By @edent · innovation post office Royal Mail · 9 comments · 550 words · read ~324 times.
With the news that Royal Mail wants to end Saturday delivery, I got to thinking about how I'd try to innovate a way out of the mess they're in. The facts are that the critical mass of letter delivery has gone. It isn't coming back. Yes, I know your grandad likes receiving his bank statements […]
Continue reading →By @edent · law mail post Royal Mail · 350 words · read ~1,987 times.
This is mostly written so I can copy-and-paste it on to forums where people keep getting this basic information wrong. If you've ever moved house, you'll know how annoying it is to receive mail for the previous occupants. When those letters have a big red BAILIFFS ARE COMING warning on them - it is especially […]
Continue reading →By @edent · email inbox mail post Royal Mail · 300 words
For the last few years, I've been trying to opt out of having any postal mail sent to me. Wherever a company offers online billing - I sign up in a flash. My insurance company are now bored of me saying "rather than posting the policy - can you email it to me instead?" I've […]
Continue reading →By @edent · cwu fail favourites Royal Mail twitter · 1 comment · 250 words
What Are Twitter Favourites? Twitter allows you to mark certain posts as favourites. You may do this for a number of reasons - because you thought it was funny or interesting, because you want to reply to it later, or as a general bookmark feature They're Private, Right? Wrong. You can see any Twitter user's […]
Continue reading →By @edent · data free our data linked data post codes post office postcode Royal Mail · 2 comments · 250 words
VoteUK is no more. In order to precisely show you where your electoral registration office was, I needed to take its postcode and covert it to latitude and longitude. That's the service Ernest Marples provided. A few days ago, the Post Office - in their infinite wisdom - set their legal dogs on those running […]
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