From: Herrn Edward Mulindwa
Date: Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:34 AM
Subject: [Mwananchi] WITHOUT MAGIC, SANTA WOULD NEED 12 MILLION EMPLOYEES TO REACH EVERY KID
Without Magic, Santa Would Need 12 Million Employees
by Chana Joffe-Walt
There are 760 million Christian children in the world, according to the Pew Research Center. Suppose Santa delivers one gift to each child. What kind of delivery workforce would Santa need?
We couldn't get an interview with Santa. But we did get Paul Tronsor from FedEx and Mike Mangeot from UPS. They helped us go through the numbers.
Here are just a few of the positions Santa would need to fill to pull off Christmas. (Note: For the complete list, see the graphic at the bottom.)
* 46 international distribution centers, to allow Santa to reload as he crosses the globe. That means 400,000 workers for loading presents onto Santa's sleigh.
* 60,000 workers to develop optimized flight plans and communicate with the FAA, secure flyover rights, etc.
* 7,000 people monitoring demand and tweaking his route in real time.
* 100 meteorologists to make sure Santa doesn't fly into a blizzard.
* 40,000 people to help Santa clear customs.
To give you a sense of how big that team is, that's 40 times the number of employees at FedEx:
WHAT A FEDEX SANTA WOULD NEED
12 million members of staff including 100 border experts, 100 meteorologists and 7,000 route planners
46 International packing facilities where he could re-load his sleigh through the night
Each facility would be 5.2million square feet with 155 miles of conveyer belt and 9,000 packing staff
His sleigh would need to carry a weight of at least 760million pounds which would take 295 747 airplanes to carry
40,000 customs experts to help Santa navigate across the world's borders
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