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My wife has had to take a part time job at the post office selling nengajo. She stands outside the station allll day in the cold next to a heater shivering and hungry. She’s helping the ward sell some 700,000 nengajo. That’s right; 700,000! Let’s put this into perspective. There are 47 prefectures, we live in Hyogo which has 29 cities; Kobe being our city. Kobe is split into 9 wards, the others are too small to split into wards. So if there are 9 wards selling at least 700,000 cards each then that would come out toooooo 6.3 million cards FOR KOBE. You can take it from here. Oh. Tomoko is sending out 75 cards this year (below the average of around 100). Which means she will receive 75 back. That’s 150 for one person. Hey, if the average is 200 per person send/receive then that would come out to….let’s see…128 million is the population tiiiiiimes. GOT IT! 25.6 billion nengajo. Something’s screwy here. Here are the stats for America: By the numbers - The post office’s busiest day Estimated number of holiday cards exchanged in the United States this year. Christmas cards account for 99 percent of the total; the remainder celebrate Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. 2 billion The average number of holiday cards sent by the average American household. 26 SOURCES: U.S. Postal Service; Greeting Card Association PS: Our nengajo sucked this year so I didn’t scan it. Instead I randomly took one from Tomoko’s pile from last year. Hope they don’t mind me putting their mugs on the Internet. LOL. You must be logged in to post a comment. |
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