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Re: Royal Mail Rubber Band

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Post by Zenst » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 6:27 PM UTC

globular-toast wrote: post #2

I remember collecting rubber bands from the postie as a child to make a rubber band ball. I remember most of them being brown. Sometimes our post comes bundled with a rubber band now. I don't think I've ever seen a red one.

I had 3 small packages arrive this Friday, left on my door and tied together in a brown rubber band. Like you, I have never seen a red one either, blue one's yes, though rare.

Re: Royal Mail Rubber Band

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Post by kencausey » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 6:28 PM UTC

Luc wrote: post #17

smcl wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes, you are right I did not try to search for it myself before writing the comment. However I did just try and it is harder than you might think to search for something like this. I suspect if I had a better understanding of British English I might more readily stumble onto an appropriate phrasing that turns up a source.

Re: Royal Mail Rubber Band

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Post by pacaro » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 6:32 PM UTC

Has anyone noticed that in the UK, posties work for the Royal Mail, whereas in the US, mail carriers work for the US Postal Service. It's a curious inversion

Re: Royal Mail Rubber Band

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Post by dTal » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 6:37 PM UTC

pacaro wrote: post #23

Has anyone noticed that in the UK, posties work for the Royal Mail, whereas in the US, mail carriers work for the US Postal Service. It's a curious inversion

In the UK, you get the bill and you pay with a cheque. In the US you get the check and you pay with a bill.

Re: Royal Mail Rubber Band

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Post by hughrr » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 6:41 PM UTC

zlib wrote: post #11

Our posties are always littering the streets and even my driveway with regular brown rubber bands!

The kids clear them up here. In my case I spent several years carrying a scooter with about 3kg of the things on the main pole back from school every day.

Re: Royal Mail Rubber Band

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Post by 123pie123 » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 6:41 PM UTC

my uncle was a postman, when I young he used to give me as many rubber bands as I needed, from memory they were brown

I made a daisy chain of rubber bands that - when stetched, was about 400meters long (to the end of our street). When i let it go, I thought something crazy would happen (i was about 6-7)but in reality nothing really happened it just shrank fast

I was extremely disapointed, it look many days to do this, I learnt at an early age about imagination vs reality

Re: Royal Mail Rubber Band

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Post by tyingq » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 6:59 PM UTC

I'd once seen a show about a murderer in the UK that was caught partially due to his use of yellow cable ties that were exclusive to the Royal Mail.

A bit of Googling shows it came from the murder of Leanne Tiernan. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2116617.stm

Re: Royal Mail Rubber Band

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Post by zabzonk » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 7:04 PM UTC

If the odd rubber band is the price I have to pay for nice, friendly men (and they are almost all men, for some reason) turning up at my door, and perhaps helping me if some disaster has befallen me, then it's a price I'm willing to pay.

Now, back to watching England getting slaughtered by Italy... oh, wait!

Re: Royal Mail Rubber Band

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Post by chrisseaton » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 7:11 PM UTC

zabzonk wrote: post #28

If the odd rubber band is the price I have to pay for nice, friendly men (and they are almost all men, for some reason) turning up at my door, and perhaps helping me if some disaster has befallen me, then it's a price I'm willing to pay. Now, back to watching England getting slaughtered by Italy... oh, wait!

> perhaps helping me if some disaster has befallen me

What service are you referring to?

Re: Royal Mail Rubber Band

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Post by zabzonk » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 7:18 PM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #29

zabzonk wrote: post #28

If the odd rubber band is the price I have to pay for nice, friendly men (and they are almost all men, for some reason) turning up at my door, and perhaps helping me if some disaster has befallen me, then it's a price I'm willing to pay. Now, back to watching England getting slaughtered by Italy... oh, wait!

> perhaps helping me if some disaster has befallen me What service are you referring to?

The ones where they look through your window and seen you have fallen and cannot get up.