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[lovingboth]

It's meant to put into perspective how much money GW Bush is asking to spend on Iraq...

But my first reaction was 'gosh, boxes of copier paper in the US must have 72/3 = twenty four reams inside, not five as in the UK. How does anyone lift them?'

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[hieroglyphe.livejournal.com]

I think american paper is a different size to our lovely british standard A4 so maybe their reams are a different size (ie smaller) to ours? Or maybe they use forklift trucks to move them everywhere?

It still amuses me that we spend more per annum on photocopying paper in our office than on my pay... And the fact that we changed contracted suppliers for cost etc when the new ones cost more, have a shitty nightmare catalogue, take longer to deliver and have less products available. (Will shut up before I continue to rant inanely about procurement issues...)