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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LSM, post: 229555, member: 5859&quot;]When I was first hired by the Postal Service over 30 years ago I started as a Letter Sorting Machine Operator or LSM operator for short. LSM operators where required to memorize up to 2000 streets and they allowed you 4 minutes per street of memory time. You had to remember the street and the mail man number that delivered to that street. Once you remembered all the streets you had to be able read the letter and key the mailman number on the LAM machine at a rate of 1 letter per second with an error rate of 98% for each hundred letters keyed or 2 errors per hundred. So if you could do the memorizing and keying they would assign you to the grave yard shift give you split days off and work you 12 hours a day, but if you couldn&#039;t memorize the streets or key fast enough they would fire you. The failure rate was over 90% for that job. Ah the good old days. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Lou[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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