Ellen Wallace
Politics ::
Each week several odd bits of news drift out of press offices, and this is one of my favourites from Bern this week: the federal binder celebrates 100 years. These unattractive, speckled and gray binders are filled each year with an extraordinary amount of paper detail about life in Switzerland – 12 million (!!!) are manufactured every year in Bruegg (20 Minutes, Fre). The Swissair saga required more than 4,000 binders, possibly more than an airplane would hold.
Posted by :: Ellen Wallace on 19 September 2008 at 14:39 | permalink
GenevaLunch, 19 September 2008.
Filed under: Politics
Tags: data storage, paper, Swiss government
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