Royal Mail Parcel Collect is the title - yet it is for letters too

The labels are 6 inches by 4 inches, so fine for a DL envelope.

“The Postman Always Rings Twice” ?

www.imdb.com/title/tt0082934/

Well that boat has sailed already.

Message deleted by Gransnet. Here's a link to our Talk guidelines.

Who knows. Some people might have user experiences they would like to mention.

So this thread can continue on-topic

Is there really much (anything) more to say?

I am reliably informed that moving posts in that way is not possible.

I have now started a thread for the posts that are off-topic to the title of this thread so that discussion may continue on-topic there and perhaps reach a wider audience too.

www.gransnet.com/forums/chat/1310873-Feeling-strange-in-a-supermarket-aisle-and-related-matters

It would be good if GNHQ were able to move the off-topic posts from this thread into that thread please, while keeping their sequence nd timestamps, but I don't know if that is possible.

So this thread can continue on-topic.

If someone goes to a doctor and is trying to describe to the doctor the feeling that overwhelmed them in the supermarket aisle, how is that conveyed?
In words

If you tried your sounds on the doctor he wouldn't have a clue what you meant.

MawtheMerrier wrote Onomatopoeia is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle ).

Yes, but alhough part of the language now, some devised before any of us were born, they are just ways of conveying a meaning in language, not an actual precise representation if the original sound. At one time they were new to the way people expressed concepts.

If someone goes to a doctor and is trying to describe to the doctor the feeling that overwhelmed them in the supermarket aisle, how is that conveyed?

The relevance of that rather escapes me. 'Flogging a dead horse' is a well-known saying, not to be taken literally. I doubt any of us would flog a horse, dead or alive.

I don't mistreat animals.

I respect their lives.

Well, it is only like if somebody tastes something and says it tasted ugh
Whereas some people say Urgh. Some Eurgh. And some simply ???????

Well, it is only like if somebody tastes something and says it tasted ugh.

It is trying to express a feeling using language. The three syllables sort of conveying a feeling of becoming disorientated but not actually being in motion.

Oh no! Don’t say the horse thing Maw!

Onomatopoeia is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle ).
Your personal transcription of a feeling is yours alone as the feeling is unique to you, so only you can replicate what it sounds like to you.
And that’s not even allowing for regional dialect or accent.

So really just nitpicking - possibly an attempt to resuscitate a dying thread? But even dead horses eventually get a rest from being flogged.

Anyway, this was supposed to be about Royal Mail Click and Drop or Collect.
Time to draw a line.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7J7HOP8II

Not a gemstone, that's for sure. Nor is it a 'really innovative idea'. I don't think this particular one will progress beyond the ether. And I would strongly suggest you don't say it out loud within anyone's hearing.

Hi ixion

I had just written a reply to you mentioning that maximum envelope size is stated, but not a minimum size, and thanking you for the suggestion about contacting them.

Alas, it got lost.

Anyway, thank you for replying and thank you for your suggestion.

ixion wrote I think StarDreamer that, on this occasion, You can NOT be serious.Yes?

Actually I was being serious. I tried saying both out loud and the version by MawtheMerrier sounded like a clinical term for reporting what the patient experienced, but my version with the -owm- in the middle syllable is what is experienced at the time. Sort of whereas onomatopoeia is for sounds heard, yet this is for feelings felt.

I know that really innovative ideas are often ridiculed by many - laugh at the geek - and sometimes what the geek outputs is rubble but sometimes it is a gemstone.

So, rubble or gemstone? It could just be rubbish, rejected, yet it could possibly resonate with some people and be a regular word in a few years time. If progress means me being ridiculed then c'est la vie.

Yes, please explain what these peculiar sounds mean. I can't call them 'words' because they're not. I have never heard a conscious person, possessed of their faculties, uttering such strange sounds.

StarDreamer

MawtheMerrier

yee-ohm-uh
I've tried saying it out loud and am still none the wiser.
Please explain OP

I hope you don't mind me mentioning it, yet actually it is yee-owm-uh, which sounds quite different from what you put.

I think StarDreamer that, on this occasion, You can NOT be serious.
Yes?

StarDreamer

MawtheMerrier

yee-ohm-uh
I've tried saying it out loud and am still none the wiser.
Please explain OP

I hope you don't mind me mentioning it, yet actually it is yee-owm-uh, which sounds quite different from what you put.

Now that is just being silly.
Yowma/yohma/yooma/yamma - it’s all gobbledegook.

You could write the recipient's name and address in as small size as is practicable, aligning it as close to the left edge of your envelope as possible.
This would give your Post Person the best chance to affix the label. They may be obliged to wrap the label round the said envelope. After all, they can hardly refuse to handle it, can they?

Does the Click and Drop page have any indication of envelope size restrictions?
Have you tried their 'Contact us' option?

Hi MawtheMerrier Do you want to start the new thread or would you rather I, or someone else, does?

MawtheMerrier

yee-ohm-uh
I've tried saying it out loud and am still none the wiser.
Please explain OP

I hope you don't mind me mentioning it, yet actually it is yee-owm-uh, which sounds quite different from what you put.