[Herman Melville]

Taken on my London walk this morning:

This one has a friend:




With Post Office Tower visible in background:

[Herman Melville]

Very wonky. It actually is at the wrong angle:






That's it! The seventh one actually had a letter stuck in it.

[RD]

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Told you GIMP was good.

[Herman Melville]

What's more spooky is that the taxi seems to have moved in your version.

[Karen W.]

really...looks the same to me but the picture has been cropped and made closer up with the gimp...

[Herman Melville]

really...looks the same to me but the picture has been cropped and made closer up with the gimp...

I know it's just an optical illusion from the cropping but on first glance I thought the taxi was driving away.

[Karen W.]

Yes I could see that if you were just quickly scanning...  [][]

[RD]

really...looks the same to me but the picture has been cropped and made closer up with the gimp...

I know it's just an optical illusion from the cropping but on first glance I thought the taxi was driving away.

I stretched the picture into a sort of keystone (trapezoid) shape to correct the vertical lines,
and cropped a rectangle out of this keystone.

This stretching distortion has changed the proportions / positions of objects in the scene.

[Karen W.]

The box no longer looks like the leaning tower of Pisa!

[JnA]

What is franked mail? I'm assuming it's not a person named frank

[neilep]

Brill photos Herman...very very niiiiice indeed !!

[neilep]

What is franked mail? I'm assuming it's not a person named frank

On wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franked_mail

[JnA]

Yes, I read that before I asked the question.. but still don't understand why it warrants it's own box.










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[Herman Melville]

Brill photos Herman...very very niiiiice indeed !!

Thanks. I hope you'll add to this thread: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=24173.0

[ukmicky]

Yes, I read that before I asked the question.. but still don't understand why it warrants it's own box.

Many reasons

Meter mail or its other name franked mail is for business customers and is provided at a reduced rate than the 1st & 2nd class stamps available to the public.
The business customers have machines that puts a printed impression on the envelope,this allows the royalmail to reduce the costs which are passed back to the customer.

1st and 2nd class Franked mail is also separated by the customer and placed in separate pouches which reduces its processing time again reducing costs.
 
Normal post boxes are also very old and not of a design that allows the use of pouches without blocking up and therefore boxes are supplied designed for the purpose.
Business post is also keep separate as businesses post more than your average member of the public and would fill up all of the boxes leaving no where for you and i to post are letters.

Franked mail is also sorted differently going through different machines than stamped mail.

Sometimes i wish i didn't know all this information.

[Make it Lady]

When I use GIMPs I often feel wonky afterwards. My whipping arm often shakes too.

[JnA]

thanks ukmicky.. cost saving stuff.. I might talk to Aust post about that..




meh probably not