#00256/Greeting Card (6.25" x 4.5") - Blank

Before I started college, I worked at Underwriters Labs, where they do all the safety testing that results in the "UL-listed" safety label.  Since computers couldn't really be used to store anything yet, every draft of every report had to be filed -- an unbelievable amount of paper, but probably no different from a zillion other companies.  I was a file clerk.  I would go around to all the engineers' cubicles with a cart, and they would throw in their zillions of report iterations.  Then I would go back to this enormous file room, where me and the other sad sacks would sort all the reports into these huge stacks of paper.  Then we'd make drill holes in the stacks so that they could be bound with prongs and cardboard covers.  Then we'd stick the stacks in a stack of stacks for future stacking among the stacks.  Anyway, my point is that before you drilled holes in these piles of paper (they were really big piles, like 4 or 5 inches high), you would have to make sure the pile was nice and tidy.  Rather than spending all of our time tamp, tamp, tamping, UL actually had a tamping machine.  You'd stick the pile in this motorized bracket doohickey, then push a button and the bracket would shake and shimmy and the bracket would get tighter and tighter until you had this perfect stack of paper.  I've wondered since then what company went out of business when no one needed tamping machines anymore?  And where did all of those tamping machines go?