Tag Archives: Letters

I FELT the need to reply to Mervyn Gibson’s article, ‘Fascists are a total anathema to the unionist community’. I’m not going to comment on his main point regarding fascism/racism and loyalism (other than to make the obvious point that it’s taken him more than two weeks since the incidents …

This delivery was quite literally postponed. As if the world’s post offices weren’t plagued by enough delays: Employees at a Welsh bank were dumbfounded after receiving a postcard 121 years after it was originally sent. “It turned up completely out of the blue,” Henry Darby, the marketing and communications officer …

End of the line: a Royal Mail freight train crosses the River Esk at Mossband, Cumbria Credit: alamy. SIR – Royal Mail's announcement of the end of … Source link

Mr Kretinsky may not even be that interested in Royal Mail. Some observers, including The Spectator’s Martin Van der Weyer, think that his real interest is in GLS, the profitable Dutch postal delivery service also owned by Royal Mail’s parent company. Once he’s got that, he may offload Royal Mail. …

NHS heroes SIR – When will the wonderful, hard-working people who keep the NHS functioning on a daily basis get the recognition they deserve? The description of the NHS as an “enemy” of British patients (Comment, April 10) must be so demoralising for those who work tirelessly under dreadful pressures. …

SIR – I received an NHS letter postmarked February 9 at 12.30pm on February 16. My X-ray appointment was for 3pm. Thankfully I was able to attend. Had the appointment been sooner, it would have been another one missed. Catherine Pepinster (Comment, April 4) is right that Royal Mail holds …

Royal Mail is a national disgrace. Margaret Wilson Ferndown, Dorset. Letters to the Editor. We accept letters by email and … Source link

SIR – You report (September 15) that the northern leg of HS2 “may be axed to save £35 billion”. It is time our politicians woke up and cancelled the whole sorry enterprise. Vast amounts of money have been spent, without any accountability – and for what? Charles PenfoldUlverston, Cumbria  SIR – …

SIR – I do wonder about the people running Royal Mail, and what business acumen they demonstrated to secure their roles (“Royal Mail adds Christmas and net zero surcharge to deliveries”, report, September 15). The company is clearly struggling amid the headwinds created by electronic communications and inflation. Sadly, however, …

SIR – Isabel Oakeshott is lucky that she has only been waiting a year for a local road to be fixed (“Feckless councils are ripping taxpayers off”, Comment, September 4).  In August 2020 we asked the authorities in Suffolk to install about 35 yards of double-yellow lines in a stretch of …