Raspberry Pi - It's a Stamp

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Royal Mail has issued a series of stamps celebrating British Engineering which includes the Raspberry Pi.

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One of the greatest inventions, IMHO of the 21st Century. I have 2 of them sitting next to me, one with a touch-screen on it, one with HiFi stereo hat. And a Pi Zero running the front-door camera. About the only thing comparable in terms of ready computability is the Arduino, but being Italian, I don't think it's a major priority for the Royal Mail.

Please don't tell me that £1.50 is standard First Class postage, though. The USA just went up to 50¢.

Incidentally, they've now managed to produce superconductors that operate at 40°F/4°C. Should be about good for Brighton in August. Now if they can just come up with a way to produce the material without exerting so much pressure that diamond anvils won't crack.

The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.

You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.

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Tim Holloway wrote:. . . Please don't tell me that £1.50 is standard First Class postage, though. . . .

No, it's 70p. Went up considerably about 7 years ago. It is one of the more expensive postal services now.

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Campbell Ritchie wrote:

Tim Holloway wrote:. . . Please don't tell me that £1.50 is standard First Class postage, though. . . .

No, it's 70p. Went up considerably about 7 years ago. It is one of the more expensive postal services now.

They privatised the Post, didn't they?

I don't suppose that they still do multiple deliveries per day like in Victorian times?

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Tim Holloway wrote:. . . They privatised the Post, didn't they?

Yes

I don't suppose that they still do multiple deliveries per day like in Victorian times?

We had multiple deliveries when I was young; they stopped them a couple of decades ago. The service is nothing like what it used to be,

Did you see how Paul cut 87% off of his electric heat bill with 82 watts of micro heaters?