Officials at postal swims?

In the wetsuit thread Kurt Dickson wrote: The rule on minimal officials at meets is interesting as I think you are supposed to have an official for postal swims I've never seen such a requirement. I thought the only requirement was that you have a person to record your 50 (yards) or 100 (meters) splits. Can someone elaborate/clarify/correct? Thx, Skip Montanaro You can cruise the rule book online. Look under publications in the home page tool bar. I skipped through it looking for postal events. Didn't find anything, but I might not be looking in the right place. Postal events don't seem to fall under the definitions of "meet" in the rule book. The requirements for each event are set by the organizers. The rules for the Jon Steiner Memorial Mile swim by TAM Masters are really simple, no officials required. www.pacificmasters.org/.../08tamow.pdf

In the wetsuit thread Kurt Dickson wrote: The rule on minimal officials at meets is interesting as I think you are supposed to have an official for postal swims I've never seen such a requirement. I thought the only requirement was that you have a person to record your 50 (yards) or 100 (meters) splits. Can someone elaborate/clarify/correct? Thx, Skip Montanaro You can cruise the rule book online. Look under publications in the home page tool bar. I skipped through it looking for postal events. Didn't find anything, but I might not be looking in the right place. Postal events don't seem to fall under the definitions of "meet" in the rule book. The requirements for each event are set by the organizers. The rules for the Jon Steiner Memorial Mile swim by TAM Masters are really simple, no officials required. www.pacificmasters.org/.../08tamow.pdf