I just changed my order of magazines at the counter to the bare minimum. Why? Me, my dad, my friends, heck everybody I know throws out a large bag of unused Watchtowers and Awakes every few months or at least once a year.
Then it hit me. The Watchtower says it's circulation (at present) is about 28 million copies of each magazine. If there are six million witnesses and we each waste as little as one copy above the one we need for ourselves, then about 25% of the Watchtowers produced are never used. If the wasteage is worse, the figures get scarier.
If every witness uses one copy for themself and wastes two copies, as in doesn't place them, just throws them away, then 75% of the watchtowers circulation is not being used in field service.
Is it possible, that after taking wasteage into consideration, the Watchtower's actual READ and USED circulation is merely a sad fraction of what is stated?