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Hi all, I like to write good old-fashioned picture postcards when I am away, but I'm usually too lazy to hunt down stamps and they go unsent. The postcard apps available for my iPad and iPhone seem a good idea, but I'm having trouble finding a good one. Ideally, I want one that: 1) Posts cards...

You can use points to request an upgrade on a flight booked by a travel agent, but you can only do so after the flight has been ticketed and paid for.

Thank you all for your advice! A couple of options there I hadn't considered.

I'll be flying to the UK soon, on a work-related trip, and could use some advice. I'm scheduled to arrive in Heathrow on QF1 at 8:20am on the Sunday. I'm currently scheduled to meet colleagues in Plymouth on the Monday morning, but I have some flexibility and can push that back to Tuesday if I...

Thanks - tried that, but they can't issue the card early as I won't hit the required number of points to renew SG until the first leg of my trip.

I paid before I was SG. While I am SG, they keep the remaining time of my QC membership on hold and reactivate it if I drop back to silver.

You may be right. It has been a while.

Or I can show my summary on my iPad when I get there. Slightly less easy to fake. It's still up to the lounge staff, though.

Status is printed on Qantas boarding passes, but not partner airline boarding passes.

Okay - I called Qantas and got a very friendly, helpful customer service rep on the phone. Upshot, unfortunately, is that they can't sent the new SG card out early and it will be up to the lounge staff whether or not they let me in with the expired card+ability to show my status online. Since I...

How about 35G? I currently have 35G requested on a QF1 A380 flight. There's an empty seat next to me, so far. SeatGuru says that "proximity to the lavatories" may be a bother, but it does seem as though only a few people will be using those toilets, so I'm hoping that won't be an issue. There...

Even though I won't requalify until after that QF1 flight?

I will be off on an around the world trip (for work purposes, but unfortunately, flying economy all the way) in mid May. The first leg of the trip will tip me over the SC balance required to retain Qantas SG. My current Qantas gold FF card is due to expire at the end of May and I will be doing...

How do you tip hotel cleaners? Do you take the money to the front desk? Add it when you settle the bill as you check out? Or do you leave it in the room? Do you leave a note with it, or leave it in some special place, or is any cash left lying around assumed to be a tip in the US?

Before Kindles were widely available in stores in Australia, I was doing quite nicely buying myself a new one every year and selling my old one, second hand, for more than the purchase price of a new one from Amazon.

It's also impractical with the QC20s, as they stick out too far. You could just leave in the one in the outside ear, I guess.

In a moment of weakness, I bought a pair on the way back from China last week, to supplement my QC15s and Bose IE2s and my MIE2s and my Klipsch and Phillips and Apple earphones. (It's... a weakness). They are lovely. Very comfy and incredibly good noise cancellation. The cord length is ample. My...

I remember them from childhood, and how they hurt my ears. The second part of in-flight entertainment in those days was the free deck of cards you could get on every flight, if you asked. And instead of the activity packs for kids that they have these days, kids were given little winged brooches...

We have enough bandwidth for low-resolution videoconferencing, which is fine for one-on-one conversations. We don't have enough bandwidth currently to videoconference effectively with a room full of people. With current bandwidth, you either can't see facial details of people in the other room...

Let's say someone comes up with an idea for a new service that 70% of households would want. If everyone already has the connection, the idea is highly commercial and can go ahead, as can the next 10 or 20 innovations like it. If only a few people have the connection, it's a non-starter. Sure...