Dear Pierre, Thanks for sharing this with us. I particularly like the tidiness of your line:
> * You sell in both the USA and England. The fluid ounce is different there. > The liter isn't. I will probably use some similar to this in my own letters as you have been able to compact many ideas into so few words. Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://metricationmatters.com on 2005-11-27 18.44, Pierre Abbat at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's a letter I'm going to send to a company I just found and am going to > order some stuff from. I've written to the president and gotten no answer > yet, but that may just mean she's in the jungle. > > I noticed some discrepancies in the labeling of two products. X is labeled > 0.35 oz, 20 ml, but 20 ml is 0.68 fl oz. Y is labeled 4 oz, 60 ml, but 60 ml > is 2.03 fl oz. I suggest that you package all your products in round metric > quantities for the following reasons: > * You buy from people who either don't measure (the Pirahã don't even count, > some others count only to 5) or measure everything in metric. Packaging in > metric will eliminate unit mixups. > * You sell in both the USA and England. The fluid ounce is different there. > The liter isn't. > * Americans have been exposed to metric packages for thirty years, not > counting film and cigarettes. No one is going to bat an eyelash at a 500 ml > bottle of andiroba oil, any more than a 500 ml bottle of water or a 1 l > bottle of olive oil. > * Medicine doses are figured in milligrams per kilogram. It only makes sense > for them to be packaged in grams. > * Round metric packages will encourage children to think in metric. This will > help America regain our lead in science and engineering, which are done in > metric. > I look forward to trying X, which is a very intriguing product, and hope you > have fun and stay safe on your next trip to the jungle. > > Can you guess what the company is? ;) > > Pierre >
