Thursday, April 11, 2013
Measurement of postal importance
Do we still use and need the Post Office? A pretty good comparative indicator:
In 1937, as narrated in this episode of 'Can You Imagine', a Brooklyn postman got lazy and tossed several hundred pieces of mail over the course of several days. Customers complained loudly and the postman was caught quickly.
In 2010, a postman near Portland got lazy and tossed at least 35,000 pieces of mail over the course of a year before the Post Office caught him.
Looks like the 'Postal Importance Ratio' between 1937 and 2010 is about 100 to 1.
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