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A note says it will be replaced ‘shortly’, by a parcel machine.
Locals are unable to post Xmas cards.
It seems the classic red post box will be dismantled and scrapped? Replaced by one of the hideous machines appearing nationally.
There was no consultation about this. This is supposedly a conservation area.
This will have been decided by the Czech oligarch who now owns the Royal Mail.
Privatisation of the G.P.O was a step too far even for Margaret Thatcher.
His main purpose is to service the needs of fellow billionaires at Amazon and Ebay.
When passing it recently, my grandsons and their parents were in awe of seeing the actual post box H.Q. of Danger Mouse.
He’s operated there for their two generations.
Perhaps Baron Greenback ($), his arch-enemy, is behind all this.
Mike Smith,
Address supplied
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If it ain’t broke…
So our wonderful council is trying to stop traffic going through Rougier Street and installing ANPR cameras.
Let’s just go back a few years and remember Lendal Bridge, then let’s not forget Coppergate. Both places had ANPR cameras installed, both failed, and now Coppergate is one way.
The council say they’ve got to save money and here they are wasting money again because somebody will challenge it and the council will have to reopen it for everybody.
As the saying goes, if it ain’t broken don’t fix it.
Andy Wood,
Tennent Road
York
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Spending is misguided
I find myself agreeing in principle with Roger Cook (letters 5 December) when he objects to David Skaith spending £.5m on a “bus study”.
I have an alternative proposal to make. Why not take a leaf out of his City of York Council colleagues’ book and consult us, the public?
The current consultation on the proposed Rougier Route running till Monday 12 January will be costing a fraction of the £.5m Skaith plan.
Admittedly, the Rougier Route primarily (though not exclusively) affects York citizens. However, the consultation is a model for how to involve people in order to achieve a better solution.
Think again, please, Mayor Skaith!
Ginnie Shaw,
Osbaldwick
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Black Fridays
Why do we seem to keep having Black Fridays when, I thought, we’d had it? Do Black Fridays come in waves, a bit, but thankfully not a lot, like epidemics; other ‘demics’ also available.
It doesn’t seem to appear in diaries and calendars and yet it’s caught on. It’s certainly not indicated on my Advent calendar, but then Advent calendars often don’t say much about Advent these days!
I realise it’s a ‘run-up to Christmas’ sales ploy, but that’s about as far as my understanding goes. Is it always black? I am aware it’s a line in a Christmas song; ‘I’m dreaming of a Black Friday’. The title certainly differentiates it from Good Friday. Is it always invariably Friday(s)? The public has a right to know.
Derek Reed,
Address supplied
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