European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. March 14,1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 or. Slue c Ham. Surrounded by � grow ing Mountain of mail losses another postal sack on the plur. Of Davol  to Campbell gels a grip on her mail sorting. Service is part parcel of mail unit s Mission by Dave Ziehl . Bureau Bedford. England Only half of the tuesday truck was unloaded but the upper Kyford bound pile of mail micks Ihal sol. Sieve Chase was building already i Imine ictus the fld acid Orange mail sack Slack was growing. And. In a few Hurt Chase and about a do in other air Force mail handlers will have Ihal pile of Post Al inc Oxfordshire hau1 some 40 Miles away. Tucked inns a  find crowded Industrial Park on the outskirts of Hilford in the heart of England is a sleepy Little mail Slot thai sucks in and spits out the bulk of Bills boxes letters and leaflets bound for bases in the United kingdom. 11 is the Hub of the air Force mail operation and the 702ith air postal so s England det 5 last year some 22 million ions of mail passed Down a Blue conveyor Bell and was sorted into the Yalu separating inc Raf Mildenhall love letters and greetings from Raf Fairford s dear  mail docs not spend a lot of Lime in what is officially known at the Chicksands area mail terminal. A hot hours usually out on the warehouse floor a half Doit Sorters Check tags putting each bag in in respective cubicle. There seems to be an irony in it a because in a few hours those very bags will be heading out the door icy jus came in. Bui it s pan and parcel of inc Mission. The air Force mail handlers Roll up their sleeves every Day at 3 . La s the same every work Day. The mail bound for any of the 67,000 customers they serve hither and Yon comes in and goes right Back out. When inv Dollar is weak says chief master sir Dave Fletcher the workload goo up. Fletcher inc terminal Boss said that when Christmas comes All hell Breaks Loose. Fletcher said his workers have a monotonous Job and icy Don t gel paid enough. Back in the slates these e-2e, e-3s and e-4s could be pulling Almass Jan hour for the same Job and would probably have More help Fletcher said. There Are Days when his people go Home with aching backs. It s part of inc Job he said. Not much can be done to change a 50-Pound bag into anything else. And there arc not too Many ways to hoist that same bag on and off trucks and conveyor belts out Side of Good old fashioned muscle. Senior airman Ray Magby chucks the Pound bags and boxes onto the conveyor Bell piece by piece emptying the Giam Box on wheels that has been backed up to the warehouse door. Magby has it Lucky today. Some airlines Don t Fly on tuesday so the Load is lighter than usual. He pays for lie Light Days on other Days Hen All the planes Fly. Platform supervisor sgt. Rick Banks said Mon Days sundays and fridays arc very special  it s just kind of routine Chase said As Itu sorted through a handful of letters. Not a lot changes from Day to Day he said. It All looks the same to him. You just re member the heavy ones at  Fletcher said his people at Heathrow Gal Wick and Bedford will gel the mail that came in the Day s flights out to Etc Post offices that evening so clerks at the bases cart pcs Lac those cards and alters in their boxes by morning. Theoretically mail put in a Blue Mailbox in new York on a monday can be in any one of the 14 England Post office boxes tuesday morning. It does t always happen that Way. But to can if the timing is right. Louisiana Purchase documents disa Amsterdam Netherlands a Thomas Jefferson s opening bid on the Louisiana Purchase Nas just 52.50  mile according to a document found in Amsterdam that authored negotiations on the big Gesu act ii s. Bud buy. Toe set of instructions which bean the signatures of three ton Culive . Presi dents surfaced recently along with a Batch of other documents dealing with a dutch Bank s role in the Mammoth land Purchase the documents covering the Yean in 1820, were in the file of  Hope and co., and were  during lost month s periodic  of the dutch a Pius s cupid Poi archives Accord ing to rcsunthd4fn Blom. The in document authorized the american representatives in Paris to buy the Louisiana territories from Napoleon for 2 million Blum told the associated press Friday. Lfi6. Traces of several visible although i lives have jco., no Mecs and Hope i chives. Blum Sai to the do Cumens s. Hope and a prove in the dutch Capi since if is asked by american a care James Monroe and Robert Liv on to raise the Money needed for the _ Wisiana Purchase a Deal that ultimately doubled the sic of the fledgling american nation. The l2-by-16-Inch document dated feb. 3s. 1s03, bears he signatures of president Jefferson his Secretary of state and us Eccl or James Madison and Monroe who would succeed Madison As president in Monroe and Livingston then the . Ambassador to Paris failed id secure the 827.000-Squarc-Milc territory for inc allowed sum the Deal they finally con 1 with emperor Napoleon t was still the Price be Toj Stato eventually paid after it  by a Hope and co. Bond issues Alii Mil lion for an area of Fertile i stretching from the Gull of Mexico to. Canadian Border and from the Mississippi to the Rocky mountains. The Bank s Louisiana Purchase documents cover the preliminary negotiations the Purchase and the Deal s financial of ath. They reflect Amsterdam s Domi Nant role in International finance from inc 17lh to 19lh centuries even Aller the dutch lost their seafaring prowess to inc British the Netherlands played a considerable financial role world wide Blom noted. In inc late i Isth Century dutch Bankers financed some 40 percent of he a Riligh National debt while France owed the dutch inc equivalent of 112 million at that time a huge sum even before the Louisiana gambit the Van uncut had boric mid heavily in glands one of Fth first countries to  the new nation in 1782. In la Calm a 12 years loan total ing $14.3 million  to the us. Government by dutch ban