Tag: Royal Mail
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Annoyed with @amazon and their b0rked business model
Last week I was sent a $50 Amazon.com gift voucher: a very pleasant surprise. I immediately loaded the voucher into my Amazon.com account (I had one of these long before I got an amazon.co.uk account) and then thought about what books I’d like to order – picked a couple and thought “that’s nice”. Despite the […]
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What Rowland Hill really meant
A new letter from Rowland Hill, the Victorian postal reformer has been discovered: My proposal for a universal penny post was adopted, but I greatly regret it. It is true that my proposal, on adoption, led to vast increase in mails, and contributed to the greater wealth of the kingdom. It eliminated, at a stroke, […]