My dad was a postman. He always used to bring home big bundles of these and I’d make rubber band balls out of them. Good times. =)
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#42my 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 was expecting the same, even though I’m 38! On the upside, you dodged what could have been a horrible accident: Ropes snap and take away limbs, tug-o-war accidents are horrible and at scale - https://priceonomics.com/a-history-of-tug-of-war-fatalities/
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#43I 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…
In most western countries the mail is the official way to reach you. Court, legal, tax, etc documents will all come via the national post. That’s a large part of why they’re protected, we don’t have a good mechanism to replace this. At the very least, gig-workers ain’t it.
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#44It seems they no longer use them. I remember having to pick them up quite regularly so it’s no wonder they consumed so many.
I live in York, England.
They bloody well do still use them; I find them on my doorstep regularly!
I've got on hanging around the fire smash glass activation thingie outside my door, and another around a handle on my chest of drawers (can't remember why!).
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#45my 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 was expecting the same, even though I’m 38! On the upside, you dodged what could have been a horrible accident: Ropes snap and take away limbs, tug-o-war accidents are horrible and at scale - https://priceonomics.com/a-history-of-tug-of-war-fatalities/
He wouldn't have been able to stretch it in the first place to dangerous levels of potential energy.
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#46I 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.
FWIW If you’re in the UK you can opt out of non addressed mail (https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/...) delivered via RM
In 2005 the Royal Mail was fully privatised. Since then I personally feel the amount of unaddressed mail has increased. But that might be in my head
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think I've seen a cheque used in decades now. Are they even still accepted in shops?
There had been plans to phase out the cheque in 2018, however the portion of the population that still uses cheque wield popular sympathy, so the plan was abandoned. 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 wi…
Checks have the advantage that they teach everyone patience - whenever someone at the supermarket checkout is taking a solid 5 minutes writing a check for $13.92, and then the cashier takes another 5 minutes going through some complicated ritual accepting the check as payment.
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#48At my high school in the US back in the 70’s (yikes), all the rage was to have your school books bound and carried using a US Postal Service adjustable leather tie-out strap.
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#49I 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…
In most western countries the mail is the official way to reach you. Court, legal, tax, etc documents will all come via the national post. That’s a large part of why they’re protected, we don’t have a good mechanism to replace this. At the very least, gig-workers ain’t it.
(IANAL) I thought the court was required to serve more important papers (like warrants) via courier, in-person. But agreed that does lack scalability.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was expecting the same, even though I’m 38! On the upside, you dodged what could have been a horrible accident: Ropes snap and take away limbs, tug-o-war accidents are horrible and at scale - https://priceonomics.com/a-history-of-tug-of-war-fatalities/
He wouldn't have been able to stretch it in the first place to dangerous levels of potential energy.
I think they mean if something actually had happened (Which would have been impossible) it would have been a very bad!