Election canvassing has left me bristling | General election 2024

After many hours volunteering to canvass and deliver leaflets during the election campaign, I can wholeheartedly consign bristle draught excluders on letterboxes to Room 101. I’d be grateful if Royal Mail staff who manage to deliver post unmangled, without constantly nipping their fingers, could share their secrets.
John Rushton
Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire

The destruction of £1.4bn of PPE is the “worst example” of waste to do with the Covid pandemic, according to the shadow health secretary Wes Streeting (Report, 25 June). The £37bn blown on the test-and-trace system that never worked trumps that.
Pete Lavender
Nottingham

If Keir Starmer is elected as prime minister on 4 July, he will be my eight-year-old granddaughter’s sixth in her lifetime, a milestone not reached by her parents until they were well into their 30s.
Roy Collard
York

Under the Tories, No 10 has been a party pad and a disco – why not a betting shop (Report, 25 June)?
Brian Donnelly
London

Emma Beddington’s article on drinking (I am sober curious – but a little alcohol is still valuable to me, 23 June) reminded me of a trip to Paris after the war. In every carriage on the Métro, there was a poster saying: “For your health’s sake, don’t drink more than a litre of wine a day.”
Tony Meacock
Norwich

Re England’s Black footballers (Letters, June 20), let’s not forget Walter Tull, who played for Clapton, Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town before the first world war.
Robert Gifford
Milton Keynes