds that extra bit of character to an old building, especially with the floor-to-ceiling glass. Every so often, you'll see that flash of white out of the corner of your eye as an envelope from an upper floor falls past you.
They do get clogged, and someone has to notice and let the building management know. This can be a problem if the blockage is on an unoccupied floor - the mail needs to pile up until it is visible on a floor with a tenant!
- alexpotato 6y agoJust like multi hop pub sub messaging systems! If a middle host is dropping messages and there is no monitoring, you don't find out till much later.
- OldHand2018 6y agoWell in this case they are in an unlimited size buffer. Once the blockage is cleared, all messages are delivered at once! I've seen the postal worker doing daily collections in the lobby and the container they use could probably hold the letter volume for a month or two without issue. Also, to be clear, my office has been there for nearly 15 years. In that time I've known of 4 or 5 blockages. It's actually very reliable.