Occasionally, when I am unable to repress the thought, I wonder about what people in the workforce did before they had our modern technology. And I don't just mean word processors. We have email and telephone, not to mention the (mostly) reliable postal service. We can draft documents, circulate them to three different people for review, have a telephone conference, make further revisions, circulate again, correct a few typos, insert the correct amount, and finally send the document out for final execution (except even there we can often accept pdfs of signatured pages).
How did people do all this paperwork before? I wonder if people made fewer mistakes or if they just didn't correct as many typos. I wonder if the average time to complete and file a deed was more like six months instead of a week. If you mailed a document for someone to review, how long would you wait to hear back from them? Would you send another letter and wait two more weeks if you didn't?
I wonder.
4 comments:
I wonder about this too, when I watch old movies and see people sitting at office desks writing.
we still mail documents to some of the old clients ... they dont like computers
i, too, wonder about this, esp. in regard to faxing. wow.
i think they all worked across the street from each other, so they just walked the boardwalk on main and were back with revisions in 5 minutes ;-)
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