Did I hear right?

Jim Lesurf said the following on 29/01/2010 15:38:
In article , Paul Heslop
wrote:
Richard Brooks wrote:
Ian said the following on 29/01/2010 00:48:
In message , Paul Heslop
writes
Brian Gaff wrote:
Is the Post office boss now going to run ITV.

I'm sure there would be a joke there . A very bad one.
We tried to broadcast but you were out.

heh heh

The program cannot be transmitted as it is too big for the time slot.

...and we won't tell you what it was until you go to a distant office at an
inconvenient time and pay us a few extra quid first! :-)

Slainte,

Jim

The sponsorship money you claimed was there has gone. To claim a
refund go to our Timbuktu office which is open between 7.00am and 7.01am

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes
In article ,
Ian wrote:
In message , Paul Heslop
writes
Brian Gaff wrote:

Is the Post office boss now going to run ITV.

I'm sure there would be a joke there . A very bad one.

Brian

yeah, it wouldn't be funny but it's how things work nowadays. Doesn't
matter how bad someone is, they will be described as 'experienced'

It's time this sort of thing was stamped out.

I take it that is your frank opinion since you've posted it here?


:¬)

I guess all ITV transmissions will be now be in "Letterbox" format.
--
Ian

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:03:45 +0000, Ian wrote:

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes
In article ,
Ian wrote:
In message , Paul Heslop
writes
Brian Gaff wrote:

Is the Post office boss now going to run ITV.

I'm sure there would be a joke there . A very bad one.

Brian

yeah, it wouldn't be funny but it's how things work nowadays. Doesn't
matter how bad someone is, they will be described as 'experienced'

It's time this sort of thing was stamped out.

I take it that is your frank opinion since you've posted it here?


:¬)

I guess all ITV transmissions will be now be in "Letterbox" format.

Very good. Your prize is in the post.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

In article , Ian
writes
In message , Paul Heslop
writes
Brian Gaff wrote:

Is the Post office boss now going to run ITV.

I'm sure there would be a joke there . A very bad one.

Brian

yeah, it wouldn't be funny but it's how things work nowadays. Doesn't
matter how bad someone is, they will be described as 'experienced'

It's time this sort of thing was stamped out.

First or second class? ;-)
--
Kennedy
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's ****ed.
Python Philosophers (replace 'nospam' with 'kennedym' when replying)

In article , Norman Wells
wrote:
Jim Lesurf wrote:

...and the took away our closest postbox last year, so the 'people'
here now have to walk into the center of town. Presumably we aren't
"customers", just people with letters to post... :-)

But how many letters do you actually send a year, and how many of those
are actually necessary, in that the matters concerned could not have
been dealt with by some other, probably more efficient method, such as
email?

You are welcome to rule your own life in accord with your own preferences.

I post letters most weeks. Up to you what you do.

It's pretty archaic these days to be transporting physical bits
of paper around the world, isn't it?

The use of speech goes back even longer, Have you stopped speaking
altogether?

My impression is that the Grand Plan has been to close all post
offices and postboxs. Then say, "Look, individuals don't post letters
any more!" and just use RM to distribute junk mail in even more bulk.
Perhaps we can then fit our letterboxes to our blue bins and cut out
the middleman. :-)

I think we should in fact abolish the Post Office altogether. That
would get rid of the junk menace they've become, and I don't think we'd
lose that much if we did.

You seem to live in another world where no other 'carriers' would deliver
junk mail. We certainly get junk from deliveries other than RM.


The major argument against, which is that
Post Ofices act as some sort of social centre for the elderly, I don't
regard as very convincing for a commercial enterprise.

I guess Trolls prefer somewhere darker. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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In article ,
Ian wrote:
In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes
In article ,
Ian wrote:
In message , Paul Heslop
writes
Brian Gaff wrote:

Is the Post office boss now going to run ITV.

I'm sure there would be a joke there . A very bad one.

Brian

yeah, it wouldn't be funny but it's how things work nowadays. Doesn't
matter how bad someone is, they will be described as 'experienced'

It's time this sort of thing was stamped out.

I take it that is your frank opinion since you've posted it here?


:¬)

I guess all ITV transmissions will be now be in "Letterbox" format.

;-) Cigar won and sent by Parcel Force. So you'll understand when it
doesn't arrive. Or as pipe tobacco.

--
*How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Norman Wells
wrote:
Jim Lesurf wrote:

...and the took away our closest postbox last year, so the 'people'
here now have to walk into the center of town. Presumably we aren't
"customers", just people with letters to post... :-)

But how many letters do you actually send a year, and how many of
those are actually necessary, in that the matters concerned could
not have been dealt with by some other, probably more efficient
method, such as email?

You are welcome to rule your own life in accord with your own
preferences.

I post letters most weeks. Up to you what you do.

But why should _I_ subsidise _your_ inefficient practices?


It's pretty archaic these days to be transporting physical bits
of paper around the world, isn't it?

The use of speech goes back even longer, Have you stopped speaking
altogether?

The difference is, speech hasn't been supplanted by anything more efficient.
Taking bits of paper to Australia has.


My impression is that the Grand Plan has been to close all post
offices and postboxs. Then say, "Look, individuals don't post
letters any more!" and just use RM to distribute junk mail in even
more bulk. Perhaps we can then fit our letterboxes to our blue bins
and cut out the middleman. :-)

I think we should in fact abolish the Post Office altogether. That
would get rid of the junk menace they've become, and I don't think
we'd lose that much if we did.

You seem to live in another world where no other 'carriers' would
deliver junk mail. We certainly get junk from deliveries other than
RM.

They might, but I think it would be rather easier to control than a body
that also, occasionally, delivers stuff that's worthwhile. As far as I'm
aware, it's not possible to opt out of Royal Mail deliveries.

The major argument against, which is that
Post Ofices act as some sort of social centre for the elderly, I
don't regard as very convincing for a commercial enterprise.

I guess Trolls prefer somewhere darker. :-)

Maybe they do. But so what?

In article ,
Norman Wells wrote:
I post letters most weeks. Up to you what you do.

But why should _I_ subsidise _your_ inefficient practices?

There are plenty of things that will still need delivering by post or
whatever. Things like your car tax disc spring to mind. And by no means do
all the population have access or know how to use electronic communication.

I'm also willing to bet there is some form of subsidised facility you make
use of that Jim doesn't.

--
*Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Norman Wells wrote:
I post letters most weeks. Up to you what you do.

But why should _I_ subsidise _your_ inefficient practices?

There are plenty of things that will still need delivering by post or
whatever. Things like your car tax disc spring to mind. And by no
means do all the population have access or know how to use electronic
communication.

I'm just going on the proportion of the 'mail' delivered through my door by
Royal Mail that is spam. If it was your email client that allowed so much
through, you'd be both complaining and looking for another provider or a way
of preventing it. It's frankly unacceptable, and I'd like it to stop.

Of course there are things that actually need to be delivered; I've never
denied that. But I'd like all my post to be necessary please, not just a
minority. So, I'm not advocating that all delivery services should be
abolished, just the Royal Mail that is currently abusing its position by
delivering copious quantities of junk. Other delivery services operate
efficiently without doing that after all, so why can't they?

On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:23:50 -0000, "Norman Wells"
wrote:

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Norman Wells wrote:
I post letters most weeks. Up to you what you do.

But why should _I_ subsidise _your_ inefficient practices?

There are plenty of things that will still need delivering by post or
whatever. Things like your car tax disc spring to mind. And by no
means do all the population have access or know how to use electronic
communication.

I'm just going on the proportion of the 'mail' delivered through my door by
Royal Mail that is spam. If it was your email client that allowed so much
through, you'd be both complaining and looking for another provider or a way
of preventing it. It's frankly unacceptable, and I'd like it to stop.

I feel your pain.

How much more would you and others be prepared to pay to send letters
and small parcels to compensate for the fact that junk mail companies
are not paying for the postperson to go to your house?

Of course there are things that actually need to be delivered; I've never
denied that. But I'd like all my post to be necessary please, not just a
minority. So, I'm not advocating that all delivery services should be
abolished, just the Royal Mail that is currently abusing its position by
delivering copious quantities of junk. Other delivery services operate
efficiently without doing that after all, so why can't they?

The Royal Mail are operating commercially by delivering junk that people
have paid them to deliver.

If the Royal Mail stopped doing it someone else would take over.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)