PEDOMETERS FOR POSTMEN
Complaints of delay in the delivery of letters in. Budapest have resulted in a decision to measure the present postmen’s rounds by pedometers. The postmen object that their rounds are too long, some being obliged to climb 190 flights of steps. In addition to this, a postman delivering a registered letter must see the person _ to whom the letter is addressed, and in the absence of the addressee he is often obliged to return to the same house two or three times.
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Evening Star, Issue 22572, 13 February 1937, Page 7
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85PEDOMETERS FOR POSTMEN Evening Star, Issue 22572, 13 February 1937, Page 7
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