The Right To Bear Arms in the US Constitution isn't quite what it seems apparently - I believe Bill Bryson put this idea to bed quite a few years ago. Sadly, the Gun(g) Ho lot remain unconvinced.
On a different and non-curmudgeonly topic; postage times have had an abrupt turnaround. I had a parcel dispatched yesterday second class, tracking said it would arrive tomorrow but it came this morning instead. I picked the slowest, cheapest delivery for another parcel and it came before the most expensive would have been due, and I ordered something from China that should have taken three to four weeks and it arrived within a week.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Talking of postage, my OH bought some stamps from the PO in our nearest town today (from the machine, as that’s how they expect you to get them in that PO), and they’ve dispensed stamps without bar codes. I thought bar codes were compulsory after Jan 31st, and that stamps without wouldn’t be able to be used, so now we have 12 second class stamps dispensed from their machine without bar codes on them to use up within 6 days. I know you can “trade” them in, but my gripe is, why is their machine still dispensing stamps without a bar code on them, and we now have the hassle of exchanging them.
Update. I’ve checked on line, which I know, I should have done before posting here, and it looks as if they’ve extended the date to 31st July 2023, so that solves that. I wonder why they’ve changed it?
@Red Maple, because there was such an outcry against the Jan 31st (even though Royal Mail did announce it a year ago, so you'd think folks would have got the message). They got stick last week as well because their newspaper ads were still quoting the Jan date so people were getting confused.
When I went to a local shopping street this morning, I walked past a corner which had a strong smell of gas so I asked in my nearby salon about it. They said the installers of internet fibre had hit the gas main and the leak had been reported by several people a WEEK ago but nothing had been done! When I got home I rang the National Gas Leak helpline, reported it and was told they would have an engineer out within the hour. I hope they did and will check tomorrow. It's a very busy shopping street with lots of car parking and passing traffic, pedestrians etc and it's freezing weather. I'll have their guts for garters if anything nasty happens.
The Right To Bear Arms in the US Constitution isn't quite what it seems apparently - I believe Bill Bryson put this idea to bed quite a few years ago. Sadly, the Gun(g) Ho lot remain unconvinced.
As the right to bear arms was added to the US constitution very early on, surely there should only be the right to bear the type of arms available at that time. That would pretty much be muzzle loading long rifles, and flintlock pistols.
When the date of change for stamps was announced, I'm pretty sure that the intention was that stamps could be exchanged at Post Offices. That was changed to on-line forms only and having to send them to a central location for processing. That didn't go well.
I had quite a lot of non-barcoded stamps so I sent them off, together with some from my mother. It took just over two weeks for the new ones to arrive. Not too bad really. Shame you can't just swap them at the post office though.
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They got stick last week as well because their newspaper ads were still quoting the Jan date so people were getting confused.
When I went to a local shopping street this morning, I walked past a corner which had a strong smell of gas so I asked in my nearby salon about it. They said the installers of internet fibre had hit the gas main and the leak had been reported by several people a WEEK ago but nothing had been done! When I got home I rang the National Gas Leak helpline, reported it and was told they would have an engineer out within the hour. I hope they did and will check tomorrow. It's a very busy shopping street with lots of car parking and passing traffic, pedestrians etc and it's freezing weather. I'll have their guts for garters if anything nasty happens.
As the right to bear arms was added to the US constitution very early on, surely there should only be the right to bear the type of arms available at that time. That would pretty much be muzzle loading long rifles, and flintlock pistols.