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Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Sep 28, 2011, 9:21:44 AM9/28/11
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> ANSI? Is that something like baseball that you use for standards
> over there?
>
> The international standards body is ISO.
Psst! You've stepped onto ground that's about to give way under you.
Hint: What is the official full standard number for "Data elements and
interchange formats – Information interchange – Representation of dates
and times" in the United Kingdom?
> over there?
>
> The international standards body is ISO.
Psst! You've stepped onto ground that's about to give way under you.
Hint: What is the official full standard number for "Data elements and
interchange formats – Information interchange – Representation of dates
and times" in the United Kingdom?
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Sep 29, 2011, 6:20:01 AM9/29/11
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> I do wonder, however, how inefficient it is that the US Embassy in
> London buys US letter paper from somewhere (ships it from the USA?)
> but has to deal with incoming correspondence on European paper.
Do you know that this actually happens?
> London buys US letter paper from somewhere (ships it from the USA?)
> but has to deal with incoming correspondence on European paper.
Do you know that this actually happens?
Adam Funk
Sep 29, 2011, 12:59:38 PM9/29/11
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I don't know where they get it from. Most of their incoming UK
correspondence (except from a few other embassies, I suppose) must be
on A4 and other DIN ISO sizes, because no-one else in the UK uses the
US sizes. (OK, I've read in this thread that you can in fact buy US
paper in the UK, but I've never seen it for sale, and I like office
supplies.)
--
Oh, I am just a student, sir, and I only want to learn
But it's hard to read through the rising smoke
of the books that you want to burn
[Phil Ochs]
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Sep 30, 2011, 7:24:41 AM9/30/11
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>>> I do wonder, however, how inefficient it is that the US Embassy in
>>> London buys US letter paper from somewhere (ships it from the USA?)
>>> but has to deal with incoming correspondence on European paper.
>>
>> Do you know that this actually happens?
>
> The Embassy prints all outgoing correspondence on US letter paper, but
> I don't know where they get it from. [...]
>>> London buys US letter paper from somewhere (ships it from the USA?)
>>> but has to deal with incoming correspondence on European paper.
>>
>> Do you know that this actually happens?
>
> The Embassy prints all outgoing correspondence on US letter paper, but
Where did you ascertain this from? I can quite believe that an embassy
would have nutty procurement regulations that would mean that none of
the staff can just pop down the street to the local stationery shop when
the laser jet printer runs out of paper. That's not why I'm asking.
I'm interested in confirming that this isn't one of those factoids that
"everyone knows", and that everyone passes along to other people as a
quite interesting tidbit, but that isn't actually now true. What's your
source?
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