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SPOILER!!: Awesome answers and Moxley replies! Quote:
Originally Posted by Saz Hale  Abby raised her hand and said "Muggle mail works by the person posting a letter that is picked up by a postman or woman and is taken to a sorting office to get sorted then delivered the person that it is addressed to" Abby was proud that she at least knew a bit about muggle mail ”Very good, Ms. Valentine.” You’d think she’d be using the nicknames the kids provided but really, Meredith just had them list the names for her own amusement. ”It’s quite the process but a necessary one to ensure that mail gets delivered safely from one place to another.” SPOILER!!: Dylan and Hayden Quote:
Originally Posted by Ringo Hmm, Muggle mail? Dylan raised his hand. "Well, it's not delivered by owl," he answered. "I think they have it delivered just by other people?" He wasn't sure, he didn't know much about it and never thought about it before. He couldn't imagine having mail delivered by people, though. It was pretty unusual. Quote:
Originally Posted by littledhampir Ooh, Hayden definitely knew the answer to that question. She raised her hand. "They don't get their mail by owl. They have mailboxes." Their mail was delivered by an actual person. That seemed like so much work for one person to do. Owls were much easier. Muggles should start using owls, it would be a better system for them. In
Hayden's opinion, at least. But muggles didn't seem to like owls as much. ”By people and to letter boxes, yes! For those of you who don’t know, private letter boxes are small openings on the door of one’s house in which the post person will place your letters when they’re being delivered to you.” Meredith began to draw an illustration of what she meant on the white board, complete with stick figure postman. ” Those are not to be confused with the post boxes that are situated here and there for muggles to place their outgoing mail, mail which is collected, sorted, and then delivered by post people.” SPOILER!!: Stamps! Quote:
Originally Posted by Saraie Cinna knew just a few things about muggle mailing systems. She would send her cousin Mercedes letters by mail all the time. She raised her hand, "Stamps are used as a proof of purchase. You actually have to pay to send letters." She nodded. That's what she had to say really. Quote:
Originally Posted by Buggy-Boo Margo smiled. She knew this! She sent letters and parcels to her grandparents all the time through muggle mail. "You have to place a stamp on the letters, and the cost of stamps keeps rising." Margo added thinking of her father's rant about how the price of EVERYTHING kept rising. "Some parcels are weighed and the cost of sending them is based on how much they weigh."
There Margo for once at least felt like she had the right answer for once. Quote:
Originally Posted by kayquilz MUGGLE MAAAAAIL! Eden LOVED MAIL. SHE NEVER GOT MAIL SO WHEN SHE DID IT WAS THE MOST EXCITING THING EVER. And coming fro the muggle post--it was the BEST. Wizard post was, too but--yeah! "Well." She raised her hand. "You have to use stamps!" she knew that wasn't the most IMPORTANT part, but it was the COOLEST part.
STAMPS WERE FUN! Quote:
Originally Posted by Daydreamer11 "You have to put stamps on your letters. The heavier the letter, the more stamps you need to use. Annnnd stamps can have pictures of lots of different people and things on them." Quote:
Originally Posted by Sararara Her hand shot into the air and wriggled until she was called on. "Muggles have to pay to send letters because its got to have a stamp on it or else it won't be delivered. I don't think it makes muggle mail any worse, though, 'cause they're real live people delivering the mail and not owls so they need to charge for it. Plus it means they can buy those super cool vests." She nodded at Professor Moxley's bright orange attire with a smile. "Stamps are really cool, though! They have all sorts of pictures on then and ONCE I even saw SPARKLY ones." Wizards should REALLY consider but sparkly stickers on all of their mail. Quote:
Originally Posted by Felixir "You can get different kinds of stamps, depending on how quick you want something to get to a place. Like first class or second class. Sometimes they're cool little pictures but usually it's a picture of the king or queen's face from the side." Which of those did the muggles have now? It was easy to lose track or forget when you immersed yourself in the wizarding community and stuff. "Also muggle letters and packages can get lost on the way. Way more than with owl deliveries."
Lost letters. Yep. So when you were waiting from an important letter from someone it was good to be able to say 'oh it must be lost in the mail' rather than... anything else. ”Stamps! Very good, you lot!” A smile was given and then Meredith turned to the bored again, drawing and then labeling the two stamps she’d created. One read ‘First Class’ and the second ‘Second Class.’ ”The type of stamp you want to buy depends on how quickly you’d like your mail to arrive to the person you’re corresponding with. The price depends on the how big or small the item is that you’re sending. And as Ms. Kittredge pointed out,” Adorable kid, Kittredge was, ”The pricing is necessary to help pay the hard working people who collect, sort and deliver the mail. When we consider this, the cost doesn’t seem so ridiculous.” Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry174 Angel looked at the Professor and smiled as she raised her hand. "They have different class of mail, so like first class is supposed to get there faster than second class, though sometimes things don't work like that." Angel wondered what happened when things went wrong. And Angel’s point fit nicely with the previous answers so Meredith smiled as she added, ”Precisely. The first class stamps go with the first class mail and you guessed it, second class stamps with the second class mail. And while those workin to deliver the mail try and stick to the time frame their give, circumstances sometimes make it hard.” Which was understandable. SPOILER!!: Envelopes! Quote:
Originally Posted by lemon "They also use envelopes for letters. Like us. We're not so different after all!" Pause pause pause. "I.... think."
Did that count as an answer? Quote:
Originally Posted by Suziella Bleu raised her hand and said, "Well they don't just have small envelopes. They have large envelopes, padded ones, small boxes, and even huge boxes. They can be very expensive to send and can take a long time to get where they are going depending one where you are sending it." Yeah...that's what she knew about muggle mail. She did get letters and packages from her muggle family after all. Quote:
Originally Posted by Anna Banana "If you have something to send to another person, you have to put it in an envelope and seal it," she said. "You write the address of their house on the envelope, and somebody brings the mail to the recipient's house." This meant that if the recipient wasn't home, they couldn't get their mail until they got home. Owls would be able to find people wherever they went. It did indeed count. Meredith could see the kid was grasping at straws but he’d TRIED and that’s what she was concerned wit, mostly. ”Quite right, Mr. Toussaint. Envelopes are used in both cases, though they can vary in color and size, as Ms. Rawley pointed out.” Kid got an A for effort and both kids got smiles. Nice thinking. ”Ms. Addison also mentioned a good point. Muggles need to be sure to write the correct address on an envelope so that letters and parcels arrive at the right residence!” Didn’t want mail ending up in the wrong hands, though mistakes did happen on occasion. SPOILER!!: Dot, Ruby, and Lux, and Evie Quote:
Originally Posted by Cassirin "Wait, the mail is delivered by people? And it doesn't go from person to owl to person? That's so... inefficient. It probably takes so much LONGER to get a letter by Muggle post." But they did get boss vests to wear, so. Quote:
Originally Posted by Tegz "It takes a lot longer to be delivered than owl post, muggle mail has to be sorted first and it has to be delivered to a real registered address or a special post office box. " Not cupboards under stairs for instance. Quote:
Originally Posted by Squishy The similarities between the two cultures were rather striking, and she definitely was around muggles a fair bit. Muggles were pretty awesome really. As the focus turned to mail, Lux raised her hand to answer the next question. "Muggle mail moves a lot slower than ours. In fact, it's often referred to as snail mail for that very reason." Because snails were very slow creatures. "Their mail needs to be sorted for delivery and is either delivered to an address, or left at a place called a post office where the person the mail is for goes to pick it up. It also costs money to send mail, and packages are weighed to see how much they cost. Fragile items can be insured for in case they break enroute." Hopefully she was correct in all this because she wasn't too familiar with muggle mail, mostly using owls. Quote:
Originally Posted by sarahlooo She had muggle neighbors growing up, so Evie was familiar with a lot of things, including how they sent mail. She raised her hand. "It takes forever," she added to the rest of the class' input. "They put it in boxes, and the mailman comes and picks it up and takes it to a factory type thing. Then they take all the mail and have to use a car to drive it all the way to its destination." That's what she had learned, anyway, without actually having to experience it. ”It does indeed take longer, as Ms. Banner , Ms. Carrington and Ms. Shaklebolt explained. Of course you can pay a bit more to move along your letter or parcel faster, but there is a wait to receive them no matter what so patience is necessary.” And it was nice to see the red head was interested, if not a little perplexed by the means in which the muggles managed to send things out. Quote:
Originally Posted by fanficfanatict Oh no. Wait. She was confused as to what he had meant by his question. He would explain. Never fear. "Nah, man. I meant..." How to explain large universal concept of existence? "I was asking if you wanted us to answer about why we learn in general. Our humanness...ness. What have you. THOUGH, I understand, now, you only, like, wanted stuff pertaining strictly to muggles."
He would allow her to carry on now.
And they were talking about muggle mail now? So inefficient. He knew they were supposed to be tolerant of muggles or whatever, but sometimes it was hard when they put their post in a box...waited for someone to pick it out of the box...have it sorted...then have it shipped...and SOMETIMES it never even got there.
Owls were so much more logical. Saved time, energy, resources. Was ecologically friendly. This kid was going to give her headaches, yeah? Like she could already see that he was the type to question all the things and for a brief moment, she was wondering if he was the one who should be teaching this class. Merlin, somebody get this kid a lectern. Just smile and nod, Meredith. That’s all you can do. Smile and nod. Heh. Quote:
Originally Posted by Samia When the Professor asked her second question, Noel raised his hand and while answering, tried to keep the tag in place on his robes: "I think it's brilliant Professor. It requires lots of manual work by the muggles - While we just simply give our letters to the owls, the muggles take their letters to the post, and then it gets sorted by other muggles, and then another muggle takes it to the desired address." Muggles were pretty hardworking in his opinion.
Was he talking too much? He probably was. Stupid tag. ”Good point, Mr. Wallace. Those working to collect, sort, and deliver the mail work extremely hard and while it can be frustrating when letters and parcels aren’t delivered within the expected amount of time, it isn’t for lack of effort on the part of the people working to do so.” Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 "Mail can be delivered to all countries of the world but it can take ages to get there." Muggle mail could be so slow. Quote:
Originally Posted by 2111jen for professor
"Sometimes people ship letters in something called an airplane. Say if you wanted to send a letter from the UK to the United States maybe?" Domino said.
She was glad all that reading had finnally paid off. It was interesting how much the students knew about muggle mail and Meredith was genuinely surprised, though it’d made her job that much easier. Again, how could you be upset about something like that? ”This is another good thing to consider. Those working with the mail are not only responsible for sending it out locally, but globally as well. Other means of muggle transportation help move that process along, though.” Like the airplane that Mr. Emery mentioned. And since muggle transportation wasn’t something they’d be discussing today, Moxley didn’t get too involved with what types aided the postmen and women. Quote:
Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin Now onto the next question what did he know about muggle mail? Snort what didn't he know. He heard others answers and thought they all seemed legit. "Professor I think muggle mail is really expensive depending on where you are sending it? I know if you send it overseas you have to pay a lot for shipping costs." He wondered if the Professor knew what he was talking about. ”Very good, Mr. Lecium. Muggle mail can be pricey to package and send but many find it worth it so that they can keep in touch with people all over.” Of course, they COULD just pick up the telephone, a lovely muggle device, but letter writing DID have a special personalized touch that the phone couldn’t quite live up to. SPOILER!!: People mentioning Sunday and Holidays Quote:
Originally Posted by ArianaBlack But a lot of people were talking about the packaging and all of that... So uh, he'd have to talk about the other aspect yeah? So that they got a bit of everything. Hm. And what else was there to say really other than-- OH! "No post on Sundays!" That came out a lot more enthusiastically than expected. Oops. "A lot of services don't do Sunday deliveries." And that's what he meant. YUP. Owls did Sundays though, so that wasn't really a universally followed mail rule or whatever. Quote:
Originally Posted by SpiritWolfe Malfoy Todays lesson was about mail? Muggle mail to be exact. She knew a far deal about muggle mail and muggles in general. There wasn't much that hadn't already been said by the time the young Slytherin got her hand in the air and gave her answer. "Muggle post doesn't deliver anything on major holidays, like Christmas."
She knew this was true cause her mom always got super nervous if anything was sent through muggle mail around the holidays. So it was a good answer. Quote:
Originally Posted by Govoni "Uh.....Well *some throat clearing*, different countries have different holidays...Much like...the States and...England, for example. There...are different days the...mail can't...run because establishments are...closed."
Nailed it. And good, several students knew about mail only being delivered on certain days of the week as well as being held up on certain holidays. ”This type of information is important for muggles to keep in mind in case they are sending time sensitive material in the mail. They’ll need to package and send it out early so that holiday and week day schedules work with getting their delivery out on time.” Quote:
Originally Posted by Hera Hand raised, Zeke waited his turn to talk. "Sometimes they deliver mail to the wrong people, so if you get one that doesn't belong to you, you write 'return to sender' or 'not at this address' on it... and put it back in the post so they can figure out where it SHOULD go." Yeah. Yeah. Cause that happened sometimes. ”Yes!” No one had mentioned this before so Professor Moxley was pleased someone remembered to bring it up. ”There are definitely times when switch-ups can occur and it is important that muggles help to right the mistakes so that the letters can get to the places they were meant to go. If you think of the volume of mail being dealt with on a daily basis, it’s actually not that surprising that these types of situations happen.” Quote:
Originally Posted by Ginevra Cilla slowly raised her hand.
"There are certain items that can't be mailed due to something called 'customs laws' Food is a common banned items as it could affect the environment if insects are brought in." Well, this girl knew quite a bit about the mailing process, it seemed. Meredith gave her a smile, though she didn’t want to go down this particular road of discussion as it got rather complicated. ”Good, Ms. Ashcroft. Not something we’ll be talking about in depth today but it certainly can be true when dealing with sending out parcels.” SPOILER!!: Right on the money!
QUOTE=Tazenhani;11714159] Putting up her hand, Amur thought to give her two cents. "Its a dangerous profession. Most mailmen and mail women get chased by resident muggle dogs."
She still wasn't sure why though. She understood cats and dogs chasing owls. It was just what they did. But dogs and mailmen and women? Was it the uniform?[/QUOTE] Quote:
Originally Posted by Deezerz "Mail is usually delivered the next day after you take it to the post office no matter how close the residence is." Owls were obviously more efficient. "And post-people work through all kinds of weather on foot and by vehicle." That must suck. Quote:
Originally Posted by Optimist “I know as I grew up in the states that the motto for the United States Postal Service or…USPS for short, is…Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” she even threw her hand over her chest as a means to act like she was taking the oath herself. And immediately IMMEDIATELY afterwards began the painstaking process of note taking…note copying also because HELLO people needed to know that someone was copying what they were saying into notes like it was important and sure, sure it might be…but hello? Wasn’t that like only for courtrooms? Was Banner a Scribe?
These answers, these are the ones that had the most to do with what they’d be focusing on for the rest of class. Meredith grinned at each, though she wasn’t as amused with Ms. Greyvson’s performance as the girl probably thought she should be. ”Their hard work really isn’t something to joke about, honestly.” The brunette raised an eyebrow at the prefect and then turned her attention to the rest of the class. ”It is something I would like to discuss further, though. As several of your classmates mentioned, postmen and women work in all kinds of weather conditions and have to deal with both people and, on occasion, neighborhood pets. All of this is done while carrying large bags full of letters and/or large parcels that need to be delivered and most do it with a smile.” Honestly, they did.
”This is a matter of opinion, of course, but can anyone tell me what sort of personality traits would be ideal for a person working in a profession like this?”
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