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81Dogs and Postal Workers
We are both bound by routine, me and the dogs. We help each other to pass the time of day.
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80Badly Addressed Mail
This is the text of a radio column I wrote for You & Yours on BBC Radio 4. The posties' knowledge beats new technology when it comes to badly addressed mail.
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68The Two-Bundle Delivery Method, as used in Canada. Is this what is next for the Royal Mail?
The two-bundle delivery method as implemented by Moya Greene in Canada. You couldn't make this stuff up. Is this what they have in mind for us too?
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80Park and Loop
This is called “park & loop”. We park up the van, fill up our trolleys, head off in two different directions, spend 40 minutes or so completing the loop, then come back to the van to drive off to the next parking spot.
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84Second Class Post
Our postal system is in chaos and this Christmas it could easily reach breaking point. A combination of demoralised staff, local sorting office closures and the introduction of new and untried working methods could easily result in millions of items simply not getting delivered by December 24th. And that, I can honestly tell you, breaks my old postie's heart.
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67Who Is Roy Mayall?
"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." Inscription on the main post office in Manhattan.
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64The Romance of the Envelope
A quilt made to highlight the plight of the Royal Mail was exhibited at the Festival of Quilts held at the NEC in Birmingham between the 19th and the 22nd of August 2010.
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82Dead Letters and Daily Responsibilities
The whole thing seems like a grand exercise in stating the obvious. They might as well add: “In order to post a letter you should push it through the letter box” and: “In order to walk up a garden path one foot should be placed in front of the other”.
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65I understand why some people vote for the BNP
Saying that doesn’t mean that I will vote for the BNP, or that I support the BNP, or that I am recommending the BNP; it simply means that I have a certain sympathy with people who are so far excluded from the political process that they feel they need to vote for an extreme party in order to make an extreme statement
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59Election machines
I saw the Labour Party for what it was: a machine for getting itself re-elected. It had no other purpose. Principles were merely decorative add-ons to it’s central aim, which was to get elected at any cost.
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