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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #30 on: July 06, 2021, 12:11:58 PM »

I love my GB plate  :first



A UK plate with the club logo would make a good shop item ???
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #31 on: July 06, 2021, 05:11:22 PM »

Stop it Alan!

Otherwise you'll get us all doing it. :-X
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #32 on: July 07, 2021, 10:19:21 AM »

The whole idea of UK stickers sounds like another mad idea from the man in no10. If it's not internationally recognised then Monsieur Gendarme will declare the UK sticker invalid and frog march you off to the nearest ATM to fine you for not displaying the "correct" GB sticker.

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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #33 on: July 07, 2021, 10:26:21 AM »

If it's not internationally recognised

The whole point is that the government have asked the UN to recognise 'UK' instead of 'GB' from September this year.
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #34 on: July 07, 2021, 11:34:30 AM »

The UK government have applied to the United Nations to have "UK" recognised as the vehicle identifier for when we venture abroad in our cars.
(Forget about the political reasons behind this - there's nothing you can post or do on this forum to change that. Write to your MPs.)

I think the UN are obliged to recognise the change of our designation.
Countries come and go, they change their names - e.g. North Macedonia.
Once a country is recognised by the UN, that's it.
Precedence has been set and if the UK government apply for a name change then it will happen.

What people need to do is protest and make sure the UK gov don't apply, change their minds.

Meanwhile the sticker and plate makers will be thinking it's Christmas come early.

One is minded of James Bond's Aston Martin with the revolving number plates.
Maybe something like that for the national identifier ???
Like the destination board on the front of a bus.

Any prudent traveller will be checking before they leave our shores as to what paper work and things they need to take with them. The advice is changing all the time and this name change is but one possible.


Mind how you go..... and get writing your letters
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #35 on: July 07, 2021, 11:47:57 AM »

Reminds me of the change by stealth they made to the service I work with.

Once we were Her Majesty's Coastguard (and officially we still are)

But now when you call in to our ops room all you get is "UK Coastguard" and all our vehicles have dropped the HM bit on the logos.

Going the same way as when HM Customs ended up as Border Farce  :P
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #36 on: July 07, 2021, 12:07:49 PM »

Not just the people you work for ^^^

It happens all the time. Organisations are initialised and then gain more letters to their name.

Or - when there's a cock-up, change the name - e.g. Calder Hall - Winscale -  Sellafield and so on  :shakeinghead

Logos change, letter headings, Names on the vehicle fleet.
All good business for stationers and sign makers.

The Devil makes work for idle hands :shakeinghead

The analogy is shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.

All these "jobsworths" should be sorting the real problems of the day.
No - let's change our name and that will make things better.

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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #37 on: July 07, 2021, 01:20:39 PM »

Remember Royal Mail becoming Consignia in 2001. Cost £2 million.
The following year they changed it back again at probably the same cost :stars
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #38 on: July 07, 2021, 05:13:58 PM »

I am so incredibly enraged over this, I shall...

I shall.....


Go and make a cup of tea and watch the football. :coffee
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #39 on: July 07, 2021, 07:38:53 PM »

Remember Royal Mail becoming Consignia in 2001. Cost £2 million.
The following year they changed it back again at probably the same cost :stars

Only lost £2 million - someone goofed up there, it should have cost a lot more.

In fact the Post Office is but one example of ineptitude (and dishonesty).

It's a fact that emails are ousting the sending of "old fashioned" letters and you can do more on the internet in paying bills and the like.
And yet we see the rise of Amazon and online shopping - where stuff is delivered to your door by a white van.

The Post Office (I still think of them as that) have a whole fleet nationwide of red vans which can/could deliver to every address in Great Britain and Northern Ireland the UK.

What a loss of a business opportunity  :thud

Posting as an ex postman  :postman_pat
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #40 on: July 07, 2021, 08:32:57 PM »

The PO seem to have finally got their act together on that one. Our friendly  postie now collects parcels from the house for 70p. Under 2kg PO are still competitive on parcels. Since they closed the local Post Office, it now costs me £5 in fuel to visit the nearest one.
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #41 on: July 07, 2021, 08:42:33 PM »

The Post Office (I still think of them as that) have a whole fleet nationwide of red vans which can/could deliver to every address in Great Britain and Northern Ireland the UK.

What a loss of a business opportunity  :thud

Posting as an ex postman  :postman_pat

Quite a few things I order on Amazon are delivered by my Royal Mail postie in a red van - not all by any means and not the next day stuff but a bit.

I prefer it as he does actually know how to find the house unlike half the delivery firms…………
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #42 on: July 07, 2021, 08:44:21 PM »

Only lost £2 million - someone goofed up there, it should have cost a lot more.

In fact the Post Office is but one example of ineptitude (and dishonesty).

It's a fact that emails are ousting the sending of "old fashioned" letters and you can do more on the internet in paying bills and the like.
And yet we see the rise of Amazon and online shopping - where stuff is delivered to your door by a white van.

The Post Office (I still think of them as that) have a whole fleet nationwide of red vans which can/could deliver to every address in Great Britain and Northern Ireland the UK.

What a loss of a business opportunity  :thud

Posting as an ex postman  :postman_pat

Letting commercial operators take on parcel delivery, an area that can make a decent profit was a very deliberate act aiming to cripple the public service Post Office, leaving it to soldier on without the profitable business but still be lumbered with requirement to deliver to every address. The nonsense now is that we can get 3 or more courier vans a day turning up, usually very sparsely loaded. The inefficiency is vast - but you and I are paying for it so the shareholders of DHL, Hermes and the rest turn a profit.  As you say Wittsend, that one red van could do the job...
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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #43 on: July 07, 2021, 09:15:44 PM »

It's a bit unfair to compare the Royal Mail to other more modern operators. Generations of labour laws and union activity mean that it is very expensive to employ a Postie, whereas Amazon manipulate 'the system' to keep their staff costs very very low. So the Royal Mail ultimately cannot compete as the playing field is far from level!

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Re: GB stickers to be replaced by UK
« Reply #44 on: July 07, 2021, 09:36:02 PM »

There's some truth in that - heads should have been banged together to get some common sense into them.

Look how they make posties wear shorts  :thud
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