Employee training and public awareness programs are credited for the reduction. FedEx recently lost or damaged 695 SAT and 75 Advanced Placement Exams that were completed and en route to Princeton, NJ for scoring. Some students whose tests were lost were so distraught that they broke down crying. Personally, I predict an increase in FedEx delivery people being attacked by angry teens. USPS should consider themselves lucky.
Consumers feed on a constant supply of new technology using ICs.
New products are being created at a frenetic pace, but some people wonder if our productivity has peaked. The reason productivity has come into question is that the IC design process remains labor intensive. Companies need to design products in months, not years, to stay competitive. IC design has not been keeping up with demand. Electronic Design Automation, or EDA, had driven IC design productivity since the 1960's.