On a Postcard

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With Christmas not long off, many of us will be considering a purchase of a digital camera for a loved one, but which one?

For around £30/$50 you can get some quite nice cameras but they tend to be limited to fixed focus lenses and around 3mp. Still, if you’re currently using disposable cameras that’s a good price point to be looking at. They’ll give you photos at least as good as a disposable.

Whilst the serious camera people might well look down their nose at such a thing, in reality they’re quite an improvement on what many people are already using. Sure, you’ll not get massive prints from them but then few people produce anything larger than 5″x4″ anyway and at that price level you’ll get something quite capable of doing that.

So, yes, they are good enough for a lot of people.

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Companies sometimes have incredibly optimistic opinions of the knowledge of their customers concerning their organisation, don’t they?

Why should you be expected to know anything about how a company is organised when your only interaction with them is at the point of buying goods or services? It’s really crazy for them to assume that you know anything other than at best one phone number, e-mail address or website.

We’re currently in the crazy position of having received a renewal notice from our insurance company yet the car which it relates to was destroyed by them several months ago and indeed the original accident is even noted on the renewal reminder! So we have here a situation where the renewal goes out automatically (OK, that’s to be expected) yet it clearly indicates that the car to which it refers is no more!

I’d thought that such things were confined to the past, but obviously I was wrong!

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