was it signed-for by etch-a-sketch?
Honestly, these 'leccy signature things are hilarious.
Reminds me of a friend-of-a-friend on Facebook called Poly Esther. She's a synthetic bitch, I'm sure!! :-D
Post Office complaints: Write to M.BARRASS
The El Reg Bootnotes soviet was tickled late last week by the entertaining tale of reader "Frank", who got in touch about a letter of complaint he wrote to the Post Office regarding its broadband service. We won't bore you with the details* of the scrap between Frank and the PO, but suffice it to say the former fired off an …
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Monday 13th September 2010 10:00 GMT Mike Dimmick
Use a proper control
That kind of jagged mess is exactly what you get if you try to use a general-purpose image drawing control for signature capture. I wrote a dedicated control for signature capture for Pocket PC in 2001 which is a heck of a lot smoother than that.
To be fair, it could be that the touch-screen is now horribly damaged and only reporting a few points - but it looks like the OS not reporting every point that the stylus went through, because the program took too long to process each point. No excuse on today's 500MHz ARM processors, a far cry from the 66MHz MIPS-based processor in the Pocket PC I wrote that control for.
Pocket PC has an API GetMouseMovePoints to get all the points that the stylus went through - at the touchscreen resolution, typically four times the screen resolution - but I found I didn't need it.
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Monday 13th September 2010 11:50 GMT Anonymous Coward
Martin
I used to work with a Martin Barrass. He used to get pissed off with the number of people who thought it was a made up name.
Having said that, it was nothing to the girl we had at another office called Michelle House. She signed for a package one day and the courier told her to stop taking the piss,
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Tuesday 14th September 2010 00:14 GMT Apocalypse Later
If only
I remember when British Telecom was part of the post office. It is still pretty crap, but nothing like as bad as it was. Privatization will either improve or destroy the post office, and if destroyed it will be replaced by a better, private sector, business. Really up to the workers which.
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Tuesday 14th September 2010 09:03 GMT Anonymous Coward
The Post Office is not being privatised..
The Royal Mail Group consists of a number of separate entities ... UK Letters, Parcelforce and Post Office Ltd being the well known ones ... that's 3 independent but related brands. Although millions was spent on attempting to unify the brands under the Consignia name people kept on referring to the 3 brands and I guess a majority of people don't see any difference between them ... maybe they should have renamed it The RoyalMailParcelPostOfficeForce Ltd?
Post Office Ltd (the stamp selling, passport checking, car taxing, currency swapping, insurance, telecoms and offshore [soon to be onshore] banking arm) is NOT currently down to be sold off and will remain in state control along with the RMG pension deficit.
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Tuesday 14th September 2010 14:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
Tory?
"Well.... you idiots voted conservative, it's your own fault!"
And what exactly was Mandy up to with the post office? Oh that's right he was trying to privatise it. Wasn't he part of a labour government? No doubt voted for by idiots.
And no you can't wiggle out of it by reminding us that nobody voted for Mandy. Maybe they didn't, but they still voted for the government that made an unelected liar it's business secretary. A business secretary that seemed for some reason to have at least as much power as the prime minister. The whole Mandy thing was more sinister than anything else more that particularly sinister government got up to.
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Monday 13th September 2010 14:40 GMT An ominous cow heard
"Bridge Court is a BT building, not the Post Office"
Post Office Broadband is, as another contributor already speculated, provided for the P.O. as a "white label" service from BTwoolsale. Therefore any incompetence should come as no surprise at all, although customer-facing incompetence is probably down to the P.O. rather than BTw.
BT is of course the classic example of how privatisation automatically and inevitably cuts costs and improves quality. Isn't it.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3251-post-office-broadband-service-up-and-running.html
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Tuesday 14th September 2010 00:32 GMT xj25vm
Title
Two years back (or so) I had a whole bunch of letters with signed-for delivery not showing up correctly on PO website. Even months after, the website kept on saying that the signature will appear only after the things were delivered - or some non-sense like that. I know the letters did actually make it to the recipient. But I needed the signature as a proof. I finally got around to calling their complaints department, who seemed quite helpful. They sent me about 7 forms to fill in (one for each unsigned letter). As I kept the receipt/stickers with serial numbers etc., I dutifully filled in every form, with the recipient's name and address for original letters, the content of each letter and all other details. After two weeks or so - they sent me back seven more identical forms, asking for all sorts of details they already had in the first forms. I stated quite clearly in the initial forms that there were just paper letters in the envelopes, nothing else. It was like they were just taking the piss. After I have paid several times more to get the letter signed for, then taken the time to wait on their 0845 number for their complaints department, then given them all the details on the phone, then filled in the initial set of forms - they expected me to spent the entire rest of my life following a mesmerising paper trail. Like I needed the £1.28 refund or whatever it was. I thought they might take the opportunity to look into why all those letters were never signed for. So much for customer service.
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Tuesday 14th September 2010 09:02 GMT Anonymous Coward
data capture
interesting comment regarding the PocketPC crappy CPU and capturing of data points...there was an Android developer doc released last month pretty much devoted to this issue..showing the resolutions resulting from calling of the API cant recall the URL now but there should be no excuse
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