It never ceases to astonish me how often, at Christmas, the Royal Mail's machinery fails to frank postage stamps. Waste Not, Want Not, as the saying goes. I remove unmarked stamps from the envelopes; soak and float them on a saucer of water; carefully peel them off after a few hours; dry them; and re-use them with gluey gum.
Within the last year or so I have accumulated 23 stamps, 6 of them first class. That equates to £7.44.
Given that the population of the UK is roughly sixty million, if a mere 1% of people "do what I do", the Royal Mail has lost £4,464,000 in revenue.
Thank you very much, Royal Mail.
Thursday, 3 December 2009
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4 comments :
I hope you didn't spend too much on glue Tim ha ha
No worries there, John: I've an ancient Pritt stick somewhere. :-)
Isn't that illegal? :)
You've stumped me there, Stephen. Perhaps it is!
Except there are no markings on them...
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