Those tight covers!!

Thanks to the team from Grey District Library who have raised an issue that challenged me for some time until I asked someone else. How to remove those jolly orange sleeves on the Futura modems without destroying the sleeves in the process?

“The newest modem boxes have very tight orange covers, which take two staff members to remove. One to hold the cover and one to pull the box out, and even then, it’s still not easy. We have had staff members accidentally rip the modem box when trying to get it out, and we have had a staff member have to cut the cover off because there weren’t any other staff members available to help remove the cover, and the patron they were signing up was elderly, so they couldn’t help.”

Well, there is a solution. You might have met Georgia and Tori, (or G&T as we know them, not to be confused with the tonic version!). They spend some hours every weekend keeping the engine room of Jump modem distribution ticking over. You might have met them at our Jump annual stocktake time, when they are making sure our records align with your reality.

Anyway, I digress. I asked them to explain how they get the sleeves off the Futura modems and in less time than it is taking me to write this post, they had produced a YouTube clip. Starring Georgia, with Tori recording on her smartphone.

I look forward to seeing a video clip from the Grey District Library about how this has transformed their Jump lives!

PS. Maybe I could use more G&T media* to reduce my sometimes verbose posts!

*Not to be confused of course with G&T Productions, a New Zealand theatre production company that specialises in bringing large-scale international musical theatre productions to audiences across Aotearoa.