I just wanted to buy a stamp, but ahead of me at the post office were
• A young migrant couple with not enough forms of ID to get a passport, which took ten minutes to establish.
• A middle-aged white man having no problem getting his passport, but that still took ten minutes.
• A man with a shopping trolley full of identical parcels, handing each one over to the counter staff to be weighed and have a postage label attached. He was there the whole time I was there.
• A man with limited mobility being assisted by his wife/daughter, who we all let go in front of us, then being told that this post office didn’t have the forms he needed but a post office five km away probably did, yes, he would have to attend there in person.
• A woman showing a picture on her phone to a staff member who assured her that no, we don’t sell that (astonishingly, they sell air fryers FFS).
I just wanted to buy a stamp at the post office.
tqft
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •fortunately last time I was at a big post office the line was fast and many counters open.
They also have a stamp vending machine
Deborah Pickett
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Unknown parent • • •Bernard Sheppard
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •FFS, this is why we need
a) digital postage (we've already got it for parcels, why not stamps?)
b) free postage for non-commercial purposes
I post, on average, one letter every two years, and have to buy supplementary stamps to top up the postage for the stamps I have since they are no longer the right value.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Bernard Sheppard • •@Bernard Sheppard @Deborah Pickett but digital postage is ugly
I mean, it gets the job done, but receiving a postcard or a personal letter with a nice stamp that matches your interests / matches the card / sends you on a wikipedia trip to learn more about somebody or something is so much nicer :)
(OTOH, here we have stamps for the most common formats that no longer have a value printed on them: whenever you have bought them they are valid for the current price of sending that format)
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Bernard Sheppard • •@Bernard Sheppard @Deborah Pickett of course if you're¹ sending non-personal mail, 100% go for digital postage, there is no need to do a trip to the post office just for a *company*
¹ generic you
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Damien (TIG BUSINESS)
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •"Clarke & Dawe" Trouble with Stamps (TV Episode 1990) | Short, Comedy, News
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in reply to devopscats • • •sabik
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •The existence of domestic stamps implies the existence of feral stamps
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Steveg58
in reply to Deborah Pickett • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Deborah Pickett • •@Deborah Pickett @Pilum::🌞 does “everything” include the service of mail delivery?
(any reference to our own post are purely coincidental)
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