----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Is anyone else driven to distraction when trying to extricate DMA depository maps from their mailing tubes? It always provides us with our daily exercise --wrestling with the tubes, one person holding, the other person trying to twist the maps out. We usually have to resort to pulling the tube apart (no easy task. My clerk has just spent 20 minutes trying to cut apart a tube to free two maps.) Can someone describe how these items are packed for mailing? Surely it is done by some infernal machine. Has anyone come up with any nifty means whereby these tubes can be opened easily--without shedding blood? Sue Haffner Map Library, CSU Fresno