[XEHRpa]

Newspaper route guys use them to denote what newspaper service you get, e.g., none, daily, weekend. etc.

[rawhide]

The guy down the street who has 2 green dots, a blue and a red, what does he get?

[ken5050]

The fact that MOST mailboxes have NO dots shows just how bad the newpaper business is. 20 years ago, eevn 10..nearly EVERY home in most suburbs got one paper, if not two..

I finally stopped the NY Times about 2002..because most mornings it wan't even delivered by the time I was leaving for the office..and I could read it pnline anyways

[ken5050]

The fact that MOST mailboxes have NO dots shows just how bad the newpaper business is. 20 years ago, eevn 10..nearly EVERY home in most suburbs got one paper, if not two..

I finally stopped the NY Times about 2002..because most mornings it wan't even delivered by the time I was leaving for the office..and I could read it pnline anyways

[Dilbert San Diego]

I delivered papers years ago. I don’t recall any such system used by me or my fellow paper carriers. We news carriers pretty much had our routes memorized. After a while, you could deliver your route without looking at a list of houses getting the paper.

Maybe nowadays, these news carriers are trained to look for a dot??? Maybe they have “dumbed down” the job of delivering papers so that these carriers don’t have to think???? Who knows???