You get the airmail bit automatically @B3 I just wanted a £1.70 stamp to send a card. Used to buy them on-line all the time when my brother was in California and they were just a strip to stick to the envelope not an A4 sheet!
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."Â Sir Terry Pratchett
If it's a card, I stick 3or 4 first class stamps on the envelope and hope for the best. If they want to charge the recipient at the other end,they can refuse to accept it but they will at least know you tried😉
I always weigh everything and keep stamps in. A sheet of 5p and 1p usually makes up the right amount. I've never stuck an air mail sticker on, our postie says it’s not necessary. He will take all my letters and parcels. Â
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
Today the doorbell rang. I answered to a polite gentleman asking if we wanted some kind of home improvement green molluscs. Â Molluscs? Think B word but a bit like molluscs. He was on our step with no mask. I answered the door but had to back away to be the recommended distance.
You might think get over it already. I am just the right side of sixty with asthma and a little paranoid and afraid. Why do these people and organizations think it is okay.
Look at me you Fcuk wits. I am white haired, wrinkly with glasses and obviously old-er.
If I venture out I take and wear a mask. It is rare because I believe in protecting our NHS. So they can deal with what is going on.
I am not curmudgeonly I am bladdy furiously pig sick of it.
I always put air mail stickers on my international letters - I had no idea they were now superfluous. When I ask for them at the Post Office I am surprised they haven’t said they’re unnecessary.
I had about 10 overseas Christmas cards to send so took them in to the PO around 3 weeks ago, buying the special Christmas stamps. I then posted them last week.
No-one is getting Christmas stamps from me this year, under 'house arrest' since March, no car and forbidden to use public transport, village Post Office disappeared 2 years ago. I managed to get ordinary stamps in a grocery delivery but they are 1st or 2nd in a book and nothing else.
I am living a quiet and frugal existence and don't need badly designed websites just now!
I didn't know about the Air Mail stickers either, I usually use the self service machine in the Post Office in town and just stick on whatever it spews out - clearly not been paying attention Â
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."Â Sir Terry Pratchett
Not unreasonable at all @Rubytoo. I had a 'no mask' chancer thumping on the door recently [that alone made me annoyed] and when I opened it, he said he was a tree surgeon [my *rse] and asked if I wanted the conifer 'done'. My stock answer to these people is 'I don't do business on my front doorstep'. After saying- No, to whatever they're asking.Â
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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If they want to charge the recipient at the other end,they can refuse to accept it but they will at least know you tried😉
1st class X 2 = £1.52 (not enough)
1st class X 3 = £2.28 (too much)
in any case if the Royal Mail want my business and offer an on-line service.........
I've never stuck an air mail sticker on, our postie says it’s not necessary.
He will take all my letters and parcels. Â
I answered to a polite gentleman asking if we wanted some kind of home improvement green molluscs.
 Molluscs? Think B word but a bit like molluscs.
He was on our step with no mask. I answered the door but had to back away to be the recommended distance.
You might think get over it already.
I am just the right side of sixty with asthma and a little paranoid and afraid.
Why do these people and organizations think it is okay.
Look at me you Fcuk wits. I am white haired, wrinkly with glasses and obviously old-er.
If I venture out I take and wear a mask. It is rare because I believe in protecting our NHS. So they can deal with what is going on.
I am not curmudgeonly I am bladdy furiously pig sick of it.
@Rubytoo same problem with an internet technician. Â
I had about 10 overseas Christmas cards to send so took them in to the PO around 3 weeks ago, buying the special Christmas stamps. I then posted them last week.
Thanks.
Glad to not feel unreasonable
I am living a quiet and frugal existence and don't need badly designed websites just now!
I didn't know about the Air Mail stickers either, I usually use the self service machine in the Post Office in town and just stick on whatever it spews out - clearly not been paying attention
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After saying- No, to whatever they're asking.Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...