European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday. April 13. 1987 the stars and St hips Pago 3 express mail from states starts today by by Kim ii Oster staff writer express Moi service from the Stales to Europe starts today giving service members and Luicir families in a viral overseas locations .1 faster mean of gel Ling packages from Home. Express mail service will he available from selected major cities in the Stales to Europe said copt. Wiliiam inc Ken of the . Army postal group Europe. All army express mail acceptance Points operating in Germany including Berlin and a few Apos at Allied forces Central Europe and shape Belgium will accept express mail from the slain Mackun said. All air Force Apos in Germany and England will acc Cpl express mail from the slates As will some Apos in Italy Greece and Spain an air Force postal official said. Expanding express mail from the Stales to army locations outside of Ger Many will be considered after evaluation of he initial service Mac can said. Express mail service first introduced to the military postal system in Europe in March i98o, guarantees delivery of a letter or a parcel weighing up to 70 pounds from an Apo to the destination or from a stateside destination to an Apo in two Days the Day of acceptance Al the Post office is considered Zero Day. The Cost of inc postage is refunded if in lakes longer but the person mailing the item must make the claim. The Gua Rantee is void if shipments arc delayed by customs. Certain destinations in alas a and Hawaii arc included in the two Day delivery guarantee. Packets weighing up to 2 pounds Cost $10.75, packets weighing 2 to 5 pounds Cost 112.85. The Price includes $500 Worth of insurance and packaging material for Enve Lopes and cardboard Bones for items up to 5 pounds. The army recently expanded its Europe to states mail service to include Berlin shape Belgium and Allied forces Central Europe in Holland Mac Jinn said. The air Force expanded its express mail service last week to include locations in Belgium the United kingdom Spain and the . Embassy in Rome. Boih tie Navy and air Force Hye expanded service to Athens Greece we Don t have any plans to expand service to Apos in Turkey or the Sinai Mackun said. Depot s key to excellence simply fix it before it Breaks by darv1, e. Cd fun Kals Mautern Bureau a Esau. Germany there s a simple Wii to Start a dynasty in the. Army maintenance kingdom. Putting it into words b another matter. If you be Only got 10 i Cria ifs and you be got work for 10 mechanics you can do in in several ways said col. George e. Frill commander of the Mac Sun army i pot. You can take your 10 mechanics and put Ihm to work fixing vehicles and they can spend eight to 10 hours a Day the sergeant can work pm tonight and work pm on saturday morning and you la still end up Wilh broken vehicles every week if you look one of those mechanics away and said look i m going to train you to do a specific Job. Vii keep those Dornn vehicles from breaking. Here s you Job Don t you Ever i l a vehicle out of Here that in i Safe to Operle. And when in comes Hack in tonight you make sure thai Driver docs everything to it he s required to before he gives in Back to the motor Pool. And far every one you cd through you re Gonna work on the weekend now that s one Way of motivating he said slopping to catch a Brcan. And All of a sudden instead of the nine mechanics who were left working Gottfried Kossmann foreground and Juergen Vogelgesang Check an engine. Cru Melv there s fewer vehicles Bro Ken. And now you us Vullo twit of pm mechanics to maintenance. And Jou Sunn training Drivers to per form Driver . I Foro Sou know ii you be got three devoted Loil. Rind will if a Sud Den you re nol working any overtimes or weekends and Only five of your mechanics arc repairing vehicles and live of Ihm arc maintaining he said. To make a Long Story Short. Inc key is to fix in before it Breaks. And that s the difference Between maintenance and repair frill said. And ibis philosophy is the differ ence Between being recognized As a one Lime Over achiever and a consistently High Quality operation. The Miessau army Depol has won the army chief of shafts award for maintenance excellence for the third consecutive year. Bui philosophy alone does t make i rec Lime winners. One of the reasons it happened is or. Burger Over there feel said pointing to the director for services. Alois e. Burger has been at Miessau for 35 years and has been director for services for eight years. His approach is not to be concerned with what inc other Guys Are doing but to took with in. I can l speak for other maintenance activities Burger said. I Don t know How they Are doing. I know Ulicy Don t operate on a second shift. And that s the key to our Success. The idea behind it is to fix the equipment repair the equipment. So what we cannot fix during daytime will be continued on the next Shin and will be ready for operation in the morn he said. This Alli Lude of inc Job s not done until it s completed has resulted in the depot s maintaining an equipment read i Ness Rale of 99 percent. The army has accepted for Europe 85 percent for this Type of an Organiza Tion frill said. This Means thai equipment Down Lime should rarely impede the flow of ammunition throughout Europe. The depot had a 95 percent Readi Ness rate inc first Lime in won the award in fiscal 1984 and 98 percent when in repealed inc next year. It s inc old saying thai Success Breeds Success frill said. Two bodies found under . Bridge wreckage Amsterdam . Joe Mir turd to. He added that heavy smirks were the mum cause of Fum Plains and no Wrallie jams had been re in i
