Royal Mail delay: ‘Disgraceful’ delays mean week’s worth of post in one delivery

Seven items, all variously postmarked including a greetings card posted to me by a friend living about two miles away. Postmarked 14th. Exactly a week earlier.

Would someone from the ludicrously entitled ‘Royal’ Mail organisation care to explain that?

Who knows, perhaps they might put up postage prices to further encourage people to use the mail service less – oh hang on a minute….the classic retail response; if no- one is buying it let’s push up the price even more.

Disgraceful.

Rodney J M Wirdnam

Whilestone Way

Tory leader vote is of public concern

Roy Gibbons’ letter (SA, July 23) gloats that only Tory party members will be allowed to choose the next Tory to lead them as they take a sledgehammer to public services, drive up poverty levels and seek to remove what diminishing rights ordinary people have.

But he has his metaphors in a twist. The Captain of a “football, rugby or cricket” team may or may not be of concern to onlookers.

But we are not exactly onlookers, are we? If, for instance, football Captain Rishi Sunak told us his team had won 3-0 on Saturday, but we had all watched as in reality they lost 3-0 we could laugh this lie off.

But if Chancellor Rishi Sunak tells us, as he did on Breakfast TV last year, that his Government policies had lead to a fall in the numbers in poverty, while in fact those policies had lead to little change overall but an increase in 600,000 children in poverty between 2011 and 2019 Roy may be able to say those children were just onlookers but anyone with critical capacities wouldn’t be able to agree.

Now if he had said the winner would be of “no consequence” as they would be equally bad he would have been on to something.

Peter Smith

Woodside Avenue

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