Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps
smeg@feddit.uk 7 months agoAlso a lot of people who do use computers! Lots of people selling their stuff of eBay or Etsy will be sending things in the post. Way less letters than the old days, but way more parcels (I think).
lud@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Can you send parcels with stamps?
And yes people send way less letters now. Our national postal company has been scaling back on letters and normal posts for quite some time now. Because suprise suprise no one sends letters anymore except different governments and even then there are now electronic ways to receive those letters.
smeg@feddit.uk 7 months ago
You can, yes. Also a lot of the time the things you’re sending are small enough to fit in a letter or large letter.
lud@lemm.ee 7 months ago
My postal agency dislikes when you send objects that aren’t small in letters for example keys. The odds are quite large that the automatic sorting machines will tear the letter open and/or the letter will get stuck in the machinery.
echodot@feddit.uk 7 months ago
They take pictures of the letters as they come in from all angles, and then a computer algorithm builds a 3D structure of the letter so they know how big it is and which machines it can and can’t go through if it’s too big to go through a particular machine it gets redirected to another process. Also they have metal detectors so the keys would be detected right away.
Maybe in the '90s this was a problem with large items in envelopes but not anymore because they can detect it before it gets anywhere near the problem machine.
They have a whole list of things you can and can’t post and one of the things you can post is live insects so obviously they’re not mangling everything to an auto sorter.
smeg@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Royal Mail list the thicknesses that are allowed, but they all go in the same letterbox so I assume their machines can handle it