Third-class service from Royal Mail
I AGREE about the decline in the postal service (Letters). Posting a small packet to a friend a few miles away, I paid £4.85 for signed-for next-day delivery. It took 16 days to be delivered. On the same day I sent the parcel, I posted a letter to a relative 300 miles away in Northumberland. It was delivered the next day. Using drones for parcel delivery is an interesting idea, but there is a crying need to get the basics right first. Royal Mail’s managers used to be promoted postmen and women who knew the service inside out, but now they all appear to be graduates who have never delivered a letter.
JOHN EDWARDS, Epsom, Surrey.
IS THIS a record? A Christmas card that was sent first-class on December 20 was not delivered until January 10.
B. DIXEY, address supplied.
I’VE just received a Christmas card posted second-class on December 9. Unfortunately, it seems to be a third-class postal service.
RONALD BALL, Farnborough, Hants.
I LAUGHED at the story about the letter that was delivered even though it didn’t have a proper address. The sender had addressed it to Feargal, who lives across the road from the Spar, mentioned the names of his parents, where he lived after getting married, that he plays guitar, used to run discos in the parish hall and that he was ‘friends with the fella who runs the butcher’s’. In the 1960s my father worked for the Post Office and a letter that was addressed to Wood, John, Hants was successfully delivered to John Underwood in Andover.
CAROLE GOODMAN, East Grinstead, W. Sussex