Turkeys Vote in Time for Christmas
I have very friendly and good postmen here. They put the mail on the hall table and collect anything that needs to go. They have time for a quick chat and they check on the elderly etc.
But we’ve now got the postal unions pushing for a national strike.
The question is do we really need a postal service.
If I look at the post we get here, perhaps two letters a week are important. I get very few bills to pay and those could all be sent by e-mail. As to cheques in, I get none, as most pay their bills by bank transfer. So it would not affect my business if I didn’t get any mail at all.
I buy a lot of goods on mail order and that seems to get through pretty efficiently. In fact there has been a dramatic improvement over the last few years, as the delivery companies have improved their systems and I think the recession has given them a more intelligent and polite class of driver.
So if we had a long postal strike, I don’t think I would even notice. I certainly wouldn’t miss the tonnes of environmentally unfriendly junk mail, that is sent. Most of it incidentally to my late wife.
It is sad to say I wouldn’t miss the mail, but in a way it’s progress, as we increasingly rely on phones, e-mail and the Internet.
In a couple of years, I suspect that I could make do on a twice-weekly delivery for all the non-urgent personal stuff like cards and the very occasional letter.
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