Are Postal Workers' Eyes Better Than Others?"
DarqueKnight
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During the course of my leisure time reading, I ran across this amusing little gem of modern advertising in the August 11, 1947 issue of Life Magazine. The American Optical Company asked:
Then they answered:
An excerpt from the ad is show below. The full ad is attached to the bottom of this post. Right click on the thumbnail to open the full sized picture in a new browser window (or new tab).
The ad was amusing because I wondered if, in the 1940's, questions were constantly being raised about the supposed "golden eyes" of postal workers.:p
Such good advertising.
Heyyyyy...you got me to thinking. I wonder if, similar to eyesight, other human senses can be trained to have a higher level of sensitivity and efficiency?
As in ears? No. I don't think so. Postal workers can train their eyes. Wine tasters can train their tongues. Blind people can train their fingertips. Perfume testers can train their noses. Ears however, cannot be trained. All that talk about audiophiles having trained ears is delusional fantasy, placebo effect, voodoo and wishful thinking.~DK
"Are Postal Workers' Eyes Better Than Others?"
Then they answered:
"NO! But the men who sort and deliver the mail learn through experience to read names
and addresses much faster than the average person. The skill of these workers in rapid
reading is one of the reasons why the United States Post Office gives us the speediest,
most efficient mail service in the world. Postal employees owe their seeing ability not
to "better eyes", but to their visual training and experience."
and addresses much faster than the average person. The skill of these workers in rapid
reading is one of the reasons why the United States Post Office gives us the speediest,
most efficient mail service in the world. Postal employees owe their seeing ability not
to "better eyes", but to their visual training and experience."
An excerpt from the ad is show below. The full ad is attached to the bottom of this post. Right click on the thumbnail to open the full sized picture in a new browser window (or new tab).
The ad was amusing because I wondered if, in the 1940's, questions were constantly being raised about the supposed "golden eyes" of postal workers.:p
Such good advertising.
Heyyyyy...you got me to thinking. I wonder if, similar to eyesight, other human senses can be trained to have a higher level of sensitivity and efficiency?As in ears? No. I don't think so. Postal workers can train their eyes. Wine tasters can train their tongues. Blind people can train their fingertips. Perfume testers can train their noses. Ears however, cannot be trained. All that talk about audiophiles having trained ears is delusional fantasy, placebo effect, voodoo and wishful thinking.~DK
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DarqueKnight wrote: »Ears however, cannot be trained.
DK- This is interesting to me. Why the other sense can be trained except hearing? Where did you get this information? Ern Dog -
DK- This is interesting to me. Why the other sense can be trained except hearing? Where did you get this information? Ern Dog
ED,
This was meant jokingly, sarcastically, facetiously.:)Proud and loyal citizen of the Digital Domain and Solid State Country! -
This is a great post DK. This thread made me laugh a little. You have to have pretty good eye sight to read the original answer on the magazine clipping though.;) Maybe I should become a postal worker. Although, I cannot read addresses that fast, so maybe not.:)
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Raife, great post!Political Correctness'.........defined
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Excellent post!DKG999
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*I* am somewhat skeptical that US postal worker's eyes really are as "efficient" as they claim them to be. I mean, these guys are claiming to be the best in the world. Therefore, I propose the following test:
I want to take ten of the US Postal Service's BEST mail sorters to China and have them sort mail in a Chinese post office for three hours one morning. That afternoon, we will travel to Brazil and repeat the the test. Next, we will go to London, then Denmark, then Egypt, then Kenya, then Australia, then Saudi Arabia, then Japan, then Canada. If the US postal worker's mail sorting speed and efficiency holds up...then I will believe all these wild claims about the superior, "best in the world" mail sorting speed and efficiency of US postal workers.
Sorting mail is only about matching symbols on pieces of mail to symbols on mail bins...right? An expert symbol matcher in the US should still be able to match symbols in another country or language...right?
All travel and lodging expenses will be paid by *me*.
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Great thread Ray!
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Just ask any blind man about senses.;)Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
