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Hey Canada, just wanted to let you know there's alternatives. (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 17 points 2 days ago (1 child)

I think this is a little bit outdated at least for the Philippines. Goverment documents now primarily use A4 to comply with ISO standards. Some places such as schools may sometimes use the letter size (commonly referred to as short size here) but A4 is now much more common.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    It's getting to be outdated for the US too - while the size is still around, it's getting pretty rare outside of direct consumer sales. I've written several systems that have generated tens of millions of letters for various official communications, and all of the government direct-mailing systems have used A-series paper (or US legal - as far as I'm aware there's no ISO equivalent to US legal?).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (1 child)

    A4 is the closest thing to US Letter. I don't think there is anything close to US Legal (aspect ratio is all wrong). I've never received a single A-sized government letter, but I would love to be pleasantly surprised someday.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (1 child)

    I mean... Do you regularly measure your mail? I'm sure there's still printers out there that run on letter, but they're becoming far less common. Perhaps your region is the holdout.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    You're right, of course. I don't, but next time I will. I grew up with A4 and can usually tell from the aspect ratio by eye, but yeah I'm not paper size Rainman either, so it's possible I've never noticed.

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