It's only the cost of a postage stamp....

The real trouble is that we are now starting to see the true cost of the postal service - and it's not pretty. Like BT, it's going to take time to get some real competition going and then we might see some real effort from the (eventually privatised) Royal Mail to please us, the customers, rather than relying on the junk mail industry.

Until then, time to stock up on stamps ... and shares in whichever company makes those bl**dy red rubber bands that litter the pavement.

... that standards will drop. If this is true, then God help UK businesses. It's bad enough having a cheap crap service without paying through the nose for an even crappier service! Maybe TNT will take over Royal Mail and then we can all enjoy the crap postal service that HMRC enjoys (I hope I have remembered the correct postal supplier for HMRC!). Maybe TNT will even pay the clients penalties when the reminder letter that their self assessment has to be submitted within the next 3 months arrives too late for the client to do anything about it!

Back to reality. Lately, we receive our post in the early afternoon, except that quite often it isn't 'our' post but someone else's, and not always an immediate neighbour but for someone streets away, and for this reason we can never be sure that we ever receive our post!

... and the bl**dy red rubber bands wind me up too (and everyone else that I know)! Their delivery guys/gals have obviously never heard of 'Keep Britain Tidy' and they don't mind if a kiddy or an animal chokes on the rubbish they drop!'

but glad to see it is not only  our area that suffers the rubber band trail.  Soon it will be cheaper to personally drop off the post to each client....at thats at £1.50 per litre - well if the fuel pumps haven't run dry by then....

My hubby has picked 12 rubber bands up off our driveway today! Maybe I shouldn't complain as it is proof that the postie does actually turn up at our house, even if it isn't our post that we receive!

I often feel like a nominee postie (both home and office) as we often skip around delivering post to the correct destination ;)

when you receive a letter from the post office saying someone has underpayed postage (often by 10p or so) and you have to send them a £1 in postage stamps (presumably the admin cost of resending the post etc.....