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A Royal Mail rubber band is a small formerly red elastic loop used by the postal delivery service in the United Kingdom. In the course of its work, the Royal Mail consumes nearly 1 billion rubber bands per annum to tie together bundles of letters at sorting offices. In the 2000s, complaints about Royal Mail rubber bands littering the streets of Britain have given rise to ongoing press interest in this minor cultural phenomenon. The bands ceased to be red in 2010, and are now standard elastic band brown. ==Volumetrics== In a response to a Freedom of Information Act request made by Steve Woods to the Royal Mail in December 2008, the company disclosed that it used the following numbers of rubber bands in each of the three years from 2005/6-2007/8:〔 *2005/06 - 753,480,000 *2006/07 - 825,750,000 *2007/08 - 871,695,000 *2009/10 - 760,000,000 According to the ''Daily Record'', costs for rubber bands in the 2007/8 period were £982,677. Figures obtained by ''The Daily Telegraph'' showed that between 2007 and 2011, spending on rubber bands increased by 40%. In 2009/2010, the numbers used equate to one rubber band being used for every 28 letters that the Royal Mail delivered.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Royal Mail rubber band」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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