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Show Not Easy to Calculate Cost of Writing Letter Just what it costs to write a lettel is not known to nine out of ten bus:-' ness men. If they ever think of It they figure the postage and the cost of the stationery and let it go at that. Really the postage is an insignificant item in the cost of a letter. An efficiency expert recently Inquired In-quired of rS concerns about the cost of their letters and it was learned that only 14 had any definite idea on the subject. The average cost as figured fig-ured by these fourteen firms was between be-tween 35 and -to cents. With an average aver-age salary of $45 a week for the dictator dic-tator and ?'.?) for the stenographer who turns out 30 letters a day and with the dictator using six minutes per letter the cost was 3.". OS and 3(1.07 cents per missive, according to the cost of the stationery. When the boss worth $10,000 or S20.000 a year does the dictating and uses a $60 per week secretary the letter will cost close to $1. Some letters let-ters written by hand cost thousands and thousands of dollars. Love notes, for instance, have had a cost that depends on the minds of the jurors hearing the damage suit. Bob Holland Hol-land in the Miami Herald. |