THANK YOU ROYAL MAIL

[kaberett]

This is a screenshot of the "Fee to Pay" page on the Royal Mail website. Titles are obligatory. They offer six options, which are given (in order) as: Mr, Miss, Mrs, Ms, Dr, Sir.

This is a screenshot of the Contact Us form to which you are directed if you tell them that you have a problem with a Redelivery or paying a fee. Again, title is an obligatory field. It offers ten options, which are given (in order) as: Mr, Mrs, Ms, Miss, Mx, Dr, Lady, Rev, Lord, Sir.

I. CANNOT. EVEN.

Comments

Re: On the embarrassment of bein a man in address

[naath]

Yeah, I think it's a pretty good alternative to coming up with a "no marriage info" title for women; although I do like "Ms".

But lots of people are neither Mr nor Mrs (surely the Netherlands has *doctors* at least...) and people should realise this when they make forms! It's the quiet bigotry of people not even bothering to realise you exist :( :( :(

Re: On the embarrassment of bein a man in address

[kaberett]

I suspect this is the thing where Germanic languages/societies concatenate titles? so someone can end up being e.g. "Mr Dr Professor" (Herr Doktor Professor") and _all_ of them are their titles. Dunno for definite, though.