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In the UK a few decades ago, if you found a radiosonde from a weather balloon, it would have instructions on how to claim a recovery fee if you returned it for
by m-i-l 2mo ago
In the UK a few decades ago, if you found a radiosonde from a weather balloon, it would have instructions on how to claim a recovery fee if you returned it for reuse. Sadly I never found one, but I knew this because my dad was a geophysicist and we lived at the time on a Scottish island which was one of the UK's launch spots. Looks like the recovery fee was stopped a long time ago, when the devices became cheap enough to be effectively disposable.
- m463 2mo agoreminds me of keys/badges with "drop in any mailbox" instructions that recover them.
- aleksejs 2mo agoThis is an official USPS service available to anyone willing to attach their address and "a statement guaranteeing payment of postage due on delivery" to their keys! Which is neat but kind of awkward if that's also the address of the door the keys open. (per section 1.6 of USPS DMM 133 at https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/133.htm https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/133.htm)
- m463 2mo agono media mail rates. Will have to return that overdue book to the library in person.