One problem is that many people have the postal scales they bought at their local post office, which weigh in pounds and ounces (to one decimal place) and don't apparently have a means to change them to grams. It's probably not a major problem. However, because of that, the USPS Web site would, for at least a year or two, have to provide the the amount in pounds and ounces parenthetically wherever it shows rate information. Many conversions are, for similar reasons, not easy. The relief comes some time after the conversion. It's worth doing, though -- and others (e.g., Canada) have proved it can be done effectively. Bill _____
Bill Potts W <http://wfpconsulting.com/> FP Consulting Roseville, CA <http://metric1.org/> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Al Lawrence Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:28 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:44002] RE: postage in grams Getting the post office to go metric will be difficult because of all the usual problems with public resistance, but to start with, it seems like they could do all international mail in grams and kilos. International mail has different rate structures anyway, and since it's international mail metric would not seem out of place to most people. Alan Lawrence _____ HotmailR is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. Find out more. <http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_70faster_032009>
