Amtrak conductors have been getting schooled on how to use iPhones to scan passenger tickets on select routes since November -- forcing hole punches to collect dust on a lonely shelf at the station.

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For example, if your business involves putting together packets of information for clients, maybe you have one station specifically for printing, and another that has all the hole punches, staplers, folders, and other assembly materials, and still a third station for preparing outgoing mail.

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And in the process give the reviewer, who is probably ignored by his peers when he punches into work each morning, and by the general public who may not know his name from a hole in the wall, Brad Pitt or Beyonce-level recognition.

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