What makes for good quality control?  Foreign countries do not have the quality control that was required in the past.  When we buy merchandise today, the quality control is just not there.  If you buy a blouse when you look  inside, the threads are hanging all over the place.  One blouse that I washed exited the washer with a separate front and back. The thread simply evaporated.  It was a must to return it to the store.   The sizes are not consistent.  Is it because if the goods are Chinese, which most everything we buy is, everything seems to run small. Is it because they have a different sizing system since they are small people?  Whereas in other countries the sizes run large.  The safest bet is to try on anything you buy to be sure.  But the best buy is – buy as many American products as you can.  This not only helps our manufacturing base; but, keeps our economy improving.

During my working days, we had quality control. Anything that was shipped to the European nations had to meet the Iso 9000 (the next year would be Iso 9001, etc.) specifications.  If the product was shipped to the oriental countries it had to meet a system that was called the Deming theory.  We went through all kinds of quality control gyrations with pies and charts.  In the Iso 9000 control any product shipped had to follow the same work pattern of control, no deviations, and it had to have that stamp on the product containers.  “This product meets Iso-9000 specifications.”  When you finished one shipment you felt like you could eat off the container.  And you know what, those people from what I can see don’t seem to be that particular in what they make and send to us – like cars.  It seems we have a consistent stream of  “car recalls.”  I guess that is what makes this country so great is that we are proud of our country and proud of the quality of the products we produce and ship all over the world.

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