fakearms123 wrote: » Have ye tried to google it?
Google Gold wrote: » Have a super-day all.
Google Gold wrote: » Have it sorted now.I'll leave you with a good joke i think. The fellow stormed into the postmaster's office in a fury. "I've been getting threatening letters in the mail for months and I want them stopped." "Of course," said the postmaster. "Sending threatening letters through the mail is a federal offense. Do you know who's sending them?" "Yes," shouted the man. "It's those idiots down at the Internal Revenue Service."
Hookah wrote: » I remember working as a postman once, looking for an address to deliver a Möbius strip, but I kept going round in circles.
Donny5 wrote: » This is the real joke fail. A Möbius strip only has one side, so it would be trivial, easier even than a normal looped strip, to find the address, as there would be no reverse side to check.
stupidusername wrote: » what the frick? is boards owned by AnPost or something?
ElizabethDante wrote: » I work as a PO clerk during the summer while not studying Fine Art (only as a way to get money not a life choice). post costs depends on the size and weight of the envelope/ package a standard small envelope within ireland is a 55c stamp an a4 flat envelope is 95c stamp the prices for thicker packages depend on weight and length and width if it is a package rather then a flat envelope you are sending and want to guarrantee its survival through the irish post system i recommend you pop into your local PO office if it is a small flat envelope (mothers day card) but you have put lets say a chocolate bar in it the 55c should be grand ! as long as its still under 100g hope that was a bit of help ! im new here so im just testing the posting grounds!
Hookah wrote: » I'm not sure which is nerdier. Me for making up the joke in the first place, or you for picking it apart. Would a Möbius band have sufficed?
Degag wrote: » Don't An Post have to deliver post even if you have the wrong stamp on or even no stamp at all?
questionmark? wrote: » WTF is going on here Thought I clicked into after hours not fecking www.badpostaljokesandanalysis.ie
Donny5 wrote: » An easily fooled postman might go in circles looking for the address on an ordinary non-Möbius band, but such a scenario would not be possible with a Möbius band, thus undermining the basis of your joke.
Hookah wrote: » But if the address was on the opposite side of the band on which the imaginary postman is making his deliveries, would this cause sufficient confusion to have the postman travelling in circles on that side of the band on which the address doesn't exist?
Donny5 wrote: » I think you're mixing up a Möbius strip with something else. A Möbius strip only has one side.
Aishae wrote: » actually - come to think of it, i dont know if postmen are allowed to take cash so maybe you HAVE to collect any underpaid post at the sorting office or wherever the postie works out of.
Hookah wrote: » If I made one from a strip of paper, that strip has 2 sides. It is a 3 dimensional shape.
Donny5 wrote: » No, you are wrong. A Möbius strip has only one side and that is one of its defining features. If you make a Möbius strip from a length of paper, then try to draw a line down the middle of one side, this will become readily apparent.
Hookah wrote: » Really?
Hookah wrote: » How many sides on a strip of paper?
Hookah wrote: » If I twist it into a mobius strip, how many sides does it have now?
Hookah wrote: » Ok. What if the address was on the edge of the strip? The second side, so to speak?
Donny5 wrote: » Well, if you're talking about looking for the written address on an envelope shaped as a Möbius strip, then the boundary edge would be too narrow, as it would be the same width as the boundary edge of an ordinary envelope. If you mean that the postman's delivery route was on a hypothetical neighbourhood shaped as a Möbius strip, and this hypothetical neighbourhood's boundary edge also contained addresses where the postman may have to deliver, then the postman would have to walk both seperately, once around the surface and once around the single boundary edge. This would be compared to a postman working on a similar hypothetical neighbourhood that was an ordinary non-Möbius strip, who would have two surfaces and two boundary edges to walk. In either case, there is no suitable premise for the original joke.
