On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:53:16 +0100, Mark wrote:
So they've designed a broken system and then dropped the broken pieces
on the general public. I can't see how this is any better than a book of
stamps.

You have a package - a present maybe. It's getting close to the last
collection for the day. You have a book of first class stamps, but the
postage value required for your package isn't an integral number of
32p multiples.

You can:

- use yout first class stamps and subsidise Royal Mail the difference
- take a trip to your local post office and queue
- print your own stamp to the correct value

Which requires you to know the precise weight of your present in order to
figure out postage costs, surely, even with the new charging system? So
for anything other than a letter that's obvously within single first class
rules, surely a trip to the post office is needed anyway to make sure that
the correct postage is put on the item?

Of course if RM issued every individual with a set of calibrated scales
(and paid for their maintenance) there wouldn't be a problem :-)