grr, argh (calling birds)

[fox]

had a whole day of errandy things, including purchase of stamps for new year's cards.  got all the way home before i realized, dammit, most of my cards are square, and therefore need extra postage.

so i'll be out again before the close of business, oh yes.

Comments

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

i get the extra postage -- there must be a machine that could sort the square envelopes as well as the rectangular ones, but replacing them in every post office would be mad expensive and drive everyone's postage up, instead of just those of us sending the square-shaped things. i hear you on the lack of appropriate stamp, though. i'm going to have to go get ten-cent and two-cent stamps, and rar.

[sowilo.livejournal.com]

the thing that I don't get is that the machine can sort larger rectangular envelopes of varying dimensions, so why won't it sort a square evelope?

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

because (as i understand it) when the sides are different lengths, it can orient them properly and then line up the top right corners of each one for cancelling; but when the sides are all the same length, all the corners line up no matter which way the things are oriented.

[sowilo.livejournal.com]

oh, that's interesting. good to know.