Quote Originally Posted by islaydarkblue View Post
It is time that the Government of the day was tightening up the benefits system in this country and stopping the working tax credit scheme to encourage people to work full time contracts. I can see posties going the same way as staff working in bank branches. They will become a dying breed as people stop sending birthday cards and Christmas cards through the post.
Emails have taken over from posting letters.
In 2006 a postie on Islay told me that junk mail paid his wages. Now we get little junk mail as firms now bombard us with emails so we are now paying through the nose for first and second class stamps for a poor service.
In addition to the birthday card my wife sent which took eight weeks to be delivered she sent another two birthday cards at the same time. They were posted a least a week before the date of the birthday each with a second class stamp and they arrived late.
Goodness knows where the Royal Mail are getting their performance figures for the delivery of their mail on time. They must be using a desk top exercise or using selective counting.
Have a look at prices around Europe for letters you’ll be surprised at how cheap the uk is, letters are dying a painfully slow death, it’s packets/parcels that make the money