normangray

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   by normangray 2y ago

   Thank you! – yes, it's a private company, fully owned by the Government. I think I sort-of knew that, but it hadn't properly registered; I may indeed have been confusing it with Royal Mail. It means that the PO is quite closely a
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   by normangray 2y ago

   Yup. The Post Office, the railways, the water system , for heavens' sake! The tories, as a matter of religious faith, see privatised => efficient, whilst being unclear on the difference between 'efficient at creating sharehol
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   by normangray 2y ago

   Probably, but not necessarily. The article points out that the PAF is kept up to date by virtue of thousands of postmen and postwomen physically visiting the rows in the database on a daily basis, as part of normal business, and logging upd
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   by normangray 2y ago

   I remember asking a USGS person about this. They remarked that the other difference was that, compared with the OS, the USGS data was a bit rubbish (I may be paraphrasing). The USGS is funded by some shard of the US federal budget, and doe