The Post Office Research Station

Office of Scale Research

Clinical research and the office-based physician.

Editorial An untapped data resource may soon be practical and favorable if unified research efforts within the profession succeed. One of the greatest challenges of current medical research has been to accurately assess the actual practice environment. Most office-based physicians are too busy to participate in research because they lack adequate time for planning, development, and execution. A...

Kinematic analysis of post office employees' workstations.

This study analyzed a post office clerk's tasks, comparing two workstation models. The clerk was facing the client in one, and seated at 45 degrees to the counter in the other. We analyzed the most frequent tasks and those presenting the most critical points: 1) payment of a postal order; 2) accepting a registered letter, breaking them down into subtasks. We used an optoelectronic system for ki...

The Japanese Post Office in Theoretical and Comparative Perspective

The post office is properly a mercantile project. The government advances the expense of establishing the different offices, and of buying or hiring the necessary horses or carriages, and is repaid with a large profit by the duties upon what is carried. It is perhaps the only mercantile project which has been successfully managed by, I believe, every sort of government. The capital to be advanc...

Closest Pair and the Post Office Problem for Stochastic Points

Given a (master) set M of n points in d-dimensional Euclidean space, consider drawing a random subset that includes each point mi ∈ M with an independent probability pi. How difficult is it to compute elementary statistics about the closest pair of points in such a subset? For instance, what is the probability that the distance between the closest pair of points in the random subset is no more ...