Dim bulbs involved in this mass mailing of light bulbs
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - January 8, 2008 Small-town post
offices in western Maryland were deluged with compact fluorescent
light bulbs during the peak holiday season. More than 200,000
customers of Allegheny Power were sent two-bulb packages of
energy-saving compact fluorescent lights. They were supposed to
arrive by late November. But the power company says a supplier
glitch delayed the shipment. Jay Jones, the customer service
supervisor at the post office in Hagerstown, says his people had to
individually scan more than 30,000 boxes of bulbs, and it took
extra trips to deliver them. Postal workers in another town had to
change all the addresses on the labels to box numbers. Utility
company spokesman Todd Meyers says Allegheny Power has learned some
valuable lessons from the light promotion.