Sometimes I don't understand why my mind works this way.

[caramida]

In the US, the standard business-size envelope is big enough to fit several sheets of 8.5" x 11" paper, with room to spare. It's called a Number 10 envelope. There also exists a Number 9 envelope, whose sole purpose it seems, is to be small enough to fit inside a Number 10 envelope, and yet still be big enough to hold an 8.5" x 11" piece of paper (or a check!). And the Number 11? It is intended to be big enough that you can fit your Number 10s inside.

I don't know why this amuses me, but it does.

Comments

[knaveofhearts.livejournal.com]

If you like that, then this will blow your mind.

http://www.prepressure.com/library/papersizes.htm

[sylphslider.livejournal.com]

BWAH!

"As far as I know, a lot of businesses in the US still rely on the paper sizes below that come with nice names but no apparent logic behind them. In England a similar system was used but they have already seen the light and switched to the A-sizes."

[steluch.livejournal.com]

wow, it would have been really useful for me to have looked that up on the interweb way back once upon a time when i sat down with the autocad plot settings/menu and figured out for myself what all those paper sizes where/are...i rounded though...

[eriktdahl.livejournal.com]

This envelope goes up to 11!