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To: afraidfortherepublic
Even the slowest (and usually the newest) “data conversion operators” can identify about 750 addresses per hour, whereas more experienced employees generally average about 1,600 per hour. ... the center's quickest employee can decipher 1,869 images per hour.


Say what you will about the Postal Service, being able to identify and key in an address every 2 seconds, even if it is only the zip code, and to keep doing this for a long period, is quite impressive. I'd be interested to know the female/male ratio of the workers who can handle a repetitive job like this.

16 posted on 12/27/2015 3:48:49 PM PST by wideminded
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To: wideminded
I'd be interested to know the female/male ratio of the workers who can handle a repetitive job like this.

I did over 10 years on a Letter Sorting Machine (LSM.) We were doing 60 per minute for 8 hours, minus two 15 minutes breaks.

The ratio was pretty much even between male and female. Usually the females maintained a lower error rate.

Edits were daily for every operator. Fall below 95% and you'd go back to training. Few ever had that happen. Personally I kept a 99.8% for 7 straight years, then slowly started dropping. We did have a couple sisters who kept a 100% rate forever.

20 posted on 12/27/2015 4:04:18 PM PST by ASA Vet (930 SPX)
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