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Poll: Do you ever send any projects or invoices by post?
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Victoria Britten
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France
Local time: 07:56
French to English
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Book proofs Nov 6, 2015

That is, making corrections on proof copies. I do some work checking school textbooks for English (as a foreign language) for secondary schools. The major part of the job is making sure it hangs together linguistically, because the authors are French, and that is done using Word. However, there's a lot of detail and so when time allows I also go over the proofs for typos and other fiddly details that may have got overlooked in the Word format. There's no other way that I know of to send those ba... See more
That is, making corrections on proof copies. I do some work checking school textbooks for English (as a foreign language) for secondary schools. The major part of the job is making sure it hangs together linguistically, because the authors are French, and that is done using Word. However, there's a lot of detail and so when time allows I also go over the proofs for typos and other fiddly details that may have got overlooked in the Word format. There's no other way that I know of to send those back to the publisher! ▲ Collapse
 
Mario Chavez (X)
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Local time: 01:56
English to Spanish
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Hard copy Nov 6, 2015

José Henrique Lamensdorf wrote:

As the Brazilian law on sworn translations stands unamended since it was passed in 1943 - though statewide regulations are updated from time to time - its output is always in hard copy.

Some clients come by to pick them up at the reception here, however many prefer to receive them via conventional mail. As there is a post office just a block away, I don't mind taking that short walk for some exercise. Now and then a client from overseas arranges for their preferred courier service to come here and pick it up.


You have a reception? Is the receptionist a cute one?
 
Mario Chavez (X)
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Local time: 01:56
English to Spanish
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FedEx, couriers, thermal paper faxes Nov 6, 2015

Those were the days! My humdrum life would snap back to action with the all-familiar sound of the:

a) Door ring: FedEx
b) Plastic clanking of my Sony fax machine, spitting pages
c) Door ring again: courier bringing a job from across Manhattan

Now it's all impersonal emails.
 
Mario Freitas
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Brazil
Local time: 02:56
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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Post? Nov 7, 2015

What is that?
 
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