• Doug Holland@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    I used to work for an insurance company (life, not health), and when business was sluggish my duties included tidying and auditing very, very old policies. 99% of policies from the 1930s-50s were for men, and the few women’s policies all had LETTERS FROM THEIR HUSBANDS AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE.

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      23 days ago

      What’s the point of auditing something that old? Wouldn’t it just be digitizing and archiving at that point?

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        23 days ago

        Doublechecking numbers, like @phdepressed said, while also making sure that all the pertinent pages had been legibly scanned before incinerating the originals.