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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!
The Royal Mail also encouraged bulk mail during that time doing final mile for companies that were competition and specialising in junk mail.
Luckily those days are over and most non elderly people in the UK can expect zero letters on most days.
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.
I 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…
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!
I was depending on England's defeat and planned to sing "Just one Cornetto" from the back door at final whistle, but it looks like I might be disappointed.
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…
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I was depending on England's defeat and planned to sing "Just one Cornetto" from the back door at final whistle, but it looks like I might be disappointed.
I wouldn't bet, myself. England's horrid habit of passing backward, which I have seen for over 50 years, may still sink them. As my late Dad used to say, you want to play your game in the opponent's half.
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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.
I don't think I've seen a cheque used in decades now. Are they even still accepted in shops?
Now the official line is that cheque's will continue as long as people use them, but substantial investment will be made in making digital transfers the default. This has meant replacing the slow BACS and expensive CHAPS with Faster Payments, and cash with contactless.
So cheque is accepted almost nowhere, almost dead, but is being strung along until the boomers are gone. It would be fine if it wasn't such a PIA to handle.