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Just before Easter, I got a card from the Post Office saying that I had a letter with insufficient postage. After some thought, I decided it was probably worth sticking stamps on it and seeing what it was. Today, it arrived. I'm not entirely sure why Olympus felt it necessary to send me two copies of their PR, but I do wish that they'd also used two stamps on the envelope.

Popped into Waitrose, post wedding-suit-collection, to buy some bits and pieces and some wine. As I was hanging around in the wine section looking for a member of staff I could send off to find Michael, The Wine Man, he wandered over, greeted me like an old friend and asked if there was anything I needed. He really is very good (at least, none of the wine recipients has ever complained, and he usually points out a cheaper bottle or two for us that's always good). He very subtly and politely told me that my cunning plan was crap, and sold me something much better instead.

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[flickgc.livejournal.com]

[coff] I don't think I ever actually blamed the Post Office at any point, except possibly for the large fees that they charge when Other People don't apply the correct postage. [/coff]

Yes, afaik, I should have only had one copy. If there were to be two in the envelope (which I have no issue with), there should have been two labels. And two stamps.

It's the latter where you fell down, and, tbh, talking about widths of PRs isn't actually relevant to that unless you actually believe that, had they been machine-folded, two would have fallen within the limits.

(I do, however, appreciate your commenting to try to explain it!)

[gaspodia.livejournal.com]

It was gaspodex who seemed to be blaming the Post Office but it is his birthday today so I'll forgive him being wrong just this once :)

Eddie says two would have fallen within both the weight and width limits if they had been properly squished by the machine.