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Re:The International Standard for Identifying Postal Items by mongol on Saturday June 14, 2025 @02:05AM (#44274535)
And I wonder what was the constraint to not make it longer when they developed the standard. Making it a few digits more seem it wouldn't cost much.
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Re:The International Standard for Identifying Postal Items by omcnoe on Saturday June 14, 2025 @02:23AM (#44274600)
The cost will be in updating every legacy postal system that currently has fixed column lengths/input field length limits.
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Re:The International Standard for Identifying Postal Items by topsecret on Saturday June 14, 2025 @07:19AM (#44275659)
Yes, now, but the person you're replying to was asking about at inception.
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Re:The International Standard for Identifying Postal Items by rjh29 on Saturday June 14, 2025 @11:43PM (#44280374)
Why was IPv4 so pitifully small? I guess most people thought 100 million parcels a year was a ridiculously generous limit that we'd never reach.
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