On 2012-10-06, MB wrote:

The Americans do seem generally to be used to sending a lot by courier
when we would just put in the post. Tending to happen in the UK also
even though the Royal Mail / Parcelforce often give a better service and
of course do not charge extra to send further. There has been a big
campaign in the North of Scotland about companies charging extra for
many postcode areas.

Digi-Key sent me (in NZ) a postcard by royal mail (from UK) the other day.
if it's still in the waste bassket on monday it'll check to see if it's a
preferred spelling thing (eg: "catalog" vs "catalogue") or perhaps it was
just cheaper to do it that way.

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