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raddevus wrote: the postal service had gravitas and packages and letters sent through it were something very important
Firstly, bonus points for using the word gravitas. It's nice to see someone else with a vocabulary of more than 100 words.
USPS appears to be sloooowly catching up to its competitors when it comes to tangential services like delivery tracking. It's only been in the last few years that you could even ask for them to confirm deliveries, unless you paid an exhorbitant fee for the service. For them to actually know where a given package is located at any time requires infrastructure that they don't have the capital to put in place all at once. Federal Express had the advantage of inventing package tracking and making it a customer-demanded product feature.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Flying officer's incomplete oath is the main concern (5)
My bad, I posted in wrong forum
cheers,
Super
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FOCUS
Flying officer = FO
Incomplete oath = CUS(S)
Cause for concern = Dutch rock bands.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Oh! 
That's better than mine ...
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PeejayAdams wrote: Cause for concern = Dutch rock bands.
I hope it was in sarcastic tone cos they are good actually ( before the reunion era)
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In fairness, they had there moments.
The only other Dutch band I can think of off the top of my head is Golden Earring who only had one song. Oh, and 2 Unlimited? Or where they Belgian?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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And Within Temptation[^] - the lead singer has a wonderful voice!
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Oh Griff.......
How can you forget
- Vandenberg
- Focus
- Shocking Blue
- Brainbox
- The Gathering
- 24 7
- Two Brothers on the fourth floor
- Eddie Van Halen
- Armin van Buuren
- Tiesto
- AfroJack
- Fedde le Grand
........and many more. and yes : 2Unlimited (Ray and Anita) are soooo Dutch
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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AORTA?
RA for Royal Airforce, mixed with OTA from OATH?
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nice try though .
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Super
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That's like telling the last runner in the school egg and spoon race that he "tried hard anyway"! 
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So, you expected a participation trophy? 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Don't get me started!
You can tell that load of old rubbish was dreamt up by someone whose kid was a slow runner...
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@super
You won on Friday, remember?
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Honestly I posted it at 10:00 AM...Weird its missing
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Quote: My bad, I posted in wrong forum
It's a Monday ...
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I assume the clue is little tough but I am not sure because Cryptic has always been enigma. When I feel its easy, it end up being tough and vice versa
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I need a government form, so I rang the helpline.
"For such-and-such, press one" - no other options, so I push it.
It rings, it's answered: "Good morning, you are through to BLAH, my name is BLAH, how can I help you?"
"I need a BLAH, please"
"Postcode?"
"BLAH, house number BLAH"
"And your name?"
"BLAH."
"Thank you - it'll be with you in three to five days. Is there anything else I can help with?"
"No, that's all thank you."
"Then thank you for calling, and have a good day. Bye!"
"Bye!"
Total time, about a minute.
An efficient and helpful government? On a Monday?
That's got to be one the signs of the apocalypse, hasn't it?
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1) This was only the overture. Hold your praise until after the first act. Better yet, wait for the curtain.
2) What a strange coincidence that everybody's name is BLAH and that's even exactly what you wanted.
3) They need less than a minute now to retrieve all information they have on you and research your ancestors back for 50 generations, just in case.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Thank you - it'll be with you in three to five days.
You will be in shock
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An efficient and helpful government? Already out from EU? 
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The EU was no problem after our government bought it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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That script could easily be from a "ring a partner" service. 
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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OriginalGriff wrote: it'll be with you in three to five days
They can't just email it to you? 
Why isn't it online in the first place?
The apocalypse isn't upon us, they just needed about a 100 years to streamline the manual and snail mail process.
They're still 20 years behind in the digital age though 
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The form itself is online as a PDF - but it has to be completed on paper, and sent in with supporting original documents, not scans or copies.
The "get them to post it to you" version includes a pre-paid envelope with the address - and the address bit is completely missing from the online version
Let's not expect too much of a government department on a Monday...
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