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Me: Almost done with Christmas cards.
Ruriko: Patrick wrote (small number) this year.
Ruriko’s mother: Your husband is adorable. (She’s long-since written several hundred New Years cards, in the traditional manner here.)
Part of me doesn’t love the social arms race that is New Years cards but I can appreciate complex operational processes done well and the fact that every year Japan handwrites about 2 billion cards and then delivers them in a 3 day window impresses me.
That’s a messages-per-second number which is close to the TPS of a Visa, worldwide, *delivered by hand, on paper*. The planning meeting for it must be epic.
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