[OT] Face value of stamps and the costs of posting

[Mary Fisher]

It's amazing what bothers some!

[Guy King]

The message from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

I found that pulling the green plug from a biro and sticking it in a black biro would stop her walking off with it.

[Richard Conway]

Could you scare her by doing the reverse

[Mary Fisher]

Wotchit, the net nanny will see you ...

[Marcus Houlden]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 08:36:36 +0100, Mike Barnes wrote the following to uk.misc:

Speaking of which, what *did* happen to misc's other Linz? The previous incumbent was a Scottish bloke.

mh.

[Sn!pe]

Only two days late; I bet you're a silver-surfer, ain'tcha, hmmm?

[Sn!pe]

I went through a (blessedly brief) phase of using 'peacock blue' ink in my Osmiroid at school. I'm not sure just exactly what I was rebelling against that called for such extreme measures, unless it was homew*rk in general.

[Guy King]

The message from Richard Conway contains these words:

Never tried. Nice woman, with sufficient sense of humour to spend the afternoon laughing after I backed a trailer into the workshop rollershutter.

[Patrick Hardlentil]

And Charles Ellson was like:

Ah yes, that could be it. Thank you.

[Show Me On The Badger Where Th]

So. That's you, me, Linz and Clive D.W. Feather.

[bof]

In message , Show Me On The Badger Where The Man Touched You writes

I'm here too, but just as a test of Turing's proposition, not sure if that counts.

[Mary Fisher]

Not her trailer, I suppose, nor her rollershutter!

Mary

[Charles Ellson]

Whoever does the delivery usually receives pre-sorted bundles which in final handling should only require examination of the street number (and in some cases a further subdivision of that element). If they had to examine the full address in case someone or something else has failed to provide or translate the correct information then this would greatly increase the time needed to handle the mail which would be to the general detriment of most recipients.

[Charles Ellson]

The trick is to use your felt tip pen to cover the machine coding marks first otherwise the sorting machinery is liable to re-read any coding marks which relate to your address and simply send it back round the same route through the system. My mother had the same envelope come back to her four times before I managed to explain to her that machines won't pay any attention to "Not known at this address" if they can still read the original incorrect information.

[Bob Mannix]

We've moved on from there. You can't do 33p or 36p though - so there!

[Peter King]

Postal orders do not work like that anymore

[Peter King]

Why don't you use smart stamp, or have a franking machine?

If you don't send enough post to make either of thse worth while then a 'large stock of stamps' is not a significant investment.

The post office will deliver stamps to your door so there is no need to use 'time and petrol'

[Peter Masson]

That list doesn't include 1st and 2nd class stamps. You can do

33p = 1st class (32) + 1p 36p = 1st class (32) + 2p + 2p.

Peter

[Bob Eager]

Because the original statement was that you could do any number with THREE stamps...

[Fred]

I used a couple a few years back. The cashpoint machines were out of order in the town we were staying and I had a chequebook with me. The PO would charge us £3.00 for cashing a cheque or alternatively I could buy a postal order and then cash that for a lot less "commission".