Towards a Retention Quadrant for the Departmental Pigeonhole

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement audits 132 departmental mail pigeonholes into a four-cell Retention Quadrant crossing collection frequency against volume accumulation, finding that clearance behaviour in the two lower-retention cells rises sharply during the audit's most visible weeks. The department adopts the classification unchanged as the basis for the coming year's allocation, moving affected staff to digital-only distribution with no avenue for reclassification before the next audit.

@misc{slop_emmgl8,
  author       = {Osei Vandermeer and Casimir Beng and Dagny Okafor},
  title        = {Towards a Retention Quadrant for the Departmental Pigeonhole},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.emmgl8},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-department-s-mail-emmgl8/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}