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It would also negate the point of the legislation that means they have to accept stamps in the first place.

You should not have to visit a post office in person or online to post a letter.

There are letter boxes in walking distance. If you've bought a book of stamps everything you need is in your desk.

That's the system we have and it would never be designed by a business that way. But it's a business that's taken on that system alongside the I infrastructure for it.

If you genuinely depend on the post accessibility to it is important. It could be modernised but it was working before, modernisation and cost saving are not the same thing.

I really like Aptera but they're totally focused on the US.

On street parking in the UK allows a minimum of 1.8m (70 inches).

Parking spaces a more sensible 2.4m (95 inches) wide

The Aptera is 88 inches wide. So it will leave 3.5 inches either side in a modern car park.

Or stick out just the front axle a foot and a half. Which is low to the ground and will get clattered by a bus. (Then driving off not reporting no doubt.)

So I could get very good at parking but still not have anywhere to park in town at any time it's busy.

I was going to invest until I saw the width, ultimately I still want one but it couldn't be my daily driver. My work carpark is always full and a lot of the spaces are old and painted at 2.3 meters.

That's before you consider country roads in Europe and how many diversions or additional sitting in traffic would be necessary.

You could potentially park diagonally on the road spaces with the rear able to go further in.

Just not for me. Nor is any car designed for the American market, they're all too big.

Fl. Oz are actually nothing to do with weight. They are volume.

For each fluid oz. use 30 ml

It's only approximate but the official measurements for nutrition actually do it in the US so it's not a real unit anyway anymore.

Stamps no longer have a face value. They are 1st or second class.

As they put up the price each year it's becoming common to buy stamps before the price rise and sell them after.

The margin on the last rise was ~13% on 2nd class stamps, 8% on first class stamps.

13% has been roughly the average every year since 2005.

So you can absolutely buy stamps at less than "face value". Someone who bought them 4 years ago could easily give you a 20% discount and still make a profit.

As stamps are not allowed to expire (or have to be replaced if they do) this is a safe investment.

Royal mail have encouraged this to inflate sales in the short term and are suffering from those valid stamps still being available now with no further revenue.

Taking the face value off stamps is what's caused this problem.

There was never an investment opportunity in buying a 90p stamp that was still worth 90p postage years later.

But buying 1000 2nd class stamps that are always worth 2nd class postage has been an inflation beating purchase.

Or they go close to bust and get renationalised.

If Labour are smart about it they'll keep the USO in place and when it's shown the business isn't profitable take the assets back into public hands at a reasonable price.

The key problem with the new stamps is there's no way for someone to check the validity themselves.

It's also just a barcode, so a fake stamp that gets used with that barcode first doesn't get stopped and the legitimate one does.

There have definitely been some batches where the barcodes have leaked.

Reminds me of striped biologist-taunters.

You don't have to throw out anything. Everything that's right has now been through peer reviewed studies authored by other people.

The problem is most of what Freud said is wrong, you can be a psychoanalyst without a medical degree because it isn't a medical field.

Modern psychiatry is a separate subject and you're happy to defend psychoanalysis and conflate it with psychiatry.

Which would be no different to conflating nutritionists and dietitians, chiropractors and physiotherapists, or, to quote Dara O'Brien, dentists and toothologists.

Hey I'm just checking in with your account status. Definitely just that, not hoping you'll but anything...

All emails companies send you are designed to get you to spend money.

It's an ad.

Of course if that ad comes with a discount I might not be unhappy to get it. But if a(n) ~~status message~~ ad comes in reminding me of pizza and it's on a day they want me to pay full price for dominos. Then I don't want that message.

Either I'll feel hungrier or poorer.

Freud was wrong about a lot of stuff.

You disagree. Very strongly.

Why?

Honestly, Zoom just has a hilariously high frequency of vulnerabilities being discovered.

Let's set the sentence for executing an innocent man to, death.

The first barrier to the death penalty is to make sure verdicts are right 100% of the time.

After that you can begin the debate about **whether it's moral at all.

So now the person back-tracking on their "facts" is claiming others should do better research.

I said you were wrong and you were wrong. So I guess this is where we find out whether you care about objectivity.

Are you going to shift your opinion any iota's to match the facts?

"You are a fish in water, unaware of swimming in it."

Your first instinct was to attack the messenger, not the message. But feel free to take a second stab at it.