Can’t relate at all. Maybe it’s regional. In EU conventional light bulb have been phased out more than ten years ago. In the first few years there were some crappy LED bulbs until manufactures solved issues of basically completely new product. I don’t remember any LED bulb I ever bought breaking until now. And ones I bought in last 5 years (when moving to a new place) also have nice warm colour and don’t flicker. Good bulbs used to be around 5-10€ per piece, now more due to inflation. But I don’t mind since they last forever. And way more efficient, wonder how long it takes before cost is made up my savings in electricity bill.
German mail system got rid of the need for stamps a while ago. Using this ever since. You can buy a stamp via app and the stamp is just a code you write with pen on the letter. Link unfortunately in German: https://www.paketda.de/frankieren/mobile-briefmarke.html
X265/HEVC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding
Also not true for X266/VVC.