Our posties are always littering the streets and even my driveway with regular brown rubber bands!
Royal Mail Rubber Band
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you happen to have a relevant source for this information the Wikipedia entry could use a citation for that statement in the introductory paragraph. Unfortunately personal experience and observation is not sufficient.
Never change, HN.
Could you explain? I'm not sure where I went wrong.
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#13Our post is still delivered in rubber bands, but they're no longer red.
Quebec, Canada, blue bands here...
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Never change, HN.
Could you explain? I'm not sure where I went wrong.
I think this is probably down to unfortunate phrasing - at first blush it looked like you're doing the [citation needed] thing on someone who was just adding an interesting anecdote to the brown/red band situation. However I assume you just wanted to say that this info would be an interesting addition to that page, and if OP had any idea whether there was any more official info on this that would be cool, since the anecdote alone likely won't satisfy wikipedia editors.
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#15I think our mail systems are probably some of the most wasteful aspects of our society. At this point, I really can’t imagine the need for actual mail to come to my house. Fully 95% of the mail I get is adverts, 4.999% are bills (that could be digital), and .001% is genuine letters from another person.
All that paper, fuel and wasted human effort to make sure I get something I throw away in the recycle bin immediately after I get it. It should honestly be a crime and I don’t know how it isn’t.
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#16Our post is still delivered in rubber bands, but they're no longer red.
Ours seem to be the conventional beige too. Maybe custom rubber bands were costing too much.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could you explain? I'm not sure where I went wrong.
I think this is probably down to unfortunate phrasing - at first blush it looked like you're doing the [citation needed] thing on someone who was just adding an interesting anecdote to the brown/red band situation. However I assume you just wanted to say that this info would be an interesting addition to that page, and if OP had any idea whether there was any more official info on this that would be cool, since the a…
Observing non-red rubber bands doesn't make a person more likely to have a link to a Wikipedia-accepted source article about it, right? So the person suggesting a Wikipedia edit may just as well Google it themselves.
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#18Our posties are always littering the streets and even my driveway with regular brown rubber bands!
Not so common these days and for me personally a shame as was always a good source of freebies in that respect, I had to buy some a while back and ironically the quality of bands the post office use are pretty darn good compared to the ones I purchased (which all turned to crud after a few years and kinda dried out for want of a better way of explaining how they went).
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could you explain? I'm not sure where I went wrong.
I think this is probably down to unfortunate phrasing - at first blush it looked like you're doing the [citation needed] thing on someone who was just adding an interesting anecdote to the brown/red band situation. However I assume you just wanted to say that this info would be an interesting addition to that page, and if OP had any idea whether there was any more official info on this that would be cool, since the a…
Thanks.
Yes, at the time I wrote the original comment, in the Wikipedia page linked there was a comment in the lead section of the article: "The Royal Mail no longer uses red rubber bands.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}". And given that the comment I was replying to seemed to be from someone local I thought they might be in a position to have or find a reference and update the Wikipedia article with that, since other comments here seemed to agree that the rubber bands are not currently red.
However that sentence has just been removed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Royal_Mail_rubber...
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#20I think our mail systems are probably some of the most wasteful aspects of our society. At this point, I really can’t imagine the need for actual mail to come to my house. Fully 95% of the mail I get is adverts, 4.999% are bills (that could be digital), and .001% is genuine letters from another person. All that paper, fuel and wasted human effort to make sure I get something I throw away in the recycle bin immediatel…
The government figured out the ad-sponsored business model well before Facebook and Twitter. I only receive junk mail, but I guess it subsidizes package delivery that I actually want.