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thanks in advance The Riverton Post Office has four stations for service. Customers line up in single file for service on a FIFO basis. The

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The Riverton Post Office has four stations for service. Customers line up in single file for service on a FIFO basis. The mean arrival rate is 40 per hour, Poisson distributed, and the mean service time per server is 4 minutes, exponentially distributed. Compute the operating characteristics for this operation. Indicate whether the operation appears to be satisfactory in terms of the following: (a) postal workers' (servers") idle time; (b) customer waiting time and/or the number waiting for service; and (c) the percentage of the time a customer can walk in and get served without waiting at all

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