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

[Owain]

That sounds like a pretty good deal - I can't see any others on Ebay so they must be really, really rare.

Owain

[Spider]

Definitely a.

[Frederick Williams]

The use of such a system is quite independent of computers, their infallibility (or otherwise), and what people think about them.

[Frederick Williams]

Good thinking batman!

50 (say) = 110010 = thruppence-worth of stamps (presumably the 0p stamps are free)

but 7 = 111 also = thruppence-worth of stamps.

So are you saying that both 50p and 7p postage should actually cost 3p?

[Roland Perry]

In message , at 12:50:07 on Wed, 7 Jun

2006, Mark Robinson remarked:

Farty *little* lorries? Ever driven up the M1 late in the evening? It's not quite nose to tail with PO Juggernaughts, but they make up a significant proportion of the traffic.

[Owain]

Mary, and possibly others on uk.people.silversurfers, are probably still living in the era of the Night Mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner and the girl next door. Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb: The gradient's against her, but she's on time. Past cotton-grass and moorland boulder Shovelling white steam over her shoulder, Snorting noisily as she passes Silent miles of wind-bent grasses. (Wystan Hugh Auden)

Owain

[Frederick Williams]

In my scheme what is minimized is the number of stamp denominations rather than the number of stamps on an envelope.

[Richard Tobin]

In what way is it minimised? You can clearly make all denominations with a single (1p) denomination. And any base other than two would have fewer denominations for a given maximum amount.

-- Richard

[Owain]

You'd have to have stamps incorporating place value, so a 7p stamp would be made up of 1, 10 and 100 stamps stuck one on top of the other and right-aligned, and under the new system would cost £1.11

For 50p you'd need 10, 10000 and 100000 stamps, and under the same scheme would cost £1,100.10.

Owain

[Graeme Wall]

It's all relative, they are farty little lorries compared to a 325, furkin big juggernauts (ooh missis!) compared to my Laguna.

[JAF]

Pah! If I've paid for a stamp, I want the PO to deliver it, not some bloody courier.

[Peter Corlett]

Roland Perry wrote: [...]

Because the cost is mostly unaffected by distance travelled. The main costs are sorting and delivery.

[Bob Mannix]

I would have said delivery as a cost was closely driven by distance.

[Mary Fisher]

I didn't mention railways ... - and I'm definitely not subscribed to silver surfers :-)

In fact I've only just realised that this is cross-posted!

Better get back under the stone

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

Me too.

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

You don't understand typesetting.

[Mary Fisher]

I'd never thought of that!

Spot on, thanks.

Mary

[Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +]

Well I'm in SilverSurfers Mary and since yesterday around 11-15 yesterday thaere have been 133 of posts on this topic crossposted into Silversurfers. I foundthe first few informative - but after that well !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

[JAF]

Thanks for the reminder of why I never read s'surfers.

[JAF]

You don't understand my odd (strange, weird, abg irel shaal fbzrgvzrf sense of humour.