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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 715876, member: 66&quot;]The mint has a computer system in place that can handle say 50,000 service requests per day and it handles the normal daily load with ease.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know how many lines they have coming in to it or how many simultanious requests it can handle.&nbsp; But two or three times a year they need, for a period of just a&nbsp; few hours, a system that can handle 50,000 service requests per HOUR.&nbsp; Does it make sense to rip out their current system which is working fine 99% of the time and spending a bundle of money to install a new system that can handle the .3% of the time extreme load but whose capacity will then sit mainly idle the rest of the time?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>they do it all the time, it&#039;s just that they usually ignore the results.&nbsp; But the Mint is one of the few bureaus that actually runs efficiently and makes money.&nbsp; They would probably pay attention to such an analysis and it would say that it doesn&#039;t make sense cost wise to fix the problem.&nbsp; Sure it gets jammed up a couple times a year, but the products still sell and eventually the jam up clears.&nbsp; Usually within just a few hours.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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