OT - old stamps for new?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Oddly enough all three local towns to me have well maintained free public loos in at least one place, though other places have lapsed.

And many retail outlets maintain toilets for customer use.

[Martin Brown]

Although I can find that claim on various third party news websites I cannot find it stated on the Royal Mail website. What am I missing?

vs Royal Mail still shows 31/1/23 as the deadline

which still say that the 31/1/2023 deadline stands.

[The Natural Philosopher]

But here you *aren't* communicating with a regionally local peer group. And that's what I said. For wide area networking (sic!) you need standard protocols agreed by all.

[Rob Morley]

That's the same word, there's no difference except in the way you choose to say it. Typically you'd say "penny ha'penny" or "three ha'pence" for 1-1/2 d but "tuppence ha'penny" for 2-1/2 d, so even mixing the two forms in the same phrase, Then there's the phrase "tuppenny ha'penny" so you could say that either way too. During the introduction of decimal coinage there was a tendency to call new penny amounts "pee" to distinguish from the old pennies, but I don't think we ever said "dee" for the old ones. "New pennies" and "old pennies" (and speaking slowly) were used when explaining to confused old folk.

[Chris J Dixon]

There is a certain amount of use of "x pence", but sadly this sometimes includes the case of x = 1. :-(

Chris

[Mark Carver]

Reading some of the press reports, it seems the extra 6 months to July

31st 2023 is described by 'Royal Mail' as a, quote; 'Grace Period', so yet again it's another example of legacy GPO era mind set mealy mouthed  attitudes.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I think I have clearly analysed the usage of 'penny' versus 'pence to define 'penny as the adjectival form of 'pence'

I.e. It's called a tuppeny f*ck because it only costs tuppence

[Ian Jackson]

In message <tlnn9m$l8kt$ [e-mail], The Natural Philosopher [e-mail] writes

Well you must have led an extremely sheltered life!

[Ian Jackson]

In message <tlnpq8$leth$ [e-mail], The Natural Philosopher [e-mail] writes

Very sheltered life indeed!

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[gareth evans]

On the continent you don't spend a penny, you euronate

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not nearly as narrow as you it seems

[The Natural Philosopher]

Yes your safe space snoflake echochamber is. Lets hope it doesnt collapse

[Max Demian]

If you haven't got a ha'penny a *farthing* will do. If you haven't got a farthing then...

[Max Demian]

I suppose they may have been pure copper at one time, but I only remember the bronze ones (copper, tin and, I think, a little zinc).

From 1992 they were steel with a layer of something coppery on top.

[Max Demian]

It used to be that first class stamps had two phosphor bands and second class, and the supplemental stamps had one, so it should have been all right. Or you could try two supplemental stamps to save money.

[Tim Streater]

With any luck the 1p and 2p will be scrapped. The Swiss, for example, have not had a coin less than five centimes since at least the 1960s. Thus, the Swiss Franc is actually split into 20 smaller units. So much for whoever, earlier, was bleating about that during their youth, they found the idea of how the £ was then subdivided, to be odd.

[Rod Speed]

And public transport in most jurisdictions now.

[Rod Speed]

Ans quite a bit of ungrammatical common useage is just because it is more convenient with the meaning still very obvious.

[Rod Speed]

But not with some classic technically incorrect but still obvious like the classic less/fewer etc

[Vir Campestris]

A 10p now is worth less than a 1p was in 1972 according to the Bank of England inflation calculator. We could lose the 5p too.

Andy