"Bike Post" Stamp

HughMann said:

I am in the habbit of delivering letters that I write for any local
addresses while out bike riding. A good way to give some purpose to a
ride and to learn new streets and find places you never knew existed.

Sounds like a nice personal thing to do, however, I don't think you are
legally allowed to deliver your own mail.

Theo

quote='Theo Bekkers'HughMann said:

I am in the habbit of delivering letters that I write for any local
addresses while out bike riding. A good way to give some purpose to a
ride and to learn new streets and find places you never knew existed.

Sounds like a nice personal thing to do, however, I don't think you are
legally allowed to deliver your own mail.
[/QUOTE]

Cite? I find it very difficult to believe that only the Post Office can deliver mail. What about all that junk mail that gets dumped in my letter box almost daily? That's mail.

Do a skid on the back of the envelope?
Drips of sweat on the front?
Make it look like it got rained on & grit on grime all over it?
Insert an empty powerbar packet or banana peel in there too?

EuanB said:

Theo Bekkers Wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Sounds like a nice personal thing to do, however, I don't think you
are
legally allowed to deliver your own mail.

Quoted message said:

Cite? I find it very difficult to believe that only the Post Office
can deliver mail. What about all that junk mail that gets dumped in
my letter box almost daily? That's mail.

Depends on where you live. in ACT
"What to do if you get unwanted junk mail.

If you have a â?~no junk mailâ?T sticker on your letterbox and still receive
advertising material that you donâ?Tt want, you can contact the Distribution
Standards Board on 1800 676 136 .

Non-commercial material can still be delivered if this action is taken. This
includes newspapers, government information, election information, police,
church or school items, Neighbourhood Watch and any items that are
personally addressed or mailed.

They will take action on your behalf if it relates to any printed material
of a commercial nature, such as store catalogues, fast food leaflets,
coupons, supermarket handbills, real estate, carpet cleaning, handyman
flyers and so on."

Similar rules in NSW.

See here http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/resources/admaterial.pdf This is about
five years old. Note that once you tell an organisation (such as K-Mart)
that you don't want their junk, they are breaking the law if their $1 per
100 delivery person mistakenly puts another in your letterbox. :-)

As it is a pdf I can't paste from it but read what the US Postal Service
does. Takes the Junk Mail from your box back to the post office and then
charges the source whatever postage should have been paid. ROTFL.

Theo

Marx SS said:

Do a skid on the back of the envelope?
Drips of sweat on the front?
Make it look like it got rained on & grit on grime all over it?
Insert an empty powerbar packet or banana peel in there too?

Nah just dab it on the chainring. Non-commercial mail is fine, we used to stuff like community notices, neighbourhood watch etc.

On 2006-02-03, EuanB (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Theo Bekkers said:

HughMann said:

I am in the habbit of delivering letters that I write for any local
addresses while out bike riding. A good way to give some purpose to

a

Quoted message said:

ride and to learn new streets and find places you never knew

existed.

Sounds like a nice personal thing to do, however, I don't think you
are
legally allowed to deliver your own mail.

Cite? I find it very difficult to believe that only the Post Office
can deliver mail. What about all that junk mail that gets dumped in my
letter box almost daily? That's mail.

In America, it is illegal for non USPS to put anything in the letter
box, partly because the letter box is used for you to dump your mail
in, to be delivered (apparently, they don't have post boxes).

It's probably illegal for a private company here to use the letter
boxes (It's an Aust Post monopoly), but hand delivery? I couldn't
beleive we'd be that beuarocratic, but it's possible.

--
TimC
Never trust a man who can count to 1,023 on his fingers.

HughMann said:

I am in the habbit of delivering letters that I write for any local
addresses while out bike riding. A good way to give some purpose to a
ride and to learn new streets and find places you never knew existed.

Know its dangerous,

Why is it dangerous? What's dangerous about exploring the city on a
pushbike?

Theo Bekkers said:

As it is a pdf I can't paste from it but read what the US Postal Service
does. Takes the Junk Mail from your box back to the post office and then
charges the source whatever postage should have been paid. ROTFL.

When I had a PO Box, Australia Post infested it with junk mail AND paid no postage.
So I put it through the mail slot.
Maybe I should have used the express post, would that cost them more?
I was already getting the same [censored] at home.

Andre

Theo Bekkers said:

I don't think you are legally allowed to deliver your own
mail.

That doesn't sound right. One of our kids in in the high school
band, and the parents of the band members hand-deliver all of
the school's newsletters. In return, the band gets the money
which the (ACT government) school would otherwise have spent on
poatage.

I think my wife and I are the only parents who deliver our quota
of (individually addressed) newsletters by bicycle. So in
general the process is a waste of resources (lots of driving to
leterboxes which Aust Post goes past anyway).

Thanks to this thread, I'm now thinking of getting a "Delivered
by non-polluting bicycle" rubber stamp made up.

John

HughMann said:

So, anyone got any ideas on a design for a "Bike Post" stamp to let the
receiver know that the letter was delivered by bike.

At one stage, you could buy a 20x40mm rubber stamp that had a road bike
on it with "Ride Bicycles" underneath it. It worked perfectly well when
I did that sort of stuff.

I could stamp it and scan it and put it up somewhere if you want to see it.

Terry Collins said:

At one stage, you could buy a 20x40mm rubber stamp that had a road bike
on it with "Ride Bicycles" underneath it. It worked perfectly well when
I did that sort of stuff.

I could stamp it and scan it and put it up somewhere if you want to see it.

John said:

Thanks to this thread, I'm now thinking of getting a "Delivered
by non-polluting bicycle" rubber stamp made up..

Yes thats the idea but I thought that we might be able to collectively design something new and simple. Maybe it needs more thought or the concept hasnt captured enough imaginations.

Obviously all the smart ass comments are from people who are as artistically gifted as I am!

Cheers
Hugh ...... failed finger painting

HughMann said:

So, anyone got any ideas on a design for a "Bike Post" stamp to let the receiver know that the letter was delivered by bike.

Cheers
Hugh

How about a rubber stamp? No paper or printing.

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How about a rubber stamp? No paper or printing.

That was one of my initial thoughts, but then everyone has to pay $20 to create a stamp. My
preference at the moment is a logo that you can print on addressing labels with a laser printer, as
is common in many offices.

I've taken the bicycle lane logo and converted the aspect ratio back to normal. I think it needs
some text for explanation. "Par avion" means "by air". Would "par bicyclette" be correct French?
Or just stick with the Queen's English and use "by bicycle".

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Quoted message said:

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Quoted message said:

How about a rubber stamp? No paper or printing.

That was one of my initial thoughts, but then everyone has to pay $20 to
create a stamp. My preference at the moment is a logo that you can print
on addressing labels with a laser printer, as is common in many offices.

I've taken the bicycle lane logo and converted the aspect ratio back to
normal. I think it needs some text for explanation. "Par avion" means
"by air". Would "par bicyclette" be correct French? Or just stick with
the Queen's English and use "by bicycle".

I like "Par Bicyclette".It needs a heavily stylised bike on ti as well in
the same way that the old "Par Avion" stamps/envelopes had stlised wings on
them.s

Russell Lang said:

I've taken the bicycle lane logo and converted the aspect ratio back to normal. I think it needs
some text for explanation. "Par avion" means "by air". Would "par bicyclette" be correct French?
Or just stick with the Queen's English and use "by bicycle".

Wouldn't it be "par velo".

DaveB

quote='DaveB'Russell Lang said:

I've taken the bicycle lane logo and converted the aspect ratio back to normal. I think it needs
some text for explanation. "Par avion" means "by air". Would "par bicyclette" be correct French?
Or just stick with the Queen's English and use "by bicycle".

Wouldn't it be "par velo".

DaveB[/QUOTE]
Yes, I just asked my French colleague and she said "par vélo".
Note the acute accent over the e.
Don't trust google to translate "by air" correctly :-)

The thing you are riding is a "bicyclette", but you travel "par vélo".
It's like the difference between "by air" or "by plane".
We use "by air" and can't explain why.

For the language challenged, we could put both on the sticker.
par vélo
by bicycle

Something like this

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::dom:: said:

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Thanks Dom, that sure is sweet! This thread is making me reconsider a idea I had last year for YarraBUG membership/newsletters, ie: via bike mail within the local area. 🙂

cfsmtb said:

Thanks Dom, that sure is sweet! This thread is making me reconsider a idea I had last year for YarraBUG membership/newsletters, ie: via bike mail within the local area. 🙂

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