He sorts through my 35 items, passing judgment.
Both items passed easily and now await only the governor's signature.
One office I know is supposed to have around 26,000 items passing through it a day, when the real figure is more like 42,000.
Bank checks and other items pass through the New Jersey International and Bulk Mail Center in Jersey City, where the employee, Eloise Smith, sorted them into mail bags.
She wanted to thank him, she said, as the last items passed over the scanner: snail shells, truffle oil, aged balsamic vinegar, and, finally, Forbidden Rice.
He told the BBC: "We've had lots of unusual items pass through the doors over the years, but this is by far the weirdest".
Such were the show-and-tell items passed around recently at an unusual seminar in New Brunswick, where state and police officials told about 40 people who are in the business of dispensing alcohol how to spot a fake ID.
Careless letter writing costs British industry £6bn a year, according to the Plain English Campaign, and with 385m items passing through the Royal Mail, the producers of Basildon Bond paper believe that we ought to get it right.
Only one item in the test with unrelated distractors was underfit (1.44); the other items passed the criterion.
As items pass over the scanner, they are checked along with the card and even under the cart.
