OT: Bloody Royal Mail

[Shitsack Moishe Goldbergsky (né O'Reilly]

Fountains piss it all away.

[Murmansk]

A couple of bits of info that might be of interest from my chat with a Royal Mail worker (some years ago):

1. Imagine a grid of prices for sending stuff by post, two columns for first and second class and a few rows for the different weight bands. You'd find that the prices in each box are each only used once in the grid. Royal Mail's machines scan the stamps and determine first or second class processing by reading their value - so if you weren't sure of the price of something so decided to add a few stamps just to be sure it went first class, you MIGHT choose a value from the second class column and make it go second even though you'd overpaid!

1. Stick your stamps on all in a row so the machines can read their value, if you stick them all over the place it'll get delayed as it has to be manually processed.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

[Commander Kinsey]

Fuck off Pounder.

[Commander Kinsey]

Common sense does not escape like water, it is duplicated.

[Commander Kinsey]

If you google "large letter size" without the quotes, you immediately get an excerpt form a royal mail page. It gives only 750g as the weight for large letter, along with the dimensions. Even clicking the link to get the full page gives this:

's probably what I did to determine if I could use a large letter stamp on a package I was sending. There's no mention of large letter being used as a term for anything lighter. I've just sent them website feedback so they can correct their glaring error.

Is that a double negative? Did you mean "Is that usual?"?

[Shitsack Moishe Goldbergsky (né O'Reilly]

That only talks about the maximum size of a 'large letter'. It doesn't even mention pricing.

No, that would be "Isn't that not unusual"?

So is it usual to have separate kitchens and bathrooms where you are?

[Shitsack Moishe Goldbergsky (né O'Reilly]

Then perhaps you meant font and not fountain?

[Pamela]

On 18:10 10 Jan 2019, "Commander Kinsey" [e-mail]> wrote in news: [e-mail]:

The small print for the "large letter" stamp says a letter using the stamp can only be posted in a P.O. letter box during daylight hours. If you look closely there's an RFID chip in the adhesive.

I think this is a governement initiative to encourage other activities than posting large letters during daylight. Daylight is so precious.

You can get RFID reader-writers on eBay for only a tenner to override this limitation. Let us know how you get on.

[Commander Kinsey]

Exactly my point. It doesn't imply there's more than one band to "large letter". Why would I think there was? "Letter" is a fixed size and weight, I assumed "large letter" was too, as you can buy a stamp labelled as simply "large letter", not "large letter 100g".

"n't" is a negative, so is "un". What you wrote now is a triple negative.

Yes. But I don't keep the bathroom scale in the bathroom, not sure why anyone does really. Should I weigh myself when wet just to give me a higher reading?

[Commander Kinsey]

Both contain water, so both are equally poor analogies (to someone like you without any brains anyway).

[Tim Streater]

These two paras contradict each other.

[Shitsack Moishe Goldbergsky (né O'Reilly]

It doesn't imply otherwise. Why should it cost the same to send somethng weighing 3 oz (in old money) as it would to send something weighing almost 2 lbs? Luckily, it costs less than twice as much.

Your assumption was incorrect. Download this and keep for future reference:

By the same token, why would you think all parcels cost the same to send?

'Unusual' is a word in its own right, not a negative. 'Not usual' would be.

How very fancy! You mean you don't have a tin bath in the middle of the kitchen floor any more???

Don't most people weigh themselves without clothes at home so as to eliminate variations in the weight of clothing?

[Shitsack Moishe Goldbergsky (né O'Reilly]

Both contain water, but work in totally different ways. It was your analogy so you must be deficient in brains.

Have you never come across the expression 'font of all knowledge'???

[Commander Kinsey]

It was an analogy that intelligent people can grasp. I mistook you for one of those people. "Fountain" in the analogy simply means a thing that gives out things.

It's "fountain of all knowledge" according to google. Although it looks like people aren't sure:

Fountain: 91,400 results. Font: 54,000 results. Fount: 38,300 results.

If you look for a discussion about which is correct, nobody gives a definitive answer.

[Commander Kinsey]

Because that's what a "letter" is. It has a price of about 50p and is for up to about A5 size and 5mm thick. There is only one price, and it's called "letter".

Then for some reason "large letter" is actually a group of 4 prices, but that isn't mentioned in my link above.

I don't, but then you can't buy a "small parcel" stamp. A stamp bearing the name "large letter" should be valid for any "large letter".

Unusual means the same as not usual. Therefore they must both be negatives.

You mean a copper? My grandmother had one.

Yes, but why does that have to be done in the bathroom?

[Brian Gaff]

Yes the problem is that to try to find a really easy way to communicate with the public. I do also find that nowadays, technology has meant the Royal mail can reject mail with the wrong postage on it as well. There should be a smart phone app that you integrate with your internet connected kitchen scales so you can take a picture of the letter and weigh it before you go out!

grin. Brian

[Scott]

Even better, pay, download and print a barcode at home.

[Shitsack Moishe Goldbergsky]

Because there isn't that much variation in how big or heavy a letter can be.

The link above only gives the maximum size of a large letter and doesn't even address (excuse pun) prices.

But apparently it's not. Perhaps it once was. Do you want stamps bearing the inscriptions 'even larger letter' and 'largest letter'?

It may mean the same but it's not a negative in the same sense as 'Isn't' is. If I replace 'unusual' with the synonym (look it up) 'rare' is that a negative?

You're illiterate. No wonder you only got a f****ng C in Englsh!

Copper would be luxury. Galvanised steel was more common. I can't believe you pagans have finally entered the 20th century!

It's where you're most likely to be without clothes (assuming you do bathe). Why would you be walking around without any clothes on elsewhere in the house? You'll catch your death.

[Shitsack Moishe Goldbergsky]

But you just said both are equally poor analogies. Clearly, only someone without brains would make a poor analogy.

It gives out exactly what goes into it...unchanged.

It has to be font because a font is a container whereas a fountain simply acts as a conduit for water, constantly pissing out what comes in.