22 September (Part 2) - Broken Britain
So
which idiot Tory Minister though it would be a good idea to privatise the Royal
Mail? Oh, it wasn’t a Conservative Minister was it? It was a Lib Dem, Vince Cable in 2013.
Since then we have lost the second postal delivery, the latest collection time is
usually around 9 a.m., lots of postcodes only get a weekly delivery as Royal
Mail concentrates on parcels, the price of a first class stamp will have gone up
by more than 25% this year and there is a move to cease Saturday collections.
And now Abbey Wood has lost its post box.
I suppose I shouldn’t moan because I vowed never to post another letter after
the stamps I had bought for Christmas were first declared invalid from last January
(with an extension to July) and so far I have got away with it. Never yet have I
bought a new style stamp and I hope to keep it that way.
Meanwhile Royal Mail thinks it is acceptable to allow the only letter box with a late
collection to be closed off without warning.
Never mind, the Chairman gets more than half a million a year with an annual bonus taking his pay close to £700,000.
Nothing much else matters in billionaire Sunak’s Britain.
The old Post Office which couldn’t be saved is
to become yet another block of flats.
It should be noted that the Post Office and Royal Mail are entirely separate
organisations.