If there is one country where the copiers are most widely used, it gotta be India. 2.5 weeks into my visit, I have xerox-ed approximately 300 pages of documents, around 20 pages per day :-).
Every office you visit, every request you make typically tends to be associated with a "request to get documents xerox-ed". Sometimes, the request makes sense, but more often than not, you are left wondering what the heck the xerox is for. For example, I had to provide some documents for custom-clearance, one of the things I needed to xerox was *all* pages of my passport, including the blank pages. Now, you are left wondering why would anyone need blank pages :-). If you add the 80 pages of my passport, at 2 pages per side, that is a whopping 40 pages of document, which I'm fairly certain no one would ever look at.
Cost-wise, each page costs you one rupee, but it just makes sense, most of the time.
I guess there-in lies a business opportunity, if there is a way to digitally and securely transfer documents, that is going to be a killer app.
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